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Samsung unveils its first Android phone – the I7500 Android cellphone. Tipped over the weekend, the I7500 has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, together with a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen running at 320 x 480.
Other specs include GPS, WiFi b/g and HSPA, together with 40GB of storage (8GB internal; up to 32GB via [...]

Apple has been found guilty of patent infringement and charged $19m by a court in Texas.
The patent was held by California-based chip manufacturer OPTi Inc and related to a data transfer method, officially called ‘Predictive snooping of cache memory for master-initiated accesses.’

Facebook is set to announce a new initiative that will give developers unprecedented levels of information to build games and other such services upon.
The announcement would mean developers could, with user permission, access the photos, videos, notes and comments in order to create more topical and personalised applications.

NEC Electronics Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp are to merge in a major move to consolidate semiconductor operations. The move would create the third largest semiconductor company in the world.
NEC Electronics and Renesas plan to sign an agreement at the end of July, 2009 to integrate their business operations.

Microsoft is adding a “Windows XP Mode” to Windows 7, in a move to encourage users to make the switch to the software vendor’s forthcoming operating system.
Microsoft has built its XP mode into Windows 7 by using the Windows Virtual PC technology Microsoft acquired in 2003, to make the OS compatible to run apps designed [...]

Kaspersky Lab recently announced that it is staying in the Philippine market and will even beef up its presence in the country by expanding its business network and providing a higher level of support services to its Filipino customers.
“We at Kaspersky Lab see the Philippines as a strongly emerging market. This is the start of [...]

AMD will launch a 16-core server processor in 2011, according to a new development roadmap released by the company.
The chip, codenamed Interlagos, will arrive in servers with two to four processor sockets, offering the possibility of 64 cores per system.
The processors will be created using the 32nm manufacturing method, which AMD says will improve [...]

Microsoft has launched a public beta of their Microsoft pubCenter service. Microsoft pubCenter is the latest alternative to Google AdSense in the market.
The beta is currently open for US residents only and requires the user to submit U.S. tax ID and address.

Google has patched a bug in its Chrome browser that allowed attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks.
An error in handling URLs with a chromehtml: protocol could allow an attacker to run scripts of his/her choosing on any page or enumerate files on the local disk under certain conditions.
Chrome users should receive the update automatically, but [...]

Yahoo is set to officially shut down GeoCities by the end of 2009. The free personal web-page host, which Yahoo acquired in 1999, is a relic from the Web 1.0 era, which cost Yahoo an estimated $4.6 billion.
The Geocities website contains the following message:
“After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this [...]