Bringing to a close an investigation that began in January 2007 , the South Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC), has concluded there is no evidence of collusion to fix prices in the NAND flash memory industry. The FTC was investigating the world’s four largest manufacturers of NAND flash memory: two in South Korea, one in Japan, and one in the United States[......]
Archive for January, 2010
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews In an historic public response to the US Federal Communications Commission's request for comments regarding its forthcoming National Broadband Plan, due before Congress on February 17, AT&T acknowledged not the forthcoming obsolescence, but the current obsolescence of the wireline telephone system[......]
Acer has announced its move into the Pine Trail market : the Aspire One AO532h. And while it wasn’t first, it so far is the cheapest with a $299 price tag. As netbooks go, this new Aspire One isn’t all that different from its predecessors, save for it sporting an Intel Atom N450 CPU, GMA 1350 graphics, and a promised 10-hours of battery life[......]
Taiwanese chip designer Richtek Technology said Wednesday it has filed a patent infringement complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against several companies, including uPI Semiconductor, AMD, Sapphire Technology, Diamond Multimedia, and XFX. [......]
Happy New Year! Well, almost. Before I can raise my glass and tip my columnist's hat to the one-year birthday of the Freeware Files (and Murphy's Law), it's time we get down to the time-honored tech tradition at this time of year: the awards list. Unlike my brethren at Maximum PC, who have put together a fine list of general freeware applications that you should check out regardless of the time, I've sat down and gone through the hundreds of apps and utilities that I've covered throughout this year[......]
Pre and the webOS have brought about Palm's revival. Now that it is back in the hunt, it can comfortably concentrate on growth. It now features nearly 950 titles and is expected to cross the 1,000 app mark after Palm's CES keynote. [......]
We're still not ready to declare e-book readers the second coming of netbooks (in terms of popularity), but there's no doubt the fad is taking off. And in 2010, demand for larger screen e-book readers measuring 9.7 inches is expected to soar up to 320 percent on year, says Digitimes Research. Impressive[......]
There's been a bit of a disagreement in the security community over how serious a recently discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) really is. On one hand, the researcher who discovered the bug labeled it as "highly critical," while at least one other security firm showed far less concern[......]
