By the middle of next year, the lock that Latin alphabets have had on Internet domain names will be broken, when a plan announced last week by the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN, is

Cloud computing is a popular topic these days. One of the ways in which cloud computing is being delivered to businesses is by hosted email security services.A hosted email security provider offers antivirus and antispam protection for their customers using

Facebook announced on Thursday that it has won its lawsuit against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace. A judge in San Jose, CA awarded the site a $711 million judgement, the second largest in history to be awarded under the CAN-SPAM Act."While

After last month's teaser announcement, Dell has finally spilled the beans about its unusual-looking Adamo XPS laptop. The PC maker expects to start selling the sleek ultraportable "in time for the holidays" at a starting price of $1,799. Specs-wise, the

The last AMD roadmap we saw described Ontario, a 32-nm "accelerated processing unit" with two cores, 1MB of cache, support for DDR3 memory, and a built-in graphics processor. We haven't heard much about this future product since then, but today,

id Software often gets credit for opening the source code of old game engines a few years after their release. Epic Games has now pulled a comparable feat, except with two major differences: the new Unreal Development Kit doesn't include

At this point, it's pretty clear that AMD's Radeon HD 5800-series graphics cards are in short supply—especially the 5850. What you may not know is that, according to DigiTimes, this scarceness has forced both PC makers and AMD to rejigger

Hard-drive makers don't just ramp capacities in their 3.5" and 2.5" products—teeny 1.8" drives are also quietly growing in storage density. This morning, Toshiba announced a new 1.8" mechanical hard drive lineup, the MK3233GSG series, which combines capacities...

Thursday SemiAccurate reports Nvidia crushes MSI's Lucid-based board TG Daily reports AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee Expreview reports Intel denies promoting Larrabee to graphics card makers 2nd update: NY AG claims Dell got $6B via secret Intel pact

Mozilla Firefox may be getting all the market share points, but Google is still hard at work improving its own web browser. The search giant has released a new Chrome beta that features both improved performance and the ability to

Now that both Asus and Gigabyte have USB 3.0-compatible motherboards on the way, the next step is devices. Super Talent hasn't skipped a beat, announcing a trio of USB 3.0 flash drives with hefty capacities and impressive top transfer speeds.

Web developers rejoice: more people are now browsing the web using Firefox than Internet Explorer 6, according to Net Applications figures quoted by Ars Technica. The data show Firefox commanded 24.1% of the market last month, compared to 23.3% for

It ain't over yet for Intel. After receiving a $1.45 billion fine from the European Commission for antitrust violations, Intel has now gotten sued by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo for similar transgressions. According to the New York

AMD may no longer have the high-end power-efficiency crown, but it's nevertheless cooking up a pair of new desktop platforms. So writes DigiTimes, basing its story on tips from insiders at motherboard manufacturers. These platforms will include Leo at the

The rumor mill is at it again. According to EE Times, an equity research firm has revived last year's speculation by claiming Nvidia is covertly developing an x86 processor to compete with AMD and Intel. Broadpoint AmTech analyst Doug Freedman

Wednesday Ars Technica: Are new rumors of an Nvidia x86 CPU plausible? DigiTimes reports AMD readies 2 desktop platforms for May 2010 Fudzilla reports Nanya predicts DRAM boom Bing U.S. market share stabilizes but Yahoo! continues to fall Yahoo teams

Some folks scoffed when AMD introduce the Phenom II X4 965 processor back in August with a 140W thermal design power. Now, some months later, AMD has introduced a revised version with a 125W TDP.

A map of the bacteria living on the human body shows the bugs that call us home have strong preferences about where they settle

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how to kill thousands of species with magma and coal, why the digital switchover is good news for astronomers, and a quick and simple way to make a really loud noise

One of Earth's worst-ever mass extinctions may have been caused by carbon dioxide released by exploding mixtures of magma and coal