PC World – After Chile’s massive earthquake and potential Pacific Rim tsunami damage, relief organizations, government agencies, corporations and throngs of people are on Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other services to seek and provide information and help. Read the original article here

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AFP – At one of Beijing’s many Internet cafes, near-silence reigns: headphones on, eyes glued to the screen, web users play games online en masse, helping to make China one of the industry’s top markets. Read the original article here

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PC World – Apple’s iTunes Store reached a major milestone this week when it delivered its 10 billionth song, an event that highlights the great success of Cupertino’s digital-download service. Read the original article here

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PC World – Microsoft and Google are stepping up their war of words. This time it’s Microsoft’s turn: It says Google is pointing fingers rather than addressing the European Commission’s investigation into the search giant. Read the original article here

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Reuters – Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its internet rival’s actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators. Read the original article here

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Reuters – The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called “Web 2.0″ sites across the U.S. military, saying the benefits of social media outweighed security concerns. Read the original article here

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AFP – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao plans to take part in an online chat with Internet users around the country and overseas on Saturday, state media said, in a repeat of a similar exercise last year. Read the original article here

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AFP – The Pentagon said soldiers will be allowed to Tweet, blog and update their Facebook pages on the US military’s non-classified computer network under a new policy. Read the original article here

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AFP – Google on Saturday quickly activated an online “person finder” tool to allow relatives and friends to find loved ones following the huge earthquake in Chile. Read the original article here

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PC World – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should look not only for television broadcasters to give up unused wireless spectrum but also government agencies, in an effort to provide more spectrum for commercial mobile broadband, a new paper says. Read the original article here

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Intel is sponsoring the 20th Anniversary of Cinequest Film Festival from February 23 to March 7, 2010 in San Jose, California. Cinequest celebrates the mavericks and innovators in the movie making industry, and this year will welcome 85,000 film lovers, students and artists to over 250 screenings and events from 45 countries. This is the Continue reading →

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   The BlackBerry App Planet developer stand was bustling with people yesterday. While I’m sure that yesterday’s announcements and the BlackBerry developer experts on hand were the main draw, I can’t help but feel that our little LEGO robot friend played a part. Nicknamed “Johny 5″, our motorized companion – controlled by a BlackBerry Storm2 Continue reading →

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Nvidia’s “Fermi” GF100 GPU is just over the horizon. With it, comes new technology as well as a new host of cards all vying for your dollar. But before that happens, we take an amazing photographic look into Nvidia’s GPUs, present, and past. Nvidia – Graphics processing unit – Technology – NVIDIA GPU – Benchmark Continue reading →

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Third-generation terabyte hard drives have been available for a while. Today we’re taking a look at a trio of 1TB disks from Hitachi in order to gauge what benefits, if any, you’ll see from adopting a drive with increased storage density. Hitachi – Hard disk drive – Storage – Hardware – Memory storage density Read Continue reading →

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In the future, an increasing number of hard drives will be writing data in 4KB chunks (rather than 512 bytes) to increase storage capacities. Performance isn’t impacted, as long as you follow some rules. We put WD’s new EARS series on the test bench. Western Digital – Hard disk drive – Hardware – Storage – Continue reading →

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