REUTERS - Libyan rebels backed by allied air strikes retook the strategic town of Ajdabiyah on Saturday after an all-night battle that suggests the tide is turning against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in the east. Rebel fighters danced on tanks, waved flags and fired in the air near buildings riddled with bulletholes. Half a dozen wrecked tanks [...]
Microsoft has offered to pay $7.5m (£4.7m) for net addresses from bankrupt telecoms firm Nortel. The 666,624 IP version 4 (IPv4) net addresses were put up for auction as part of the sell-off of Nortel’s assets. Blocks of IPv4 are valuable because the pool of this generation of address is close to running dry. It [...]
Google will keep the source code for Android 3.0 ”Honeycomb” to itself for the foreseeable future, the search giant has said. BusinessWeek reported yesterday that Google had made the decision to keep Honeycomb closed-source – a first in the history of the Android platform – because it was designed for tablets and was not ready [...]
Apple released iOS 4.3.1 to users today. The software is available through the typical iTunes delivery method. The update has not been available for Verizon CDMA customers yet. The update addresses some minor bugs and performance tweaks. According to the update itself, This update contains improvements and other bug fixes including: – Fixes an occasional [...]
GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphic cards and other PC components, today launched GA-H67N-USB3-B3 motherboard, the first mini ITX solution from GIGABYTE with H67 chipset for LGA 1155 processors of Intel’s 2nd second generation (Sandy Bridge). The motherboard uses Intel’s faultless B3 stepping chipset. The 17.0 x 17.0cm sized motherboard uses Intel’s H67 chipset [...]
Lady Gaga surprised everyone this week when she announced that she’d release a country remix of her No. 1 single “Born This Way,” and now the results have officially hit the web: on “Born This Way (The Country Road Version),” Gaga croons, “If I wanna make it country, baby, it’s ok/’Cause I was born, I [...]
” Developers wanting to bring their new and existing apps to the highly anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBookTM tablet will soon have additional tools and options to enhance and expand their commercial opportunities. Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced plans to greatly expand the application ecosystem for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The BlackBerry PlayBook is scheduled to [...]
Nanowire manufacturing made much less costly Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have found a way to build crystalline semiconductor nanowires for much less cost, PhysOrg said this week. This is thanks to lowering the necessary temperature, from about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius, down to 150 degrees Celsius. Also, [...]
Micro-Star International (MSI) has outsourced the production of its own-brand 15.6-inch Sandy Bridge notebook, the CX640, to Pegatron Technology in order to shore up its profitability. MSI expects its combined shipments of notebooks and netbooks in 2011 to grow 10-15% from 2.8 million units shipped in 2010. To further lower its production costs, MSI has [...]
Folks at NoWhereElse have produced a very nice looking infographic that illustrates all the rumors and possibilities for the next-generation iPhone 5.
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