News to know: AMD Spider; Patch day; Mac Pros; CES galore
Notable headlines:
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hands-on with the AMD Spider - Phenom 9700, 790 chipset and Radeon 3850 graphics. Gallery (right)
Christopher Dawson: Cheap PCs keep on coming...Good news for tight budgets
Don't pay too much for memory upgrades
Larry Dignan: Microsoft delivers two patches for three vulnerabilities; Plugs Vista hole
Russell Shaw: Sprint tells me they've solved dead relative calling plan, $14,000 bill issues
Man gets record sentence for computer sabotage
David Morgenstern: Bogus hardware test error messages on Mac Pros
Apple rolls out new eight-core Mac Pro, Xserve refresh
Larry Dignan: Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 billion; Likely to trigger enterprise search consolidation
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft looking to Fast for scale, Web search help Microsoft bolsters enterprise search with Fast Search
Dana Gardner: IBM remains way out in front on information access despite Microsoft's Fast bid
CES coverage:
- Robin Harris: Cool storage at CES - part 2
- Microsoft's Xbox could consider Blu-ray support
- Sprint says WiMax on track for end of April
- GM unveils eco-friendly concept Cadillac
- Comcast introduces open-cable platform. Techmeme.
- Matthew Miller: CES: Mobility at the ShowStoppers event Gallery (right).
- Rik Fairlie: Linksys debuts two slick-looking, affordable Wi-Fi routers at CES
- Russell Shaw: Comcast on Digital Voice: "we're now number 4 telco, and we ain't VoIP" Too much glare when you look at your cameraphone photos? Could be a thing of the past
- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft set to roll out 2.0 'Origami' pack for ultra-mobile PCs Will touch drive Microsoft Surface sales or will Surface drive touch?
- Garett Rogers: Panasonic to sell web-enabled TV using Google
- SanDisk CEO unfazed by recession concerns
- Bits: AT&T, other ISPs may be getting ready to filter. News.com: FCC: We'll investigate Comcast-BitTorrent flap
- U.S. may take action on EU electronics tariffs
Steve O'Hear: Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org - better late than never Dennis Howlett: DataPortability.org Workgroup is still born Techmeme
Picture fuzzy for organic thin TVs
AP: AT&T CEO sees consumer slowdown
Dana Blankenhorn: Glue for eye tears wins sales approval
Roland Piquepaille: Virtual factories under your fingers
Review: Microsoft Office for the Mac 2008
Apple seen set to resolve Europe's iTunes case
TechCrunch: Yahoo to release browser-based MP3 player
WiMax seen growing fast globally
Joe McKendrick: Analyze this: SOA and BPM 'codependency'
HP aims to cut PC energy use by 25 percent
Jason O'Grady: Macworld Expo Las Vegas 2009!