Quick News: Intel, Counter Strike, and More
As Intel prepares to close a flash memory chip plant in New Mexico, it looks like close to a 1,000 employees could feel the effects personally. Market intelligence group iSuppli, is predicting that by 4Q of 2009 over 60% of Notebooks will be sporting flash memory. That comes out to around 24,000,000 laptops. A woman…
Quick News: Ubuntu, China, and More
It looks like Dell is going to give Linux another go. This time they have decided to make Ubuntu an option on certain upcoming models. AMD is flipping out again about a possible monopoly that may or may not exist between Japanese PC vendors and Intel. AMD claims that NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony and Hitachi…
Quick News: Ebay, Same-Sex Elf Marriage, and More
For those of you who still haven’t linked up their TiVo boxes to Amazon Unbox, you might want to right now. Since today is the last day to get a $15 UnBox credit for doing so. Yahoo’s picking up the remaining 80% of online advertiser Right Media, for $680 million. That looks like chump change…
Quick News: The Weather Channel, The Olympics, and More
According to the forecast in Beijing, there’s a 50% chance of rain for the Olympics Opening Ceremony. But Beijing doesn’t like those odds, so instead they’ve armed anti-aircraft guns with silver iodine bullets that will force the looming clouds to rain ahead of schedule. Google claims that after 32 hours, the glitch that was messing…
Quick News: MPAA, Lenovo and More
Ken Kutaragi is leaving his fatherly position as CEO of Sony’s game division, and replacing him in June will be Kazou Hirai. http://kotaku.com/gaming/playstation/ken-kutaragi-steps-down-at-playstation-255545.php Dan Glickerman of the MPAA stated at a recent DRM conference that he not only believes that it’s okay for the consumer to rip DVDs for personal use, but that if they…
Quick News: Lex Luthor Elated by Discovery of Kryptonite
So it’s not technically kryptonite, but it’s composed of almost the exact same stuff that some writer for the latest movie thought kryptonite should be made out of: Sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. AT&T is now the biggest ISP in the US with 12.9 million broadband users. The crown previously belonged to Comcast. We can…