AMD will unfold its plan to take on Intel’s Atom in November, newly promoted CEO Dirk Meyer said last night. As Register Hardware has reported in the past, AMD’s is currently working on a chip codenamed ‘Bobcat’, a single-core, 64-bit processor designed for low-cost laptops and Small, Cheap Computers.

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Linux lovers take note, Dell is feeling another round of the community spirit tugging on its heartstrings.

The Round Rock vendor said it will pre-load the Ubuntu operating system on two new boxes, starting early next month.

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Firefox 3.01 got released as a roundup for security fixes

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British Telecom announced plans to roll out fibre-based, super-fast broadband to as many as 10 million homes by 2012. The £1.5 billion programme will deliver a range of services with top speeds of up to 100 Mb/s with the potential for speeds of more than 1,000 Mb/s in the future.

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Seagate unveiled the industry’s first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives to meet explosive worldwide demand for digital-content storage in home and business environments.
The debut of the Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.

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Phoenix chip needs 30,000 times less power when in sleep mode than comparable chips

Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a new microchip that uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and ten times less power when working than other comparable chips on the market. Read more…

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A team of Penn State scientists has discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. The microorganism’s ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variety of extreme environments on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the solar system. Read more…

Normally fragile and brittle silicon chips have been made to bend and fold, paving the way for a new generation of flexible electronic devices.

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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign build a new browser from scratch to help keep hackers at bay.

Convinced that all modern Web browsers suffer from "fundamental design flaws" that expose users to nonstop hacker attacks, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are building a new browser from scratch, with security as the killer feature.

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