Miscellaneous Tech News worthy of mention
December 23, 2010
Did you have trouble logging into Skype yesterday? If so, you’re far from alone, because so did around 20 million other users, all victims to a temporary outage in which “some of you may be having problems signing in,” Skype acknowledged in a Twitte…
Tags: Internet, News Worthy, outage, Skype, Software, VOIP
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December 22, 2010
If you like to root for the underdog and have been losing sleep wondering how AMD’s going to compete against Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture and other upcoming technologies, go ahead and rest easy tonight. According to DigiTimes, AMD expects its glob…
Tags: AMD, hardware, mobile, News Worthy, notebook, processor
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December 22, 2010
Hey, just what the world needs, another subscription streaming music service, right? Not exactly, but it’s getting one anyway, this time courtesy of Sony, Yahoo News reports.
Sony’s “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity” is based entirely in the cloud, …
Tags: music, News Worthy, online, Sony, streaming, subscription
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December 22, 2010
Erich Specht, a man who ran a data company called Android Data from 1998 through 2002, won’t be receiving the $94 million payday he was hoping for. That’s the amount he wanted Google to pay him for allegedly infringing on his trademark with the “Androi…
Tags: android, court, law, legal, News Worthy, trademark
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December 22, 2010
Craigslist, the popular online classifieds site, has closed down its adult services section from all of its international portals, ABCNews reports.
“This move is another important step in the ongoing fight to more effectively screen and stop pernicious…
Tags: adult services, classifieds, craigslist, Internet, News Worthy, online
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December 22, 2010
Intel’s $7.68 billion acquisition of computer security company McAfee is now one step closer to being completed having received the necessary regulatory approval from the Federal Trade Commission earlier this week. The Santa Clara-based chip maker …
Tags: antitrust, eu, european commission, european union, Federal Trade Commission, ftc, Intel, Mcafee, News Worthy, Security
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December 22, 2010
Remember that whole kerfuffle between Activision and former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella? Yeah, well, it never ended. Also, it’s done being a “kerfuffle.” When this much money and bad blood is on the table, we’re legally req…
Tags: activision, Electronic Arts, gaming, Infinity Ward, lawsuit, News Worthy, Respawn Entertainment, Software
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December 22, 2010
Legit Reviews recently had the chance to interview Terry Makedon, Manager of Software Product Management for discrete GPU's, from AMD and talked about a number of topics when it comes to AMD video cards. Over his tenure at AMD he has become synon…
Tags: AMD, CatalystMaker, interview, Terry Makedon
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