Google previews Chrome Web Store for developers

From InfoWorld: Google this week made available a developer preview of its Chrome Web Store, which enables access to Web applications.

Developers, according to software engineer Michael Goth on the Google Chromium Blog, can upload applications and experiment with packaging and...

Micca MPLAY-HD Review (Page 1 of 4)

For those of you who don't know me as well as you should, I am very much like our Editor-in-Chief "the chc", in that I have many electronics and other gadgets lying around the house. From the latest Core i7 personal computers, the usual iPod and iPhones, all the way to HDTVs with high performance personal surround sound systems -- I won't pretend that I am not a geek at heart! However, there are one or two things I am missing...

RIAA pushes Google, Verizon for piracy crackdown

From CNET News.com: Net neutrality regulations could, if the music industry gets its way, usher in more Internet surveillance and a crackdown on suspected pirates.

This week, just about every music trade group called for broadband policies--which could include a new federal law-...

PS3 now jailbreakable via USB dongle?

From CNET News.com: A new hack is purportedly hitting the scene in a week or so that could let PS3 owners dump borrowed games onto the system's hard drive--or even an external drive--and play them. No optical discs, just straight gaming from an HD. Needless to say, this is a hack...

HP releases quarterly results, talks life after Hurd

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard announced its third-quarter financial results on Thursday and insisted it was "looking forward, not back" following the surprise departure two weeks ago of Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd.

Cathie Lesjak, HP's CFO who was also made interim CEO after Hurd's...

AMD Slashes Prices on Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has lowered the prices on its desktop-class microprocessors. The decrease is less than intangible.

Based on the new price-list of AMD, which quotes prices for customers getting 1000+ central processing units (CPUs), the Sunnyvale, California...

Intel to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion

From CNET News.com: Intel announced Wednesday that it plans to buy security company McAfee for approximately $7.68 billion.

The chipmaker says it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee's common stock at $48 per share in cash. The boards of both companies have...

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