Saturday, May 22, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Digital Trends) 22/05/2010


Digital  Trends
Sold! Buy.com Goes to Rakuten for $250 Million!
Japan's Rakuten has bought U.S. online retailer Buy.com for $250 million in cash as the company looks to expand in to the Europe and North America.



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MPEG-LA Looking at Patents for Google’s VP8/WebM Video
Google says it's new VP8 video codec, unlike H.264, is free of patent encumbrances and royalties. Not to fast, says MPEG-LA.



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iPad Currently Outselling Macs?
According to RBC Capital Markets, iPads are currently outselling Apple's Macintosh computers...but is that surprising?



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Adobe Wants to Prove Apple Wrong With 10.1 Flash Upgrade
Adobe Introduces an upgraded version of Flash at the Google I/O conference in hopes of silencing critics.



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Google TV is Here! Is there Success Where Apple has Failed?
The long rumored Google TV that partners the internet company with Sony, Intel and Logitech has been debuted at the Google I/O Conference today.



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Will Head Mounted Displays Replace Monitors for Gaming?
Display technology is changing at a faster pace than in the past, and with new technologies from Nvidia, ATI and others, you can expect to see more radical changes soon.



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Google Shows off Android 2.2 OS, Says 100K Android Phones Sold Per Day
Android 2.2 is introduced today and will run games and apps faster, with better graphics and at higher framerates.



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Samsung’s First Bada Phone Going to UK’s Vodafone on June 1
The Samsung Wave - featuring the company's Bada smartphone OS - will be available on the UK's Vodafone starting June 1.



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Sony Passes “Arrogant” Mantle to Apple
Sony has been known to be an extremely confident company, but recent statements by top execs show that Sony now believes Apple is showing a lot of arrogance with their recent actions.



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Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 8 Coming to North America
Bang & Olufsen's 40-inch BeoVision 8 LCD HDTV is now on sale in North America...and it's only $5,400.



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