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Despite growing signals that Google’s advertising pact with Yahoo might be challenged by antitrust authorities in the US and EU, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company expects to implement it, as planned, in October – even if government regulators need more time to assess whether the alliance will diminish competition.
Google already delayed the deal [...]

After two years in development, VLC, the popular open-source player has just moved from the 0.8.x versions to version 0.9.2. The newly updated software remains small and lightweight while bringing a new interface for Windows and Linux systems as well as new inputs, more codec support and new on the fly audio and video filters.
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How far are we away from a Windows 7 beta? Apparently only a month away. Considering that six years traversed between the release of XP and Vista, that’s certainly putting some racing stripes on development and getting it out the door fast. Of course, this is just a rumor. There is some other interesting information [...]

Confirming earlier reports, Intel has officially unveiled its six-core server microprocessors. Codenamed Dunnington, the new chips are part of the Xeon 7400 family of processors, which comes in four-core and six-core versions designed to be used in systems with four or more processors.
Intel says the new chips deliver 50 percent better performance and 10 percent [...]

Spore has been rife with controversy from well before release, both in and out of the context of gaming. When it comes to gamers in particular, there was a lot of negative feedback given to EA over their DRM. They responded, but not in kind, and it seems that despite all the heavy locking they [...]

Today Google announced their progress and mission plan for taking care of the current and future security issues with their new Chrome browser. In particular, they revealed some details about the two biggest known flaws. Those have been fixed, along with some other minor issues.
Google also has opened a Chrome Releases blog, which they are [...]

Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple’s music event today in San Francisco to announce a handful of new products, including new and updated iPod nanos, touch and classic. As expected, the new iPod nano will be the thinnest model ever made by Apple, boasting a longer body and curved display similar to those pictures [...]

Last month, Dell claimed to have achieved an impressive mobile-computing milestone by getting its E-Series Latitudes to operate continuously for 19 hours on a single charge – albeit using a combination of a giant 9-cell internal battery and a whopping 12 cell external one. Today, however, HP is upping the ante by introducing a machine [...]

Ubisoft’s upcoming Far Cry 2 now has an official release date, with the company planning to deploy the game a little over a month from now. They are planning to release it in the U.S. on October 21st and October 24th for European countries. Like many new titles are doing, Ubisoft has seen the advantage [...]

Google has  released a new web browser built from the ground up and based on WebKit, the same rendering engine that Safari uses. The browser, dubbed Chrome, is open-source software built with security, compatibility and speed in mind – and of course it’ll integrate various Google services in it.
Google chose a rather interesting way to [...]