Memory Woes May Hurt Chip Tool Makers Worse Than Expected

From PC World: A memory chip glut this year has already caused companies to curtail orders of new production line machinery, but the lack of any sign of a rebound has caused at least one industry watcher to rethink its chip equipment forecast.

Semiconductor Equipment and Materials...

Smartphone shipments ease off the gas pedal

From CNET News.com: Smartphone sales slowed a bit in the second quarter amid a weak global economy, but Gartner thinks that's about to change.

The worldwide market for smartphones grew 15.7 percent in the second quarter, as vendors shipped a total of 32.2 million devices. That's...

HP Claims EliteBook will Run 24 Hours on a Single Charge

From DailyTech: HP made an announcement today that should help solve mobile warriors’ biggest enemy -- battery life. HP says that its EliteBook 6930p when configured with an optional ultra-capacity battery and other options will run for a full 24 hours on a single charge.

HP says...

Critical vulnerability patched in Google's Chrome

From InfoWorld: A Vietnamese security company has found a critical vulnerability in Google's new browser Chrome, but Google has already released patch for that problem and at least one more.

The vulnerability is one of several problems identified in the browser since it was...

Intel's New SSD Drive Delivers Blazing Fast Performance

From PC World: Finally, a solid-state drive arrives that can capitalize on the theoretical advantages solid-state memory offers as compared with hard disk drives. Intel isn't new to SSD, but it is looking to reinvent the rule book with is latest--and most mainstream--entry to the...

Google upgrades Gmail for IE 6 users

From CNET News.com:

There's a lot of action in the browser market these days: Google just launched its Chrome browser, Firefox 3.1 is due in months, Apple hopes Safari will spread across the world of Windows, and Microsoft is touting its second beta of Internet Explorer 8.

But a...

Amazon to Sell Low-Cost XO

From DailyTech: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) will sell its low-cost XO notebook to interested consumers through Amazon.com, an OLPC official announced. The original plan behind the XO was to make the laptop available to children in developing nations and not to interested parties in...

APH Networks Reviews: TAO 1.4" Square, TAO 1.5" Polished Silver

There's something that I always look for in regards to the main keychain that goes with my primary set of keys -- for one thing, it must be of a certain size and weight. If it's not 'this size' or 'weighs at least this much', then it won't act as the main unit. Since my car's keyless...

Details finally due from AMD on "fab-lite"

From EETimes: AMD could announce later this month a significant advance towards its long-touted fab-lite strategy that involves spinning out its Dresden, Germany fabs in a deal that includes an investment from a middle-East group to form a new company. According to reports in the...

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