iPhone 3.0

Apple’s iPhone 3.0 OS update is arriving on Wednesday and it brings with it a whole pile of changes.
Apple will be rolling out the iPhone 3.0 OS update. This will come pre-installed on the iPhone 3G S but will also come as a free update for iPhone 3G owners – and even for iPod touch owners too

Scribd signs up Simon & Schuster, adds 5,000 books to its e-book site

Scribd, the upstart San Francisco publisher of online content, today added stalwart New York book publisher Simon & Schuster to its roster of partners.

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Borland acquisition now in doubt

Micro Focus' bid to acquire Borland Software is not a done deal. Filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveal that a counter proposal could be in the works, and in a separate action, a law firm is soliciting disaffected shareholders for a class action against the company's board of directors.

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IBM adopting Harmony for production Java systems

IBM has begun to use libraries from the Apache Harmony project in some of its production-level Java software, it was revealed at JavaOne last week. The move comes after years of IBM quietly contributing code to the Apache Harmony project, and it marked the first time IBM had publicly discussed its use of the software. When Craig Hayman, vice president of WebSphere, took the stage at JavaOne, he was ostensibly talking about hosting Java application servers in the cloud and backing them up with what he called “extreme transaction processing” through creative caching. Then Hayman spoke about Apache Harmony.“In our regular shipping offerings, like WebSphere CE and Lotus Notes, we're using many of the Harmony libraries inside our JVM, and inside our core code. We contribute a lot to the Harmony codebase,” said Hayman


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Intel to launch Pine Trail platform in October?

Last month, during a conference call with analysts, Intel formally introduced a new mobile platform designed to power the next generation of netbooks and other mobile devices. Codenamed Pine Trail, the new platform basically integrates a microprocessor core, graphics processor, and north bridge functionality into a single piece of silicon, code-named Pineview, while a separate Tiger Point chipset will handle I/O operations.

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Take A Look Inside - MacBook Pro 13"

Apple recently introduced a 13" variation into its MacBook Pro line and from the outside, it looks much like its 15 and 17 inch cousins. But how about from the inside?


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Aspire One Grows at Record Rate

The first Acer Aspire One had a 9-inch screen and was extremely popular. It will however be phased out and replaced with a 10-inch variant, and an 11.6" version is in the making already.

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