Samsung Pursuing
Acquisition of SanDisk
Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S.
computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp
An acquisition could help Samsung cut the amount of
royalties it pays to SanDisk and give it other advantages in tightening
control over the flash memory market. Samsung pays SanDisk up to $500
million annually in royalties relating to flash-memory patents
Both Samsung and SanDisk neither confirmed nor denied the
report.
Google
G1
The
first phone that harnesses Google Inc.'s ambition to make
the Internet easy to use on the go was revealed Tuesday,
and it looks a lot like an iPhone.
T-Mobile
USA showed off the G1, a phone that, like Apple Inc.'s
iPhone, has a large touch screen. But it also packs a
trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to
Google's e-mail and mapping programs.
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Browser Wars Revisited
Google has introduced a new Web browser, called Chrome,
aimed at wresting dominance of the browser market from Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer. The move takes the Google-Microsoft rivalry to a
whole new level. If Google succeeds, it will be a big deal, with major
ramifications for the future of the Web.
Meanwhile, Microsoft hasn’t been sitting still. The
second beta version of IE8 is the best edition of Internet Explorer in
years. It is packed with new features of its own, some of which are
similar to those in Chrome, and some of which, in my view, top
Chrome’s features.
Google sees the Web as a
platform for the software programs, or applications, that currently run
directly on computer operating systems, notably Microsoft’s Windows.
It says current browsers lack the underlying architecture to enable
future, more powerful Web applications that will rely more heavily on a
common Web programming language called JavaScript. Chrome was designed
to be the world’s speediest browser at handling JavaScript.
With the emergence of Chrome, consumers have a new and
innovative browser choice, and with IE8, the new browser war is sure to
be a worthy contest.
Download
Chrome for XP and Vista
Download
Microsoft IE 8 for XP and Vista
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