The Toshiba Qosmio G40 notebook will sport a SpursEngine SE1000 chip based on the Cell Broadband Engine, which is also used in the Sony PlayStation 3.
Some other features of the SpursEngine: Its multimedia engine can deliver up to 48 GFlops (billion Floating point operations per second) or 12GFlops per processing element. Every element has [...]

Visual search engine Searchme has a sexy new
iPhone app that brings its signature Cover-Flow-like interface to the phone’s 3.5-inch display. Search results come in the form of large thumbnails with short content summaries underneath. To browse through them you simply flick your finger across the screen, just like you would with album covers in the [...]

Shares of the chipmaker fell as low as $4.60 a share in early trading, or down approximately 7 percent. AMD was trading at $4.82, down 2.8 percent, later in the morning.

In addition to the ATI and DTV charges, the chipmaker noted it will take a $32 million restructuring charge, which largely came from severance [...]

Rivest briefly mentioned Alan Turing, to whom this year’s RSA conference is dedicated. Turing is best known for the Turing Test, a process that determines a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. What Rivest really wanted to talk about, however, was electronic voting. He said cryptography is relevant to creating end-to-end security. He’s part of a [...]

Complaints prompting Facebook changes
Comcast, Cox join RIAA antipiracy campaign
Nokia invests in mobile-payment company
EMI’s catalog comes to Project Playlist

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New Dell enterprise offering heavy on services
Microsoft is promising lower power consumption in
Windows 7, among other products. CNET News intern Erik Palm had a chance to sit down with Robert Bernard, the company’s chief environmental [...]

Netbooks were the big end-user gadget on display at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference that ended Friday.
So, I contacted Intel. There are no immediate plans for dual-core Atom chips designed specifically for Netbooks, according to Intel. But what’s stopping a netbook supplier from using a dual-core Atom 330 (designed for nettops) in a Netbook? [...]

Google spokeswoman Jane Penner didn’t share too many details Monday, such as how many contractors are affected, whether contracts are being canceled or just not renewed, how many contractors Google will hire, and over what time frame the changes will take place.

Layoffs are of course spreading across the world, including at direct Google competitors such [...]

Update, September 24: this background check is no longer performed. Anyone can get a Clear card as long as they have two forms of government identification. See my followup post, “Is Clear worth anything at all?”
Doesn’t it seem like VIP is leveraging its privileged position in airport security–a position established in cooperation with a [...]

But tweens aren’t the only young demographic that the mobile industry is interested in targeting. On Friday the CTIA will feature a session at its fall trade show here that will provide results of a national survey of thousands of American teenagers. It will also provide a live panel of 13- to 19-year-olds, who will [...]

It makes sense to do it now: the Facebook Platform just hit its one-year anniversary, and while it remains extraordinarily popular, developers have found an alternative in OpenSocial. Created by Google and then spun off into a nonprofit organization, OpenSocial is an open-source developer standard that any participating social site can use. Most of the [...]