Intel Advances Solid State Storage

Intel Monday announced availability of its latest line of solid-state drives (SSD), which replaces the company's earlier X25-M SATA (Serial ATA) SSDs. The new SSDs -- dubbed the Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) SSD 320 Series -- take advantage of 25 nm NAND flash technology.... Read more

Oracle Q3 Earnings Build On Sun

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is continuing to grow its business, with strong revenues for its third fiscal quarter. Growth is coming from all sectors, including hardware from its Sun Microsystem acquisition. "We saw strength across all regions, industries and product... Read more

Java Founder Gosling going to Google

Google's Java credibility is about to get a major boost. James Gosling, the creator of Java is now a Google employee. Gosling was among the many former Sun employees that were not happy with the new Oracle ownership. Gosling left Oracle in April of 2010 and... Read more

Microsoft Adjusts Pricing for Client Access Licenses

With the recent revisions of some of its business software offerings, Microsoft announced new pricing for the so-called "client access licenses" (CAL) that users must have in order to access those products. However, the changes in configuration and costs... Read more

Panasonic HDC-SD60K (black)

Panasonic's quartet of entry-level HD camcorders the HDC-HS60, TM60, TM55, and SD60 delivers a good performance, as well as solid video quality for their class. The SD60 is a great value, and avoid paying the unnecessary price premium for the hard drive in... Read more

Flip UltraHD (2009, black)

This is the 2009 version of the Flip UltraHD. While it's still available through some retailers, note that the updated 2010 Flip UltraHD is now available. Every six months or so, Flip Video--slated to be absorbed by Cisco by the end of the year--puts out... Read more

Apple's iPad 2 is the 'Holy Grail' of computing

Eleven months ago, Apple released the first iPad, a touchscreen handheld computer that redefined tablets, disrupting the laptop/desktop market just as the iPod did to music players and the iPhone did to smartphones. On Friday, 15 million iPads later, Apple... Read more

Smartphone OS shootout: Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone

The past year has been a remarkable one for smartphones, with the meteoric rise of Google's Android OS, the restart of Microsoft's mobile strategy with its much-ballyhooed release of Windows Phone 7 and the continuing success of Apple's iPhone, buoyed by... Read more

Internet Explorer 9 speeds past the competition

Throw away what you think you know about Internet Explorer -- because the just-released IE9 will turn it all on its ear. Think IE is sluggish? Think again, because according to SunSpider tests, it rivals or beats the speed demons Chrome and Opera. Believe... Read more

Google patches 6 serious Chrome bugs

Google on Thursday patched six vulnerabilities in Chrome, and as usual, silently updated users' copies of the browser. The update to Chrome 10.0.648.204 also included two more blacklisted SSL certificates that may be related to last week's theft of nine digital... Read more

Nokia Astound coming to T-Mobile April 6 for $79.99

ORLANDO, Fla.--Though T-Mobile and Nokia are both in a state of flux, they're joining forces to offer an affordable smartphone for the U.S. market. Today, both companies announced that the Nokia Astound will be available from T-Mobile starting April 6 for... Read more