Tech Headline Watch 9/08
Sep 08
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Mostly Google in the news again with the release of its first slew of [security] updates to it’s newborn baby Chrome. Also, Intel came out with the best performing hard drive on the planet (for now), and it’s an 80 gig SSD. Lastly, eBook lovers can finally eat their hearts out with Plastic Logics’ pretty — almost malleable — e-Ink touchscreen.
Plastic Logic’s Reader is Thinner, Less Ugly than Kindle
BLOG.WIRED.COM — A new digital-book reader unveiled Monday is super thin and attractive – seemingly capitalizing on the flaws of Amazon’s bulky and hideous Kindle. Plastic Logic unveiled its digital reader Monday.
Review: Intel’s new 80GB SSD is faster than the best HDD
COMPUTERWORLD.COM — Intel’s new solid-state disk drives for laptops are faster than the fastest hard disk drive counterpart and almost twice as fast as the next best SSD drive we’ve tested. Remarkably, Intel’s new SSD even matches the fastest hard disk drive in write times.
Google issues first patches for Chrome
COMPUTERWORLD.COM — Less than a week after rolling out its new Web browser, Chrome, Google has now released an update to fix a critical vulnerability in the beta app.
Google Turns 10
TECHNOLOGYEXPERT.BLOGSPOT.COM — Ten years ago today, Google was incorporated. Thus began the meteoric rise of a company that’s become so synonymous with the Internet that its own name has become a verb.
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