Verizon's Galaxy Nexus price: $199.99?

From CNET News.com: A holiday-themed Flash ad makes it appear that Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, the phone that's carrying Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" to market, will cost $199.99 through Verizon.

The phone has gone on sale in the United Kingdom, but has yet to appear in the United...

NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Power World's Greenest Supercomputer

From DailyTech: NVIDIA announced this week that it has the most energy efficient supercomputer capable of petaflop class performance, and that machine is powered by NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. The computer is the Tsubame 2.0 system that is in place in the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

The...

HP's Project Odyssey to Wed Itanium with Xeon Processors

From X-bit Labs: HP has announced “Odyssey”, a project that promises to redefine the future of mission-critical computing with a development roadmap that will unify Unix and x86 server architectures to bring industry-leading availability, increased performance and uncompromising...

Intel recasts Pentium chip for servers

From InfoWorld: Intel is giving new life to its Pentium processor for servers, and has started shipping the new Pentium 350 chip for low-end servers.

The dual-core processor operates at a clock speed of 1.2GHz and has 3MB of cache. Like many server chips, the Pentium 350 lacks...

Apple yanks first subscription-based game app

From CNET News.com: Despite considerable fanfare from Big Fish Games as having the first subscription-based game on the App Store, it turns out the company was breaking Apple's rules, and has since paid the price.

As picked up on by iLounge earlier, Big Fish's software called Play...

Google Axes 7 More Products in Fall Spring-Cleaning Effort

From DailyTech: Back in September, Google announced that it would be conducting a fall spring-cleaning over the coming months in order to eliminate the products that aren't providing the expected results and focus on those that are. It is now in the third phase of this cleaning...

Dell PowerEdge servers get AMD's new 16-core chips

From InfoWorld: Dell on Tuesday said it has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the just-released 16-core Opteron processors from AMD.

The company has upgraded the four-socket PowerEdge M915 blade server, which will be able to include up to 64 Opteron 6200 chip cores. The new...

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