Symwave, one of the first companies to design silicon for USB 3.0, is revealing more details about its SOC (system on a chip) using the high-speed standard at the Hot Chips conference on Monday. USB 3.0, which debuted last November, is designed to provide throughput as high as 5GBps, up from just 480MBps for USB [...]

Earlier today, Nokia announced that it was launching Nokia Money, a new payment service powered by Obopay that allows users to send money to friends, merchants, and service companies simply by using their phone numbers. The service will be showcased in early September at the Nokia World conference, with plans to roll it out to [...]

Amazon has launched a new endeavor that integrates traditional IT infrastructure with its EC2 cloud service. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows IT to connect to an isolated set of AWS resources to a datacenter using a VPN connection. Minus all the acronyms, that means that Amazon has created a hybrid cloud that can work securely [...]

We know Steve Jobs is back working as Apple’s CEO. We also are fairly confident that the company plans to launch an Apple Tablet device soon, although likely not at an upcoming event in early September. And now, we have one of the more concrete reports to-date about the importance of the device to Apple… [...]

Yahoo is releasing a series of updates today for its Mail and Messenger consumer web products, and it plans to test features in search that will be launched later this year. This follows the company’s debut of its new, cleaner homepage last month… Tweet This Post