Sirius and XM Satellite Radio agree to pay $19.7 million for merger approval

WASHINGTON – Approval of a merger of the nation’s only two satellite radio companies was imminent Thursday after the pair agreed to pay $19.7 million to settle charges they violated federal rules.
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.’s proposed $3.6 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. has been before the Federal Communications Commission for 16 [...]

TomTom go 930

 
 
GPS devices do a decent job at getting us from point A to point B, but they don’t always take the fastest route if you consider traffic, speed limits, school zones, roundabouts, etc. The best way to avoid these delays is with the experience that comes traveling a route frequently. With Tom tom’s IQ Routes [...]

Apple sells 1 million iphones in 3 days

In just three days, Apple sold one million 3G iPhones after its launch in the United States, Hong Kong and 20 other countries, the company said today. The Cupertino company also said more than 10 million applications were downloaded from its newly opened App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. Independent developers have created [...]

iphone 3g Photos

New iphone 3G

 
 
 finally Apple took the wraps off its 3G iPhone. Thinner edges, full plastic back, flush headphone jack, and the iPhone 2.0 firmware — Apple’s taking a lot of the criticisms to heart from the first time around. Obviously 3G is at the forefront, but they’re also making sure it’s available all over internationally, works with [...]

Intel replaces AMD as the leading lady of SKG Dreamworks

 

Intel and Dreamworks SKG made a joint announcement yesterday naming Intel as the movie studio’s premier solution provider going forward. This new deal replaces a previous (and expired) three-year contract AMD signed with Dreamworks back in 2005. It’s unclear what impact the loss of Dreamworks SKG’s patronage will have on AMD’s bottom line, but such [...]

corsair HX1000W Power Supply

 
               
in a relatively short period  of time, Corsair has made
quite a name for itself in the psu market. Like its memory modules,
corsair’s power supply offering have all seemend to offer a little something
extra, whether it’s near silent operation or high efficiency, which  has helped
distinguish them from from the competition. Despire the success of corsair’s [...]

Viacom wants records from YouTube

Last week, in the context of Viacom’s $1 billion copyright suit against Google’s YouTube, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ordered Google to turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube. To give you an idea of how many users might be affected by the order, the wsj reports that, according [...]

what is next microsoft and yahoo ?

In the wake of Microsoft’s failed bid to buy all of Yahoo, one thing is clear: The two companies have what could be called a failure to communicate.
As the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover saga grinds into its sixth month, contacts between the companies are continuing. But the status of talks between them is an increasingly muddled mess [...]

AMD releases new cpu Phenoms

 
               
Advanced Micro Devices has released three new Phenom quad-core processors, the X4 9550, the X4 9350e and the 9150e. AMD’s X4 9550 Black Edition, at 2.6 GHz, comes with a “clock multiplier control” so users can boost the clock speed. AMD has increased its global market share, and iSuppli says the price war with [...]