We’ve learned that Intel can afford to drop the price of its cheapest quad-core all the way to $100, but it doesn’t want to do it simply because it doesn’t have to. (...) read more>>

Yahoo! Inc. has announced that on Monday, July 21st it reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle the ongoing proxy feud over Yahoo’s 2008 Annual Meeting of its stockholders. According to the terms of the settlement agreement reached with Icahn, eight members of Yahoo!’s current Board of Directors will be up for re-election at the 2008 annual meeting.  (...) read more>>

The Caribbean nation of Cuba, famous for its cigars, great musicians and bearded communist leaders, is planning to work around the U.S.-imposed embargo, thanks to a little help from its Venezuelan friends. (...) read more>>

Amorous negotiators from Microsoft are trying to make up for their on again, off again, partnership with Yahoo, by signing a deal with Time Warner's AOL. (...) read more>>

Economic recession seems to have passed the IT industry by, with shipments rising much faster than expected in the second quarter. (...) read more>>

E-Commere in China's expanding more rapidly than a compulsive eater chained to an all you can eat buffet for a week. (...) read more>>

YouTube users can breathe a sigh of relief that their personal data will not fall into the hands of one of the biggest television companies in America. (...) read more>>

Intel has finally launched Centrino 2. The new brand comes wrapped around the Montevina platform and it features a few new things, including support for 1.066MHz FSB, 6MB L3 CPUs, P45 / G45 chipsets and a new wireless card called WiFi Link 5000 series and Wimax. (...) read more>>

Microsoft is set to extend its range of Sidewinder gaming peripherals with the addition of a new gaming keyboard called the Sidewinder X6 and if nothing else, it has a rather unique design inasmuch as it has a detachable numeric keypad that can be attached to either side of the keyboard. (...) read more>>

Last week, Nvidia decided to drop Geforce GTX 280 prices to €399 and it looks like this week the same card is selling for €351. (...) read more>>

OCZ's bread and butter may be memory of various types, such as DDR3 RAM or the (absolutely awesome) OCZ 64GB SATA II SSD, but its latest Alchemy range takes a different direction. Débuting with the Elixir keyboard, the Alchemy line of gaming products is, in theory at least, intended to offer gamers decent peripherals, without a huge price tag. (...) read more>>

As Windows 7, codenamed Vienna is an improved version of Vista, DirectX 11 will work on both systems. It looks that DirectX 11 will launch before Windows 7 and we have high hopes of seeing DirectX 11 by the end of 2009. (...) read more>>

According to the pictures seen at Expreview.com, Powercolor is prepping a new version of the HD 4850 card with 2GB of memory. (...) read more>>

Desperate to get back in the search engine race, Yahoo has released a new service called "Build Your Own Search," that will share Yahoo's technology with third parties. (...) read more>>

A flaw in the coding of the World Wide Web has been fixed in secret by a collection of industry heavyweights.

If the DNS flaw had been exploited it could have turned the entire Internet over to phishers, but surprisingly no one found out about it. The problem was based on a fundamental issue with how the entire addressing scheme of the internet works. If exploited hackers could have easily lead people to fake sites, could rout them to wherever they liked whatever they typed into their browser. (...) read more>>