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1. Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... e-mailed statement to TG Daily. "However, it has been widely reported that Nvidia will not be making any new chipsets for the Intel platform until our dispute with Intel is resolved." According to ...

2. Aussies reckon Apple's got a tablet e-reader

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... are for everyone. Microsoft and a number of vendors have proved that people are quite indifferent to the format. However, the rumors don't go away. And the normally reliable Sydney Morning Herald is adding ...

3. Chrome for Mac finally arrives in beta, sort of

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, but admitted he was disappointed by how long it had taken to arrive. "The timing of that has been one of the disappointments of Chrome project for me," said Brin ...

4. Office 2010 enters public beta next month

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... three key areas. One was how organizations can respond quickly to business needs with an improved developer platform that makes it easier to build rich content and collaboration applications. Another topic ...

5. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... a year back, its profitability demonstrates that investment in capital equipment is showing signs of a resurgence. ASML makes lithography equipment used by large companies in their fabs and numbers Samsung, ...

6. Windows, users, guns and stupidity

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Opinion: Our earlier story on how fast or slow Windows 7 boots and shuts down has attracted some critical acclaim and some critical unacclaim from people who obviously didn’t bother to read the story ...

7. Acting fast could cut climate change risk, says MIT

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... show what the risks are either way."  ...

8. New Apple ad for iPhone leaked to web

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   The furniture will be flying in Cupertino as Apple’s latest ad for the iPhone has somehow found its way onto the web. The furniture will be flying in Cupertino as Apple’s latest ad for the iPhone has ...

9. Tyrannosaurs 'killed by throat infection'

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... of trichomonosis in other dinosaurs. For the disease to show up so clearly, it would have had to be at a pretty advanced stage, as the parasite is typically found as a film in the back of the throat. ...

10. Apple's new Macs better be cheap

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    ... dollars, it's more likely being done at places like Wal-Mart, where PCs are sold, not Apple Stores. That's not good news for Apple, long used to its free-spending users. In Q3 Apple's SEC filings showed ...

11. Down in the Valley, the car lots are empty

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... it as the topping. We didn’t have that because it looked a bit indigestible.The message of guarded optimism was similar at Asus – it’s astonishing how big its catalog is. It’s got some cute products too ...

12. Intel Developer Forum was a bishop’s egg

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... layers here that need unpeeling.ChipsIntel showed us all a number of developments that make it entirely clear that it’s bang on course on its roadmap and nothing short of a catastrophe is going to stop ...

13. Google looking for more acquisitions

    (Software/Software Features)

    Top Googler Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said that things had started to get better at the search outfit. Schmidt said that acquisitions are "turned on again" and expects to do one small deal a month. ...

14. Intel outlines future of interactive television

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... innovative platform to showcase Flash-based applications in a vivid way," opined Wadhwani. "Flash Player 10 combined with the performance of the Intel media processor and its support for standards such ...

15. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel has managed to expand its lead in the struggling global microprocessor sector by capturing 80.6 percent of the segment's revenue during the second quarter of 2009. However, the company's traditional ...

16. Motorola aims Android phone at social network users

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... talk time is six hours, with a standby time of 13.5 days. SLIDESHOW: Motorola Cliq with MotoBlur (9 pictures) The phone features the company's new Motoblur technology which syncs contacts, ...

17. Sony marketing campaign plumbs new depths

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Consumer electronics giant Sony can surely afford to hire the sharpest brains around. How, then, do we explain the sheer Jeffdamned awfulness of its new online marketing campaign? Consumer electronics ...

18. Psystar clones Apple's Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... "new virtualization technologies" to allow its computers to interface with OS X like "never before." However, Psystar warned current customers against installing Snow Leopard until their technicians could ...

19. Japanese break wi-fi security in 60 seconds

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... break the WPA encryption used in wireless routers. The previous record stood at 15 minutes. Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University plan to reveal exactly how ...

20. Apple unlikely to launch game console before 2015

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... likely around 2015." However, Pachter did note that Club Cupertino would always be able to count on the "Apple faithful" to purchase the console, regardless of when it is launched. "The Apple faithful ...

21. Paint your house green with solar cells

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Solar cells could soon be printed like newspaper or painted onto rooftops. Austin, Texas - Solar cells could soon be printed like newspaper or painted onto rooftops. Brian Korgel, a University of ...

22. Twitter makes it harder for users to get lost

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... longitude to tweets. Users will be able to read tweets from anyone in the neighborhood, whether they follow them or not. "It's easy to imagine how this might be interesting at an event like a concert ...

23. Outlook brighter for July chip sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Even though 2009 chip sales overall will fall by around 15 percent in dollar terms, July figures due to be released soon will show overall improvement in the semiconductor market.Even though 2009 chip ...

24. Updated: Sony hopes $300 PS3 will boost sluggish sales

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... publishers alone to drive sales higher each month. Fortunately, we anticipate imminent price cuts to occur soon." However, Doug Creutz of Cowen & Co. told the Wall Street Journal that Sony had ...

25. Chip Wars: NVIDIA and ATI spar over OpenCL GPU support

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... as the CPU and GPU, to efficiently execute their application." NVIDIA, however, responded to AMD's press release by alleging that the SDK effectively "bound" GPU computing developers to the CPU. "NVIDIA ...

26. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... culture that doesn’t always seem as bright and shiny as the products it sells. So Apple’s decision to show Google’s CEO the door and kick the company’s product out of its online store marks a turning ...

27. Pachter: Console price cuts 'imminent'

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... new Xbox360 packaging appear real to us." However, the analyst noted that actual pricing had not yet been leaked and emphasized that rumors of a $299 PS3 or a $249 Xbox 360 were "merely speculation" - ...

28. Researchers identify critical iPhone security flaw

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... implemented over the AT&T network in the US. However, Miller noted that iPhone hacking attempts could be temporarily thwarted by simply rebooting the device. "It would stop all but the most sophisticated ...

29. Will Windows Mobile become extinct?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... and Microsoft programming models and middleware, it garnered a substantial share of early smart phone deployments in the enterprise, second only to Blackberry. However, over the past two years, its grasp has ...

30. Global Foundries has a fighting chance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... expertise that even Intel was forced to follow - the design of the Opteron and Athlon made the chip giant miss a step. Intel eventually turned the ship round and put AMD on the back foot. However, Global ...

31. Microsoft and Yahoo still working on pre-nup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... were Microsoft's top online executives Yusuf Mehdi, Satya Nadella, and Qi Lu.  However it seems that Redmond's capacious corporate drinks expense account has so far not been enough to make Yahoo say ...

32. iPhone "cannibalizes" sales of traditional iPods

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Q3, representing a staggering 626% growth over the year-ago quarter. Meanwhile, sales of the iPod Touch increased by an impressive 130%. However, the time of the iPod may be fading as the iPhone may ...

33. Seagate ships 40.6 million HDDs in Q2, loses $81 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Seagate reported a loss of $81 million on revenue of $2.35 billion for the second quarter of this year. However, the company said that it is seeing signs that the storage market is improving and it ...

34. Steal from my Kindle, please

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... however, Amazon has defined a new low in customer service, and in doing so has quite likely done significant damage to the Kindle brand. Boneheaded wouldn’t be an inappropriate adjective to use.Here’s ...

35. Amazon takes a page from 1984, deletes Orwell books from Kindles

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ...  the New York Times. However, Amazon now thinks that the deletions were a bad idea: “We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers’ devices in these circumstances,” ...

36. Comcast to stream HBO and Cinemax content online

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... you don’t get free access to those shows, which represent a combined 750 hours of programming initially. The added value, as Comcast claims, may be limited, especially if you get too excited over this ...

37. Steve Jobs, the unique artisan CEO

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... while Steve is back at Apple, he is only part time, and he won’t be there much longer.   What makes him truly different is his unwillingness to compromise the passion for building, and showcasing, ...

38. The Great Netbook Ripoff

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... could cost you well into four-figure territory by the time your contract is up. As always, you need to look at the numbers and ask yourself some hard questions about how you plan on using your hoped-for ...

39. 3G netbook market growing at rapid pace, iSuppli says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... various content types. However, overall wireless connectivity is still limited and somehow stuck in the early 2000s. That may change soon as “always-on” Internet connections in netbooks will be more and ...

40. Arctic thick ice disappearing at dramatic pace, NASA says

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... is continuing to decline, making the ice more vulnerable to continued shrinkage. Our data will help scientists better understand how fast the volume of Arctic ice is decreasing and how soon we might see ...

41. Google Chrome OS: Is Google finally jumping the shark?

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... how Google operates outside its core Web services competency. Still, I’m glad Google went public with this. A good jolt every once in a while keeps all players on their toes and forces them to drive ...

42. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... for three hours before I need to go home and recharge it. How long a lunch do you need? When I get home I have a more powerful Win7 box that I do most of my work on. Another couple of machines sit in ...

43. Meet your new boss: Google

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... Google’s brand. No one knows whether Chrome OS will be successful as the netbook operating system the company develops it to be. We don’t even know how such success would be defined by Google. What we ...

44. Update: Firefox 3.5 is fast, but still behind Chrome and Safari

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... tests. Firefox 3.5 RC1 trailed the two browsers in every JavaScript benchmark and has only an edge in Flash performance. So how about 3.5 final? We were not able to complete the Acid 3 web standard ...

45. IT goods, services suffer a scary drop

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... in purchases in the US tech market, ironically that is good news for the long run and we expect to see a stronger rebound sooner."  How come? He thinks the big drops won't be the harbinger of further ...

46. Bloggers share a moral code

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... how they put these into practice. Of those surveyed, about half were male and 65 percent were under 30. Most were well educated, and the majority were from the US - 65  percent - with no other country ...

47. Hard-Core Conduit placates desperate Wii fans

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... LaBeouf told BigDownload. "This is how in a simple way you can find out if it's a gamer you want to play with. Ask them if they have a Wii. If they say yes, get the f*** out of there." LeBeouf - who referred ...

48. Rockstar Games preps PSP version of GTA: Chinatown Wars

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... to play.Xbox 360 owners will also have the option of downloading The Ballad of Gay Tony this fall for $19.99 or 1600 MS points. However, players will be required to have a copy of GTA IV as well as Xbox ...

49. Bing to define Microsoft’s capability to innovate

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... in 2010 and feature a camera to recognize and track a player’s actions. However, in the same way Ballmer was avoiding Windows 7, he was focusing on Bing, which became the symbol of Microsoft’s capability ...

50. Steve Ballmer admits Microsoft’s biggest mistake

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... industry, among many others. I was shocked however, when he had a response and it was direct, up front and honest. “I would probably say I would start sooner on search,” Ballmer stated to the crowd. ...