Advanced Micro Devices Inc ships a lower-power version of its Opteron server chip on Monday as it tries to expand its offerings for Web hosting companies. The company declined to give its projections for revenues from the new chip.
AMD said the new chip is aimed at companies that use servers for tasks like cloud computing, and [...]

Facebook agreed on Thursday to give its worldwide users better protection over their personal information as the result of negotiations with Canada’s privacy commissioner.
The changes will give users of the social networking website more transparency and control over the information they provide to third-party developers of applications such as games and quizzes, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer [...]

Having your browser, iTunes, IM, TweetDeck, Word, Skype, Photoshop, video editing tools, folders, and more open at the same time…well, it just takes up a lot of screen real estate. On a 15.4? laptop, you can only fit so much before your screen is piled with program after program.
gScreen, an Alaska-based notebook designer and manufacturer, aims to solve [...]

Picture this. You’re the world’s second largest mobile phone manufacturer and do not have one Mobile OS of your own. Not a very impressive thing to have on your CV, right? Samsung is facing the same problem as we type this. It does not have its very own smartphone OS and looks like it has finally [...]

Sony has just outed a new speaker-packing Walkman that will either be music to your ears, or the bane of your commute to work.The S540 Series has two integrated stereo speakers hidden inside the MP3 player’s 10.2mm thin shell, that will blast out your music to all the lucky people sitting around you. Just make [...]

We heard about the new Facebook 3.0 iPhone update a few weeks ago, and after Apple taking its time in approving it, it’s now available from the App Store.Even better news is that the app is now even better than the first one that was submitted.After submitting it, developer Joe Hewitt started tinkering with the [...]

If you’ve resisted the iPhone 3G S and HTC’s Hero, preferring to hold out for Palm Pre your wait may be over at the end of October.
Rumours circling the internet are suggesting the highly-anticipated handset (and rumoured iPhone killer) is set to hit UK shelves on Friday 30 October.O2 managers have been given the date by head [...]

So the Apple Mac tablet has more or less been confirmed by Jobs, and the rumours are still coming thick and fast – the latest that we can expect 13- and 15-inch models alongside the 10-inch tablet we’ve heard so much about.Gizmodo got the news from a source, who it says has always been “100% reliable”, [...]

Every few weeks, we hear a buzz from some corner of the Web that Nokia is going to launch an Android-based phone. Well, at the Nokia press event on Thursday, the company flatly denied going in any such direction.
Senior officials said that the company is completely committed to Maemo at the moment, hinting at the [...]

It has been a move expected by the gaming fraternity, and now an advert dug out by Kotaku in the States shows what appears to be an Xbox 360 Elite price cut from $399 to $299 set to hit on 30 August.This would bring the price of Microsoft’s console in line with Sony’s forthcoming PS3 Slim, [...]

Sony’s new line of Alpha DSLRs appear to have fallen short of their expected launch date of 28 August, after three new models have found their way on to the internet.German site digitalkamera.de has outed both the Sony a850 and a500 after a tip off, the former set to be a small full-frame entry level DSLR [...]

We’d heard whispers about it before but the Nokia Booklet 3G, Nokia’s first netbook has just been unwrapped. The 10-in Nokia Booklet 3G will feature 3G (as the name suggests) as well as HSDPA and WiFi. It’s powered by an Intel Atom processor and weighs in at 1.25kg. The smooth aluminium shell of the Nokia Booklet 3G also [...]

Apple’s latest beast based operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, will be available earlier than expected. This Friday, August 28, in fact. Rather than filling the operating system with fistfuls of new features, Apple says its worked on the architecture of OS X to make it quicker, lighter and neater. Mac OS X Snow Leopard will [...]

Steve Jobs’ legendary eye for detail has led to two Apple Mac Tablet designsbeing scrapped. According to the Wall Street Journal, Jobs just wasn’t happy with the finalised versions and shelved them.  The first Apple Mac Tablet was binned because of poor battery life while the second attempt was killed due to a lack of memory. [...]

Samsung is holding a Widget Developer Camp from Sept. 11-13
If you have been a lover of Samsung’s TouchWiz interface seen on most of its high end phones,  rejoice! Samsung has announced the availability of its Mobile Widget SDK, which means that the UI is now open to third parties who can develop widgets for it.
Samsung’s TouchWiz [...]