Atom netbook chip propels Intel to top of market

From InfoWorld: The success of Intel's Atom microprocessor, used mainly in netbooks, helped the chip maker gain market share in every quarter of 2008 and could carry the company this year as well.

Intel's share of the microprocessor market grew every quarter last year, market...

Palm Invites Developers to Create Apps for Pre Mobile Phone

From PC World: Palm is taking what it hopes is the next step in to make its Palm Pre a viable iPhone competitor. On Wednesday, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm opened up its Mojo Software Development Kit (SDK) program to a "broad group of developers." The Mojo SDK allows...

Microsoft's telephony software gains railroad ties

From CNET News.com: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is hoping that Microsoft's telephony software can help it replace its aging phone system. But it also hopes the software might help it replace another asset that's getting older: its workforce.

About 40 percent of the company...

ATI Launches Radeon HD 4890; Over 50,000 Already Shipped

From DailyTech: ATI, the graphics division of AMD, has launched the Radeon HD 4890 video card exclusively with 1 GB of GDDR5 RAM.

The RV790 is not just an overclocked RV770. DailyTech noticed the RV790 chip was slightly larger than the RV770 when we acquired a reference board...

Facebook CFO to Leave the Company

From PC World: Facebook's seasoned CFO will leave the company, the social-networking site confirmed Wednesday.

Gideon Yu was also a vice president. He joined Facebook in August 2007 after working for YouTube and negotiating Google's acquisition of the video-sharing site.

Facebook...

Countdown to Conficker--a bust so far

From CNET News.com: April 1, 3:27 a.m. PDT: At F-Secure, a Wednesday morning post says there's still nothing much to report, other than a few April Fools' jokes circulating on the Web:

So it's been April 1st for almost 18 hours now in New Zealand and it's the early hours of...

A Closer Look at Intel's "Nehalem"-based Xeon 5500 Series

From DailyTech: Intel has unveiled its latest Xeon series of CPUs for servers and workstations. The Xeon 5500 series was formerly codenamed Nehalem-EP (Efficient Performance), and is related to the Nehalem CPUs used in Core i7 desktops.

The 5500 series features quad core processors...

Netflix Hikes Blu-ray Rental Price by 20 Percent

From DailyTech: For many years, renting a movie meant driving to your local video store looking for the film you want to watch. Today we have several alternatives to driving to the movie store including streaming rentals and mail order rentals via Netflix and similar companies...

Microsoft Settles With TomTom in Infringement Suit

From Tom's Hardware: A few years back, Microsoft claimed that Linux violated 235 of its patents, something that has caused considerable stress in the open source community ever since. While Microsoft had yet to make significant movement on the claim, there has always been an...

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