Nothing gets the rumor mill a-churnin’ like the top PC supplier around announcing that it’s selling off its PC business. Ever since HP made the earth-shaking declaration that it was looking to spin off or sell the Personal Systems Group – i.e., the PC division – portion of its business, the web’s been wondering: who would buy it? Yesterday, DigiTimes reported that Samsung was outsourcing its notebook line to free up factory space in advance of buying HP’s PC branch. [......]
The National Music Publishers' Association has decided to drop out of a broad coalition of copyright owners that has been doing battle with YouTube since 2007. YouTube won the first round of the lawsuit last year, and the case is now being appealed; it will apparently continue without the NMPA's participation[......]
Heed this warning, privacy advocates: Facebook apps are now allowed to request access to your phone number and address, Facebook developer Jeff Bowen announced . "We are now making a user's address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object," Bowen said[......]
Bob Duffy, Intel Atom Developer Community Manager and Social Media Strategist, made an interesting observation at this year's CES. There's weren't many, if any, mouses on display. His conclusion? [......]
The first feature-reduced version of the GTX 580 arrives, rendering the GTX 480 obsolete and body-slamming the Radeon HD 5870. [......]
StarCraft II’s only been out for a day, and while everyone else in the tech world is still buried in the long campaign or the cut-throat multiplayer, our thoughts are already turning to the game’s ramifications on the hardware world. Blizzard is famous for their commitment to making games that work on a wide range of systems, and we wanted to see to what extent that’s true with StarCraft II. Toward that end, we’ve installed the game on 4 different systems. [......]
Electronics chain Best Buy this week announced the launch of its Software Installer , a connected desktop application that's supposed to help consumers customize their new or upgrade their existing PCs and netbooks with only the software and services they want. "Software Installer is really a connectivity tool, developed for those of us who want to seamlessly transform our computers or netbooks into hard-working personal productivity machines or entertainment powerhouses," said Jason Bonfig , vice president of computers at Best Buy[......]
Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang offered some interesting thoughts on the PC industry in a recent BBC interview. He said that people are no longer wowed by their computers . Huang chalked this up to a maturity in PC hardware. [......]
