PayPal Suspends Personal Payments to India

From PC World: PayPal, an eBay company, has suspended personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in the country.

Customers can still make commercial payments to India, but merchants cannot withdraw funds in rupees at local Indian banks, it added.

The services...

IBM launches Power7 chip, systems

From CNET News.com: IBM on Monday is launching its long-anticipated Power7 processor and systems based on the chip.

The processor is a big step for IBM, integrating eight processing cores in one chip package, with each core capable of executing four tasks--called "threads"--turning...

Linux founder endorses Google's Nexus One

From CNET News.com: Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel programming project, said Saturday not only that he likes the Google phone, but that it was good enough to convert him into a mobile phone believer.

"I generally hate phones--they are irritating and disturb you as you...

Details of Office 2007 to Office 2010 Upgrade Program Leaked

From DailyTech: Over the years, there have been many software firms and other companies that have tried to release an office productivity software suite to battle Microsoft's dominating Office application. So far, none has been successful in putting a dent in Office's market share...

RIM Making Necessary Changes as Smartphone Competition Heats Up

From DailyTech: A TD Newcrest analyst said Research In Motion is making necessary changes to keep up with rival smartphone manufacturers, as the company continues to look for new ways to increase the number of apps it offers.

Analyzing industry thoughts on the RIM BlackBerry 3G...

ATI Issues Fix for Grey Screening 5800 Series

From Tom's Hardware: Users of 5800 series cards will be glad to know that ATI has released a hotfix for intermittent grey screen and vertical line corruptions that randomly appear while watching movies, playing games or when the computer is sitting idle.

The hotfix applies to...

APH Networks Reviews: G.SKILL F3-17600CL7D-4GBPIS 2x2GB DDR3 RAM

Here's a very little known fact around APH Networks: Unless you work for the Publications Department here, you wouldn't know that article introductions are probably one of the most challenging part of each editorial. The reason why I say this -- and I've actually been the Editor-in...

Nvidia's Optimus to Combine GPU and IGP for Improved Performance

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. plans to reveal its Optimus technology on the 9th of February, 2010, X-bit labs has learnt. Even though it looks like Nvidia Optimus will be an improved version of technologies previously known as “Hybrid SLI” and “Hybrid Graphics”, in fact, Optimus will...

Intel Begins to Ship Next-Generation Itanium Processors for Revenue

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. this week announced that it had initiated shipments of the quad-core Intel Itanium processor code-named Tukwila. The chip that was delayed by years will be formally unveiled sometime in the first half of the year.

“The newest Itanium processor has begun...

Microsoft may launch new Office cloud license

From InfoWorld: Under a new license called "union, Microsoft would charge enterprises the same for software whether it is hosted on-premises or in the cloud, according to a report in SDTimes earlier this week that quoted unnamed Microsoft channel partners who had been told of the...

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