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Windows Phone 7 based on new, unreleased Windows CE 7 core

Windows Embedded evangelist Olivier Bloch confirmed today in a blog update that Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's next smartphone OS, is based on the unannounced and unreleased Windows CE 7 core. Add comment

Adobe CTO: Android to get public Flash 10.1 beta this month

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch has confirmed in a short blog post that a public beta of Flash 10.1 for Android will debut May 19-20 at Google's I/O conference. Add comment

NVIDIA’s chief scientist: Moore’s Law is dead, CPUs inefficient

Chief Scientist and SVP of Research at NVIDIA William Dally said in a column in Forbes that Moore's Law is no longer scaling processor performance with transistors, nor are CPUs capable of fulfilling ever increasing performance demands. Add comment

Palm Pre Plus falls to $30 on Verizon

Verizon revealed yesterday that it has slashed the price on the Palm Pre Plus from $50 to $29.99 with a two-year contract. Add comment

NVIDIA: Ageia PhysX PPU support officially kaput

NVIDIA has officially ended support for Ageia's PhysX physics processing units (PPUs) in the latest PhysX drivers bundled with NVIDIA's ForceWare driver packages. Add comment

Big, beautiful, brawny: HTC Desire review

Icrontic takes a look at Europe's top-of-the-line Android offering and comes away impressed. The Desire lives up to its name. Add comment

AMD releases ATI Stream SDK update

AMD has released version 2.1 of the Stream SDK, which adds a whole host of new features. Add comment

Motorola outs update for Cliq XT

Motorola announced this weekend that a two-part update for the Cliq XT is now hitting the airwaves with a select number of fixes in tow. Add comment

NVIDIA: ForceWare betas 197.75 for Fermi and 197.57 released

NVIDIA has today released a pair of beta drivers: 197.75 for Fermi-based GPUs and 197.57 for the company's remaining contemporary GPUs, respectively. Add comment

MSI announces lightweight GE600 gaming notebook

Lightweight gaming laptops are few and far between, but MSI's latest attempt contains a discrete Radeon 5730, which should be able to handle most current games with aplomb. Add comment

NVIDIA: Future Fermi cards may have 512 cores

NVIDIA GM of MCP Business Drew Henry confirmed that improvements in TSMC's 40nm process could pave the way for future GeForce GTX 400-series adapters with 512 cores. Add comment

3G-equipped iPads available starting today

After the successful launch of the WiFi-only tablet, Apple today is finishing out the iPad lineup with the official introduction of models equipped with a 3G radio. Add comment

Canonical announces Ubuntu 10.04

Canonical yesterday unveiled the official version of Ubuntu 10.04. Known also as Lucid Lynx, the newly-minted version brings a fresh user interface, social network integration, improved performance and more. Add comment

Why Steve Jobs hates Flash

Steve Jobs has stepped forward with six reasons why Apple is saying no to Flash. We break 'em down and let our staff speak their minds. Add comment

Palm outs webOS 1.4.1.1 for Pre Plus and Pixi Plus

Verizon Wireless customers equipped with a Palm Pre Plus or Pixi Plus are eligible today for webOS 1.4.1.1. Add comment

Fifteen percent of all malware comes from fake antivirus

Fifteen percent of all malware that users acquire comes from fake antivirus warnings, according to a Google study. Add comment

HTC Droid Incredible shipping today

Verizon Wireless has announced that HTC's Droid Incredible is available for purchase today. Add comment

A dark horse appears: HP to acquire Palm

Palm, Inc. and HP have just announced a definitive agreement in which HP will purchase Palm at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash, or an enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion. Add comment

AMD’s Catalyst 10.4: big cursors and BF:BC2 load times fixed

Long load times in BF:BC2? Fixed. Randomly enlarging cursors? Fixed. Add comment

Android 2.2, codename Froyo, to ship with Flash support

Speaking to the New York Times, Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin confirmed that the next version of Android will ship with built-in support for Adobe's Flash runtime. Add comment

Corsair files for IPO with SEC

Corsair last Friday filed to raise up to $86.25 million USD in IPO designed to help the firm offset recent losses. Add comment