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News Archive for April 2011
- News Corp. wants to sell Myspace for $100 million
April 30, 2011 - Google's Android now has more free apps than Apple's iPhone
April 30, 2011 - Logitech sees Google TV sales plummet to just $5 million
April 29, 2011 - Sony faces class action lawsuit for PSN fiasco
April 29, 2011 - TomTom apologizes for helping police catch speeders
April 29, 2011 - Canonical releases Ubuntu 11.04
April 29, 2011 - Weekend game deals: Rift $29.95
April 29, 2011 - Is Amazon starting a price war with Apple?
April 29, 2011 - T-Mobile: $1,000 says the Galaxy S 4G is faster than your iPhone
April 29, 2011 - Weekend Open Forum: The most 'evil' tech company?
April 30, 2011 - Acer, Samsung Chrome OS laptop details emerge
April 29, 2011 - Intel Solid State Drive 510 Series 120GB Review
April 29, 2011 - Mozilla developers working on Firefox graphics, JavaScript
April 29, 2011 - Microsoft's 3Q earnings rise 31%, but Windows sales down
April 29, 2011 - Redbox to offer $2 per day videogame rentals in June
April 29, 2011 - Apple may have bought iCloud domain for $4.5 million
April 29, 2011 - Google announces voice, video chat for Android 2.3
April 29, 2011 - Intel SSD roadmap shows five new drives coming in 2011
April 28, 2011 - AMD adds Nvidia SLI support to its chipsets
April 28, 2011 - Panasonic to cut 17,000 jobs, close 70 factories
April 28, 2011 - Sony: Some PSN user data was unencrypted
April 28, 2011 - AMD rebrands Radeon HD 5700 series as 6700
April 28, 2011 - Valve to release Portal 2 DLC this summer
April 28, 2011 - GeoHot denies involvement in PlayStation Network hack attack
April 28, 2011 - Nokia CEO: we're in no hurry to join the tablet market
April 28, 2011 - Acer launches all-in-one PC with Kinect-like media controls
April 28, 2011 - YouTube founders buy Delicious from Yahoo
April 28, 2011 - Intel readies 20GB SSD for caching function on Z68 boards
April 28, 2011 - BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Reviewed: Hot or Not?
April 28, 2011 - Neowin review: Samsung Droid Charge 4G
April 28, 2011 - Google forms patent licensing initiative for WebM
April 28, 2011 - DirecTV considering taking on Netflix
April 28, 2011 - Google releases Google Docs app for Android
April 27, 2011 - Hulu Plus may be coming to Xbox 360 this Friday (update: confirmed)
April 27, 2011 - Belkin offers new routers from $40 to $130
April 27, 2011 - Walmart partners with iBuyPower to offer custom desktops
April 27, 2011 - Windows 8 user accounts to get roaming options?
April 27, 2011 - Rogers to bring 150Mbps LTE to four Canadian cities this year
April 27, 2011 - MSI intros GX780 gaming notebook with SteelSeries keyboard
April 27, 2011 - Catalyst 11.4 drivers bring 15% more speed in Black Ops
April 27, 2011 - Google releases stable version of Chrome 11
April 27, 2011 - Spotify: still no specific US launch date other than "this year"
April 27, 2011 - Nokia to cut thousands of jobs, outsource Symbian OS
April 27, 2011 - Sony teases 'Freestyle Hybrid PC' tablet, ultra-thin laptop
April 27, 2011 - Report: Llano to account for 40% of AMD's shipments in Q3
April 27, 2011 - Sony PSN offline until next week, user accounts compromised
April 26, 2011 - Qualcomm: new Snapdragon is 23% faster than Cortex-A15
April 26, 2011 - Amazon to Apple: the term "app store" is generic
April 26, 2011 - Apple CEO: iOS doesn't track your location, Android does!
April 26, 2011 - Last typewriter factory in the world shuts down
April 26, 2011 - Tuesday tech deals: Free $30 refill card with prepaid T-Mobile phones
April 26, 2011 - Asus Eee Pad Transformer arrives in the US; already sold out
April 26, 2011 - YouTube getting ready to launch Hollywood movie rentals
April 26, 2011 - Netgear offers N750 wireless dual band gigabit router for $180
April 26, 2011 - Facebook testing deals program to rival Groupon and Google
April 26, 2011 - Apple, Google and others questioned on data tracking
April 26, 2011 - Windows 8 Build 7955: new features surface
April 26, 2011 - Sony unveils two Android-based tablets, the S1 and S2
April 26, 2011 - HIS Radeon HD 6850 IceQ X & Radeon HD 6870 IceQ X Turbo Crossfire Graphics Cards Reviewed
April 26, 2011 - FBI raids SAG member's home for uploading five movies
April 26, 2011 - Apple readying iMac, MacBook Air Sandy Bridge refreshes
April 25, 2011 - Netflix ties Comcast for subscribers, downplays cord cutting
April 25, 2011 - HP EliteBook 2560p, 2760p laptop specs leaked
April 25, 2011 - Acer replaces 500,000 netbook orders with tablets
April 25, 2011 - Zotac preps custom GTX 580, GTX 560 rumored for May 17
April 25, 2011 - Alleged Dell roadmap reveals Streak Pro, Latitude tablets
April 25, 2011 - Nook Color update adds apps, email, Flash and more
April 25, 2011 - Nvidia Optimus technology to arrive for desktops as Synergy
April 25, 2011 - Lenovo readies ultrathin ThinkPad X1, ThinkPad tablet
April 25, 2011 - Nintendo confirms Wii sucessor coming in 2012
April 25, 2011 - RIM wants Hulu Plus on the BlackBerry PlayBook
April 24, 2011 - Weekend tech reading: New discovery in tracing IP addresses
April 24, 2011 - Crytek: Crysis 2 editor this summer, CryEngine SDK in August
April 24, 2011 - Video: Windows 8 to include a webcam application?
April 23, 2011 - Google backpedals: offers Google Videos to YouTube transfer option
April 23, 2011 - Son of antivirus maker Kaspersky reportedly kidnapped, released safely
April 22, 2011 - Weekend Open Forum: Your biggest tech failures
April 22, 2011 - MSI's CX640MX is heaven for righties, hell for lefties
April 22, 2011 - US Army developing Android-based smartphone framework, apps
April 22, 2011 - NSA wants to build $896.5 million supercomputing center
April 22, 2011 - Google may partner with Spotify for Google Music
April 22, 2011 - Weekend game deals: Metro 2033 for $4.99
April 22, 2011 - Amazon updates Kindle for Android to work on tablets
April 22, 2011 - Microsoft: 350 million Windows 7 licenses sold in 18 months
April 22, 2011 - Google Voice integration on Sprint already rolling out
April 22, 2011 - Google Offers beta kicks off, sets its sights on Groupon
April 22, 2011 - Razer announces its Hydra motion sensing PC controller
April 22, 2011 - Samsung fires back at Apple with patent infringement lawsuit
April 22, 2011 - Everything You Need to Know About NFC
April 22, 2011 - Apple preparing to launch cloud-based music service
April 21, 2011 - Customer sues Best Buy for breaking the law, gets banned
April 21, 2011 - Microsoft's Windows XP countdown gadget doesn't work on XP
April 21, 2011 - Ashampoo suffers attack, user data compromised
April 21, 2011 - Yahoo to retain search data for 18 months
April 21, 2011 - The UK gets the Samsung Galaxy S II early, for £499
April 21, 2011 - HTC Sensation 4G to be released on 6/8
April 21, 2011 - Microsoft, Nokia finally sign definitive agreement for Windows Phone
April 21, 2011 - Rumor: Samsung to build an Android tablet for Amazon
April 21, 2011 - Asus Eee Pad Transformer hits U.S. on April 26 for $399
April 21, 2011 - Microsoft Vulnerability Research discovers two Chrome flaws
April 21, 2011 - SanDisk and Toshiba announce 19nm NAND flash memory
April 21, 2011 - Another record quarter for Apple, profit up 95% from last year
April 21, 2011 - Hulu has already blocked the BlackBerry PlayBook
April 21, 2011 - Portal 2 faces backlash over paid DLC, short campaign
April 20, 2011 - Rumor: Chrome OS devices to be sold as a subscription
April 20, 2011 - Apple tracks your location in iOS 4, without your permission
April 20, 2011 - Intel CEO: we're porting Android 3.0 to x86
April 20, 2011 - id Software releases new Rage footage, multiplayer details
April 20, 2011 - Twitter launches new homepage
April 20, 2011 - Sony to discontinue the PSP Go
April 20, 2011 - Amazon announces Library Lending for Kindle devices, Kindle apps
April 20, 2011 - Reuters: iPhone 5 production in July, ships in September
April 20, 2011 - Download of the Week: uTorrent 3.0 beta
April 20, 2011 - Intel posts record revenue of $12.8 billion, 29% profit boost
April 20, 2011 - Acer splits in two, cuts sales forecast
April 19, 2011 - Google starts converting YouTube videos to WebM
April 20, 2011 - LibreOffice will remain separate from OpenOffice
April 19, 2011 - $30 movie rentals coming to DirecTV later this week
April 19, 2011 - Dell launches new Alienware M11x, M14x and M18x laptops
April 19, 2011 - Dish takes over 500 Blockbuster locations
April 19, 2011 - Sprint to pay $1 billion to use Clearwire's 4G network through 2012
April 19, 2011 - Tuesday tech deals: Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Blu-ray $20
April 19, 2011 - Google launches Map Maker in the US
April 19, 2011 - Hitachi announces first USB 3.0 external drives
April 19, 2011 - Google puts $100 million into world's largest wind power farm
April 19, 2011 - Neowin: Portal 2 Review
April 19, 2011 - Seagate agrees to buy Samsung's HDD unit in $1.4 billion deal
April 19, 2011 - LG Optimus Pad / T-Mobile G-Slate Android Tablet Review
April 19, 2011 - AMD launches two more sub-$100 Radeons, 6670 and 6570
April 19, 2011 - DVDs, Blu-rays still more popular than streaming
April 19, 2011 - Xigmatek unveils its largest desktop chassis, Elysium
April 18, 2011 - Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy phones, tablets
April 18, 2011 - PDF redaction fail: UK's nuclear submarine secrets unveiled
April 18, 2011 - Nvidia releases WHQL-certified 270.61 GeForce drivers
April 18, 2011 - Yahoo to kill Buzz later this week
April 18, 2011 - GeoHot donates funds for Sony’s PS3 hacking lawsuit to EFF
April 18, 2011 - Rumor: Samsung to offer a dual-core 2GHz smartphone in 2012
April 18, 2011 - Leaked: Windows 8 Task Manager screenshot
April 18, 2011 - Microsoft announces public beta of Office 365
April 18, 2011 - AMD to release C-60 netbook chip with Turbo Core?
April 18, 2011 - Report: Samsung to sell HDD business, Seagate interested
April 18, 2011 - Obama complains about his phone, Microsoft offers him a WP7 device
April 18, 2011 - Weekend tech reading: US gov't reveals plan for Internet ID
April 17, 2011 - IANA adds .xxx domains to root servers
April 18, 2011 - Google Videos shutting down later this month
April 17, 2011 - Video: HTC readying Windows Phone 7 with 16MP camera?
April 17, 2011 - Windows 8 "Hybrid Boot" feature uncovered
April 17, 2011 - Happy Birthday: FTP turns 40 today
April 16, 2011 - Weekend Open Forum: Storage capacity in your main rig?
April 15, 2011 - Oracle to give OpenOffice.org back to the community
April 16, 2011 - Google Music may see more delays: talks with labels "going backwards"
April 15, 2011 - Nintendo of America sold 400,000 3DS systems in first week
April 15, 2011 - Weekend game deals: 62% off Portal 2 + The Potato Sack
April 15, 2011 - Windows 8's Portable Workspace: run Windows off a USB device
April 15, 2011 - LG picks up Meego as Nokia backs away
April 15, 2011 - Android, iOS captured 8% of US video game market in 2010
April 15, 2011 - AV Test certifies 17 out of 22 security suites for Windows 7
April 15, 2011 - E-book sales tripled in 2010
April 15, 2011 - Download of the Week: Droplr and WinDroplr
April 15, 2011 - Intel P67 Motherboard 5-Way Shootout
April 15, 2011 - Mozilla kicks off faster Firefox release schedule with Aurora
April 15, 2011 - Report: Intel to push Atom-based tablets with subsidies
April 15, 2011 - Google: 3 billion installed apps on Android
April 14, 2011 - Google launches YouTube Copyright School for copyright offenders
April 14, 2011 - Mionix unveils Zibal 60 backlit mechanical gaming keyboard
April 14, 2011 - Hackers gain root access to WordPress servers
April 14, 2011 - IE10 will only work on Windows 7 and up, no Vista support
April 14, 2011 - Intel to support USB 3.0 in 2012, despite Thunderbolt
April 14, 2011 - Comcast launches 105Mb/s Internet tier for $105
April 14, 2011 - Intel, Micron announce 20nm 8GB NAND flash chips
April 14, 2011 - Rumor: Nokia’s first Windows Phones will be W7, W8
April 14, 2011 - Leaked: Windows 8 build 7955 video
April 14, 2011 - Microsoft adds Kinect support for Netflix
April 14, 2011 - Spotify sets 10 hour per month limit on free music streaming
April 14, 2011 - White iPhone 4 coming by end of April
April 14, 2011 - IDC and Gartner reports show weakened demand for PCs
April 14, 2011 - OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD Review
April 14, 2011 - First BlackBerry PlayBook reviews hit the web
April 14, 2011 - Garry's Mod developer exposes pirates with fake error
April 13, 2011 - Toshiba intros self-encrypting, auto-erasing hard drives
April 14, 2011 - AMD announces Fusion chipsets with USB 3.0 support
April 13, 2011 - Kinect SDK sign up available, public beta coming this spring
April 13, 2011 - Blizzard announces tickets for BlizzCon 2011, from $40 to $500
April 13, 2011 - World Wide Web inventor: Internet access is now a human right
April 13, 2011 - Lenovo to ship a 23-inch tablet this year? Update: nope.
April 13, 2011 - Microsoft releases Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1
April 13, 2011 - Intel to release Thunderbolt developer kit this quarter
April 13, 2011 - Nvidia quietly releases GeForce GT 520 card
April 13, 2011 - Google Docs gets pagination, native printing in Chrome
April 13, 2011 - Hack lets you unlock your iPhone without jailbreaking it
April 13, 2011 - Humble Frozenbyte Bundle: Name your price for five indie games
April 12, 2011 - Cisco to kill Flip Video, lay off 550 employees
April 13, 2011 - Flock browser has been killed off
April 12, 2011 - Tuesday tech deals: $230 off Pavilion dv6t with quad-core i7
April 12, 2011 - Toshiba launches new Tecra, Portégé business notebooks
April 12, 2011 - Microsoft releases IE10 Platform Preview 1
April 12, 2011 - HTC Sensation 4G announced with Android 2.3
April 12, 2011 - Leaked: Windows 8 build 7850
April 12, 2011 - Rumor: Intel has designed a phone for China
April 12, 2011 - Leaked Intel slides reveal Sandy Bridge-E, Ivy Bridge details
April 12, 2011 - Google invests $168 million in solar energy project
April 12, 2011 - Zune Pass: Microsoft's answer to piracy
April 12, 2011 - Amazon introduces cheaper, ad-supported Kindle
April 12, 2011 - Rumor: iPhone 5 production starting in September, cheaper iPhone model coming
April 12, 2011 - Stealth intros ultra-compact "Little PC" with Core i7
April 11, 2011 - Acer changes its logo, again
April 12, 2011 - GeoHot joins Anonymous' boycott of Sony, asks you to come along
April 11, 2011 - SilverStone launches $140 mid-tower Raven RV03
April 11, 2011 - Acer Iconia W500 debuts for $550 with Windows 7, Fusion
April 11, 2011 - Sony and GeoHot settle over PS3 hacking lawsuit
April 11, 2011 - Intel's Oak Trail platform launches, Cedar Trail to follow
April 11, 2011 - In 2015: iOS still first for tablets, Android second, BlackBerry third
April 11, 2011 - Samsung Galaxy S II coming to the UK on May 1, 2011
April 11, 2011 - Sony: Nintendo makes "babysitting tools," Microsoft's motion gaming "is cute"
April 11, 2011 - Hacker finds Apple AirPlay private key, offers AirPort Express emulator
April 11, 2011 - HTC's 7-inch Flyer tablet up for pre-order in the U.K.
April 11, 2011 - Adobe unveils Creative Suite 5.5 with subscription options
April 11, 2011 - Google buys mobile music startup PushLife for $25 million
April 11, 2011 - Touch Mouse 3-Way Roundup
April 11, 2011 - Google abandons Street View in Germany
April 10, 2011 - Weekend tech reading: Intel set to expand Sandy Bridge line
April 10, 2011 - Groklaw: we're shutting down because Linux has won
April 10, 2011 - Google survey: gaming is the most popular use for tablets
April 9, 2011 - StumbleUpon passes 1 billion monthly page views
April 9, 2011 - Rumor: AMD hiring to add Android support
April 8, 2011 - Weekend Open Forum: Your desktop's looks
April 8, 2011 - Analyst: Apple controls 60% of touchscreen supply
April 8, 2011 - Gamers are less likely to go to university, but will still be employed
April 8, 2011 - Weekend game deals: Mass Effect 2, Bad Company 2 $11.97
April 8, 2011 - Steve Wozniak would consider returning to Apple
April 8, 2011 - Windows 8 to get native SmartScreen file checking
April 8, 2011 - Google entering live streaming business with YouTube Live
April 8, 2011 - Minecraft officially launching on 11/11/11
April 8, 2011 - Opera launches new webmail service, My Opera Mail
April 8, 2011 - AMD: The Radeon HD 6790 can't be unlocked
April 8, 2011 - Microsoft's upcoming Patch Tuesday will fix 64 flaws
April 8, 2011 - GameStop considering creating a gaming tablet
April 8, 2011 - 10.1" Acer Iconia Tab A500 hits Best Buy for $450
April 8, 2011 - Internet processed 9.57 zettabytes of information in 2008
April 7, 2011 - Asus refreshes 15.6" Lamborghini VX7 gaming notebook
April 7, 2011 - Déjà vu: Android first, Windows Phone second, iOS third in 2015
April 7, 2011 - Mozilla: Firefox 5 coming on June 21, Firefox 6 on August 18
April 7, 2011 - SFW or NSFW? Software firm hiring only naked web coders
April 7, 2011 - Google building a tablet version of Chrome OS
April 7, 2011 - Google to spend $100 million on original content for YouTube
April 7, 2011 - Toshiba unveils SmartNAND memory with embedded ECC
April 7, 2011 - AMD launches sub-$60 Radeon HD 6450 graphics card
April 7, 2011 - Apple reportedly ordered 12 petabytes of video storage for iTunes cloud
April 7, 2011 - HTC passes Nokia in market cap, now at $33.9 billion
April 7, 2011 - DARPA asks gamers to test submarine-tracking simulator
April 7, 2011 - ESET dissects the anatomy of a phishing attack
April 6, 2011 - Acer launches new Timeline X notebooks with Sandy Bridge
April 6, 2011 - Twitter improves search: three times faster
April 6, 2011 - iPhone 4 drops more calls on AT&T than on Verizon
April 6, 2011 - Mono for Android released, lets .NET developers build Android apps
April 6, 2011 - Google kicks Grooveshark out of the Android Market
April 6, 2011 - Leaked: Android Music 3.0 app with cloud streaming
April 6, 2011 - Dish buys bankrupt Blockbuster for $228 million in cash
April 6, 2011 - Top Budget to Mainstream Graphics Cards
April 6, 2011 - Linux Foundation: bashing Microsoft now is "like kicking a puppy"
April 6, 2011 - Users with newer IE versions more likely to use Bing, especially for IE9
April 6, 2011 - Alienware M14x packs quad-core Sandy Bridge, GT 555M
April 5, 2011 - Seagate ships pencil-thick GoFlex Slim external hard drive
April 5, 2011 - Intel launches 10-core Xeon E7 server processors
April 5, 2011 - Tuesday tech deals: Logitech Z523 2.1 speakers for $50
April 5, 2011 - Amazon crowned the most reputable company in the US
April 5, 2011 - Microsoft: Silverlight 5 beta next week, focus is still on HTML5
April 5, 2011 - Consumer Reports: iPad 2 is rated the highest tablet
April 5, 2011 - Apple co-founder: tablets are PCs for "normal people"
April 5, 2011 - Music, movie, and software piracy is a market failure, not a legal failure
April 5, 2011 - Sony denies NGP delay, PSN raises $1.3 million for Japan
April 5, 2011 - Thermaltake Level 10 GT Case Review
April 5, 2011 - AMD starts shipping 32nm 'Llano' APUs to OEM partners
April 5, 2011 - AMD releases Radeon HD 6790 for $150
April 5, 2011 - AppX: Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to run the same apps?
April 5, 2011 - Windows 8 to include its own PDF reader
April 5, 2011 - Texas Instruments to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5b
April 4, 2011 - Researchers convert Google's Gmail Motion joke into reality with Microsoft Kinect
April 4, 2011 - Battlefield 3 slated for release on November 2?
April 4, 2011 - Crucial M4 SSDs get mainstream pricing
April 4, 2011 - Anonymous attacks Sony PlayStation website in support of GeoHot
April 4, 2011 - Dell launches ultraportable Inspiron notebook with Fusion
April 4, 2011 - Larry Page takes over as Google's CEO
April 4, 2011 - Sony's PlayStation tablet coming this year
April 4, 2011 - Blockbuster being auctioned off today
April 4, 2011 - Nintendo refuses to make a gaming phone
April 4, 2011 - Acer Iconia Tab A100 gets price, release date in the U.K.
April 4, 2011 - USB 3.0 64GB Flash Drive Round-up
April 4, 2011 - Mozilla cracks down on slow starting Firefox add-ons
April 4, 2011 - AMD revises GlobalFoundries supply deal to improve output
April 4, 2011 - Microsoft porting Office ribbon to Windows 8? Screenshots inside
April 4, 2011 - Weekend tech reading: 12 ways consoles hurt PC gaming
April 3, 2011 - Leaked: Windows 8's logon screen
April 2, 2011 - Rumor: iPhone 5 to feature 8MP camera from Sony
April 3, 2011 - Android passes BlackBerry in the US
April 2, 2011 - Baidu to pay artists for pirated music
April 3, 2011 - Weekend Open Forum: Your favorite bookmarking service?
April 1, 2011 - Cooler Master HAF 932 gets USB 3.0, black interior
April 1, 2011 - Weekend game deals: 75% off Medal of Honor
April 1, 2011 - IE back to losing share, Firefox gains a little, Chrome still surging
April 1, 2011 - Microsoft: IE9 adoption "about five times higher" than that of IE8
April 1, 2011 - GameStop acquires Spawn Labs and Impulse
April 1, 2011 - Irony: Microsoft accuses Google of antitrust violations
April 1, 2011 - RIM launching PlayBook without native email, messaging?
April 1, 2011 - Free Software Foundation to Google: free Gmail's JavaScript
April 1, 2011 - Nokia publishes Symbian source code
April 1, 2011 - A year later, Microsoft shares some WP7 stats
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