'Pragmatic' Intel seen in AMD deal
Intel's settlement with AMD avoids costly and lengthy legal battles and signals Intel looking to reduce reliance on PC and server markets, says analyst.
Qualcomm readies 3G/4G mobile chipsets
Company says it is sampling dual-mode chipsets that can switch between 3G and 4G wireless networks. Commercial products are expected next year.
Why Apple leaves low-end computers to the competition
Apple with its luxury-goods maker strategy adheres to graceful design esthetic and limits lineup keeping margins sky-high.
Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players
Players who were caught modifying their consoles to play pirated games have been booted from the popular service, InformationWeek says.
Booming gray market threatens cell phone industry
Apple iPhone's official carrier in China is enduring meager sales, just one result of the expansion of global market for copycat handsets.
Does Intel hold the edge in antitrust case?
Dramatic chip-price drops could confound antitrust complaints by New York State, AMD, and U.S. Federal Trade Commission--despite Intel's alleged payments to PC makers.
Smartphone users, keep complaining
Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a session aimed at developers at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Ceasefire in the China-Taiwan chip war?
After years of legal feuding between Taiwan's TSMC and China's SMIC, chipmakers' latest round of fighting may be coming to an end.
Apple said to be working on 'world-mode' iPhone
The AppleInsider blog says it's gotten wind of a "hybrid iPhone", due in the third quarter of 2010, that would work on both GSM and CDMA.
Barnes & Noble hit with suit over Nook
A Cupertino, Calif.-based start-up claims the bookseller misappropriated its trade secrets in its design of a similar e-reader.
Nintendo president: 'The Wii has stalled'
Satoru Iwata says top-selling console has hit a wall due to dearth of "high demand" software, and the company is now "preparing for next year".
Google: We're not making Android hardware
Rumors of a Google-developed smartphone have been circulating for years, but don't expect to see Google hardware anytime soon, according to the head of its Android project.
Creative is latest to tackle e-book readers
Maker of Zen MP3 players is said to be readying an e-book reader, tentatively named the MediaBook, that will harness videos, pictures, text, and services for a "media-rich experience".
Samsung upbeat about memory chip recovery
The company, confident it widened its gap with rivals during the downturn, expects supply of both DRAM and NAND chips to fall short of demand in 2010.
Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
Intel doesn't want to be the only one touting eensy-weensy servers aimed at Web site hosting companies. It's trying to standardize its design.
Smartbook won't replace smartphones, maybe netbooks
While consumers are unlikely to give up their phones for smartbooks, they may do so for netbooks, says industry analyst.
Intel's next-gen memory closer to reality
Intel and Numonyx announced practical advancements they believe will make phase-change memory meet its performance and capacity promise.
Xerox hopes to print computing smarts on fabric, plastic
Company says its new silver-based ink can be used to print electronic circuitry on everything from flexible e-book screens to pill bottles.
Vendors split over reuse of mobile gear
Mobile phone components can be reused in toys and even medical devices, says Sony Ericsson, but not all mobile makers are keen to venture in this direction.
Easing XP netbook owners' path to Windows 7
Microsoft plans a tool that will allow users to download Windows 7 and create a bootable USB drive that can be used to upgrade machines that lack their own DVD drive.
ARM ups speed, drops power with new chip
World's most popular processor architecture continues to push its performance while aiming for mobile Internet dominance over Intel.
Portables, China boost APAC PC market
Asia-Pacific PC market grew 18 percent to hit 23.4 million units in third quarter, boosted by government procurements in China and Taiwan, IDC finds.
RIM's vastly improved BlackBerry Storm
New touchscreen sensors on the Storm 2 make a huge difference in usability. Still, Apple needn't worry.
Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing
Carnegie Mellon researchers believe flash memory and feeble processors can do what conventional servers can't: power Internet sites at low power and low cost.
Gartner: PCs, handsets to lead electronics recovery
Analyst firm says it has seen first signs of economic recovery in the electronics industry, with mobile phone and consumer PC markets leading the way.
New Wi-Fi spec challenges Bluetooth
The specification, called Wi-Fi Direct, turns gadgets into mini access points and could hurt Bluetooth's dominance in gadget wireless connectivity.
Acer: We'll pass Dell 'very soon'
Acer's president says it expects to overtake Dell as the No. 2 PC maker, and challenge No. 1 HP too.
Nokia's netbook gamble
PC companies have already stepped on Nokia's smartphone turf, and now Nokia is taking them on in the Netbook market with the Booklet 3G.
HP tailors data center tools for Oracle apps
New templates allow companies to automatically provision and deploy Oracle applications using HP's BladeSystem Matrix all-in-one data center package.
Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array
F5100 Flash Array will deliver a low-power performance boost to transaction-heavy database operations, while cutting power usage, says Sun Microsystems.
Nokia N900 operating system gets official Qt port
Nokia has released a port of its Qt graphical toolkit to Maemo 5, so developers writing applications for the Linux OS can move them to multiple platforms.
US govt probes IBM's mainframe business
The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into IBM's mainframe business for anticompetitive behavior, according to reports.
Intel's Light Peak optical links could arrive in 2010
Intel won't promise when its optical communication technology will arrive. But a fiber-optic company allied with the chipmaker says cables will be done early in 2010.
Google: Computer memory flakier than expected
After studying most of its servers for more than two years, Google finds that computer memory failures are much more common than expected and debunks some other myths.
Samsung's Q3 earnings may herald rosy days ahead
Samsung's forecast of a record third-quarter profit attests to success of the Korean electronics maker's aggressive growth strategy during the economic slump.
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