AP – The Federal Trade Commission sued Intel Corp. on Wednesday, looking to block pricing deals and other tactics the government said the world’s biggest chip maker has used to snuff out competition.
AP – World War II has been the setting for so many video games that playing them all would probably take as much time as the war itself.
PC World – In Esperanto the word is “malica.” It means malicious and it’s the best way of describing many of the search results Google visitors got Tuesday when the clicked on Google’s front-page Doodle sketch, dedicated to Esperanto’s creator.
PC World – Telecommunication regulators in Singapore issued new guidelines governing contract terms and early termination fees for mobile and broadband services in a bid to make the city-state’s telecommunications industry more competitive.
PC World – Those who want a little less Google on their iPhones will soon be able to put a lot more Bing on their handsets. Microsoft is prepping a Bing iPhone app for immediate release via Apple’s App Store to give iPhone users a Google alternative.
PC World – On Monday Toshiba announced a new 64GB flash memory module, which the company claims is the highest-capacity flash module in the industry. The new 64GB NAND flash module is just 30 micrometers thin, packs a dedicated controller, and contains sixteen 32Gbit chips.
PC World – Doing a Google image search for “supercomputerâ€� won’t get you anything resembling the latest creation coming out of the University of Antwerp: The Fastra II desktop supercomputer boasts several teraflops of computing power, yet its small size sets it apart from the usual room-sized supercomputers, as does its considerably smaller price tag (6000 euros/$8,791).
PC World – IBM has been disparaging products made by a smaller rival in order to protect its lucrative mainframe business, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
PC World – Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously unknown bug in the latest version of the company’s Reader and Acrobat software.
PC World – The wireless LAN industry nearly returned to its pre-recession health in the third quarter and is likely to achieve record revenue when the current quarter has been tallied, according research company Dell’Oro Group.