Arm targets laptops to protect its mobile phone turf from Intel

From InfoWorld: ARM Holdings is positioning its chips as the main processors in the low-end laptop market, but does not expect these chips to account for a significant part of its revenue, an executive said on Friday.

It decided to enter this market mainly to counter Intel's moves...

Brace Yourself: Microsoft Readies Record-Setting Patch Tuesday

From PC World: Microsoft says it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix flaws in every version of Windows, as well as Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, important developer tools and the enterprise-grade Forefront Security client software...

Levinson quits Google's board

From CNET News.com: Arthur Levinson, former chairman of Genentech, has resigned from Google's board of directors, effective immediately, Google said Monday. A member of Google's board since 2004, Levinson has also served on Apple's board since 2000.

In early August, Google CEO Eric...

Microsoft wants multicore boost from Windows 7

From CNET News.com: Microsoft is one of the companies that feels the pressure to most acutely when it comes to putting those cores to work. Though it doesn't pretend to have the problem licked, Microsoft does believe Windows 7 provides a better foundation for using multicore systems...

Print Book Business Faces Digital Transition

From DailyTech: When the internet first started to reach mainstream usage, traditional print companies didn’t think much of the new medium. These days, however, many traditional print publications are finding that combating the free content available online is an increasingly...

Sony Unveils Vaio X, Vaio CW Laptops

From PC World: Sony has unveiled the official specs for its super-slim Sony Vaio X series laptops, which the company was showing off last month at the IFA trade show in Berlin. The specs are pretty close to what was predicted, but there are a few surprises--including a lower-than...

Report details AT&T wait to break even on iPhones

From CNET News.com: With its large subsidies to Apple, AT&T doesn't break even on iPhone accounts with high data-usage until the 17th month of a 24-month contract, according to a new report from Yankee Group.

The report, titled "The Golden Subsidy Egg's Goose is Cooked: Welcome to...

Google Books is About Readers, Sergey Brin Says

From PC World: Google cofounder Sergey Brin has some choice words for Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, and anyone else who opposes the into e-books: Back off, we're trying to help the readers.

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Brin challenges some of the arguments critics have raised...

Nvidia in the throes of remaking itself

From CNET News.com: As graphics kingpin Nvidia tries to reshape itself into a broad-based computing company, it is taking big gambles with potentially big payoffs, while it fends off challenges from rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

The world's largest supplier of standalone...

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