Intel boosts outlook for third quarter

From CNET News.com: Intel on Friday raised its guidance for third-quarter revenue, citing stronger-than-expected demand for microprocessors and chipsets.

Revenue is now expected to be $8.8 billion to $9.2 billion, compared to the previous guidance of $8.1 billion to $8.9 billion...

Enterprise SSD Prices Drop by a Third with OCZ's Agility EX Series

From DailyTech: The prices of Solid State Drives using Multi-Level Cell NAND flash have dropped a lot recently. This is mostly due to Intel incorporating flash memory using 34nm technology in its newest generation of X25-M SSDs. This process was first introduced late last year by IM...

Asustek Rumoured to Sell a Stake in Pegatron

From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer is again rumoured to sell a stake in its contract maker of electronics called Pegatron. The move would allow the latter to become more financially powerful and potentially get other advantages. However, Asustek denies any of such plans.

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Report: Tablet is Apple's third try, Jobs' top interest

From InfoWorld: Word that Steve Jobs is now hard at work on an Apple tablet, which he reportedly deep-sixed twice in the past, may be good news for the tablet and bad news for its delivery date.

Or maybe this is just a bit of Apple propaganda, passed to us by the Wall Street Journal...

Tiger Users Can Get a Cheap Upgrade to Snow Leopard

From PC World: Still using Tiger, the older version of Mac OSX? You may be able to cheat Apple and pay only $29 to upgrade to the latest Snow Leopard operating system, says Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal.

Tiger, which was launched in 2005, was Apple's longest-running...

Microsoft drops price of Xbox 360 Elite, kills Pro

From CNET News.com: On the heels of Sony reducing the price of its PlayStation 3 and announcing the PlayStation 3 Slim, Microsoft announced Thursday that it too will be dropping the price of its console.

Starting Friday, the Xbox 360 Elite will be priced at $299, $100 cheaper than...

Snow Leopard could level security playing field

From CNET News.com: Friday's release of the new version of the Mac OS, dubbed Snow Leopard, could include some security features that would make it secure, or at least push it closer to the level of security that Vista and Windows 7 have, experts said this week.

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Nokia to Unveil Smartphone Running Maemo

From DailyTech: The smartphone market is very hot right now with some of the most popular devices selling very well despite the poor economy. Nokia is struggling to compete in the high-end market and is looking to a new operating system to help it get ahead of the competition...

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