An Android demonstration took center stage that week at the Google I/O event in San Francisco attended by 2,900 developers. The latest version of the mobile platform was introduced amid nearly 100 in-depth technical sessions about Google’s developer products and general Web application development.

“The demo was very impressive in terms of showin…

Via Technologies has introduced a new VIA Nano processor family that offers as much as four times the performance within the same ability range by the company’s previous-generation C7 processor lineup.

In specific, Nano paves the way for notebook manufacturers to deploy Via’s chips in computer designs optimized for Blu-ray Disc video playback and…

Intel and Micron Technology announced Thursday that they have developed the first under-40-nanometer NAND flash-memory device, which could invent possible smaller, higher-capacity solid-state drives.

At 34nm, the 32-gigabit multilevel chip is the smallest NAND available. The companies said the new NAND chip is the only monolithic device of that de…

Despite the approval of Microsoft’s Open Office XML standard by two worldly standards bodies, the document format is not yet on stable ground. India and Brazil have joined South Africa in contesting the approval, standards officials revealed.

“By the deadline last night (Thursday), we had received three appeals, from Brazil, India and South Afric…

Gaming on the iPhone is going to be huge, game developers just can not keep their hands off of the iPhone, and for good reason. The device has a ton of horsepower, and has already proven it is more than capable of playing games, as well as perform all sorts of other functions. that is a very complex game, and is very telling of the iPhone’s a…

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It may form some sense for Ducati to try its hand at co-branding a mobile phone the way car companies have, but it would have been well advised to wait for a better opportunity.

There’s nothing wrong with the choice of Sony Ericsson’s Z770 handset, but …
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Valve’s Steam service is perhaps the best digital distribution network for downloading PC games.(Credit: Valve)
We love it when companies just get it. Valve Software and its announcement of SteamCloud is a prime example. As reported by John Walker at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, SteamCloud will let anyone …