http://www.cdrinfo.com/ Keep current with all the new technical news and information published on the CdrInfo.com Web Site. en-us 60 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:21:20 GMT Anonymous has published a recording on Friday of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives on Youtube, in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32350 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:19:47 GMT Mozilla released today updates to its Aurora and Beta versions that introduce some changes for the Firefox on PCs. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32349 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:55:43 GMT Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for the struggling memory chipmaker. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32348 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:35:35 GMT Motorola Mobility said that approximately 100 out of a batch of 6,200 Motorola XOOM Wi-Fi tablets that were refurbished by Motorola Mobility may not have been completely cleared of the original owner's data prior to resale. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32347 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:29:59 GMT LG has released a new external BDXL writer named BP40NS20, available for $143. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32346 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:56:07 GMT Apple's German online store shows that all 3G models of its iPad 2 are today (Friday) unavailable for purchase, after Motorola Mobility enforced a patent injunction against the company. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32345 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:43:58 GMT Earlier this month Google announced that it was updating its privacy policies. Today France?s data-protection agency is leading an EU analysis into the changes, and is asking the Internet giant to stop the roll out. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32344 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:36:49 GMT Google today revealed a service codenamed 'Bouncer,' which provides automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32343 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:06:29 GMT Fujitsu today released in Japan of the STYLISTIC M350/CA2, an Android OS-based tablet for the enterprise market. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32342 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:55:20 GMT Corning and Samsung Mobile Display have signed an agreement to establish a new equity venture for the manufacture of specialty glass substrates for the expanding organic light emitting diode (OLED) device market. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32341 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:48:27 GMT Skype has just released an update to Skype for Windows (version 5.8). http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32340 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:00:20 GMT Samsung Electronics is allowed to continue to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, after a regional court in Munich rejected an Apple motion to block sales of the product due to a patent violation, Samsung said Thursday. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32339 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:24:19 GMT At its annual Financial Analyst Day, AMD detailed a new "ambidextrous" strategy that builds on the company's long history of x86 and graphics innovation while embracing other technologies and intellectual property to deliver differentiated products. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32338 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:18:34 GMT The worldwide mobile phone market grew 6.1% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2011 (4Q11), as the feature phone market declined faster than anticipated, dragging market growth down to its lowest point in over two years. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32337 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:17:06 GMT Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) will announce 3-D IC assembly service as a general offering at the beginning of next year. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32336 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:16:19 GMT There may be times when you don't have an Internet connection on your Android device, but you still want access to a file you?ve saved in Google Docs. Now you can select any file in Google Docs to make it available offline. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32335 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:35:12 GMT The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in order to collect patent royalties due from American Media International, LLC, a DVD disc replicator. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32334 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:24:13 GMT Taiwan's AU Optronics said on Thursday it would form a strategic alliance with Japan's Idemitsu Kosan to develop next-generation OLED flat screen technology. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32333 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:13:16 GMT Sony on Thursday kept its annual LCD TV sales forecast unchanged but cut its forecasts for digital camera and PlayStation 3 hardware sales. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32332 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:12:42 GMT Sony said that its PlayStation Network will be offline for routine scheduled maintenance on Thursday, February 2nd from approximately 6am until midnight PST. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32331 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:04:26 GMT ASUS today launched the DRW-24B5ST, a DVD writer bundled with two disc burning solutions. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32330 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:53:12 GMT Kinect for Windows Version 1.0 of Microsoft's SDK and runtime were made available for download, and the company's distribution partners in twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32329 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:41:31 GMT Microsoft slammed search rival Google with newspaper ads Wednesday, saying that recent changes at Google that allow it to merge the data it collects on user activity across services such as YouTube and Gmail are meant to allow advertisers to better target customers. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32328 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:08:19 GMT Facebook has filed to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32327 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:41:10 GMT Internet Explorer's share jumped by its largest-ever increase and Chrome posted its biggest one-month loss, Net Applications Web metrics company said today. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32326 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:31:57 GMT Nikon today introduced twelve (!) new digital cameras to the COOLPIX S-series, L-series and P-series lineup. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32325 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:40:08 GMT LG Electronics Inc swung to a profit in the fourth quarter as its latest smartphone model helped its ailing handset unit post a small profit after six consecutive quarterly losses. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32324 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:32:43 GMT Sony said on Wednesday that Vice President Kazuo Hirai will take over the roles of CEO and president on April 1 from Howard Stringer, who will retain the chairman's post. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32323 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:19:07 GMT Later this month Pioneer will release the BDR-S07J series of BDXL burners in Japan this month. The drive supports 6x recording with BDXL and 12x with BD media and will retail for about $200. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32322 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:42:39 GMT Intel is sampling an Atom-based system-on chip for servers and announced a new system using one of its Xeon processors. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32321 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:28:18 GMT Symantec ahs released a patch that eliminates known vulnerabilities affecting customers using pcAnywhere 12.0 and pcAnywhere 12.1. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32320 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:22:32 GMT Firefox 10 for Windows, Mac and Linux adds built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32319 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:06:41 GMT The NVIDIA GeForce 295.51 beta drivers are available to download. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32318 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:04:17 GMT Apple today released Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, an update to its professional video editing application. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32317 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:46:13 GMT The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has used certain of its standard essential patent rights to distort competition in European mobile device markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32316 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:06:31 GMT Panasonic today introduced the LUMIX DMC-ZS20, the LUMIX DMC-TS4 and the waterproof LUMIX TS20 digital cameras. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32315 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:42:50 GMT CyberLink today launched the new PowerDVD 12 Ultra, the latest version of its Blu-Ray and Media Player. The software includes the PowerDVD Mobile v.4 and PowerDVD Remote v.2 apps to offer a universal multimedia player for the Windows, iOS and Android platforms. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32314 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:18:14 GMT Canalys today announced that Apple, after reporting stellar results, became the leading worldwide client PC vendor in Q4 2011. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32313 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:16:47 GMT Promoting its alternative language to JavaScript, Google is working to bridge JavaScript to Google Dart, with the release Monday of an application that the company is calling its JavaScript to Dart Synonym app. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32312 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:16:17 GMT AMD today announced the release of the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card, built on the latest AMD 28nm Radeon HD7950 "Tahiti PRO" GPU with PCI Express Gen 3 support. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32311 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:15:36 GMT A court in California rejected Oracle's bid to use a fraud claim to undo an agreement to support the Itanium processor, that it is said to have made with Hewlett-Packard. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32310 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:14:50 GMT McAfee today announced the next generation of McAfee Mobile Security software, providing smartphone and tablet owners with more controls to preserve their privacy and protection against financial fraud, identity theft and viruses. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32309 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:14:22 GMT Previously announced at AT&T's Developer Summit, the Samsung Galaxy Note arrives in carbon blue and ceramic white at AT&T stores beginning Feb. 19 for $299.99 with a two-year agreement. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32308 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:53:49 GMT Intel has released seven new Sandy Bridge based CPUs. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32307 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:44:33 GMT The DVD Forum will go into hybernation after 15 years of operations. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32306 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:24:51 GMT Research In Motion (RIM) today announced general availability of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 ? a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry smartphones. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32305 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:17:04 GMT This morning, Microsoft annoucned the beginning of the "Office 15" Technical Preview Program, the codename for the next generation of the Microsoft Office products and services. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32304 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:40:06 GMT Fifteen email service and technology providers today announced DMARC.org, a technical working group that has been developing standards for reducing the threat of deceptive emails, such as spam and phishing. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32302 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:07:15 GMT Micron Technology will reportedly buy a US$500 million share stake in Japan rival Elpida Memory, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32300 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:57:01 GMT Tilera on Monday announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from Intel in performance-per-watt. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32299 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:36:49 GMT Sony's newest Cyber-shot digital cameras include three models, the DSC-TX200V model from the ultra-thin Cyber-shot T series and the DSC-WX70 and DSC-WX50 models from the stylish W series. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32298 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:26:54 GMT The digital music business saw unprecedented global expansion in 2011, while key steps forward were taken in several markets to help tackle digital piracy, IFPI reported. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32297 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:10:02 GMT Globalfoundries CEO Ajit Manocha has praised his firm for what he called a "remarkable quarter" in Q411, and promised that the foundry was on track to "keep the momentum going," after a year plagued with difficulties and setbacks. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32296 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:55:11 GMT SanDisk has begun production of NAND flash memory using 19nm process technology and hopes that transition to the new process will generate a further cost reduction and higher performance. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32295 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:40:08 GMT Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and Facebook today announced a lawsuit against the co-owners of Adscend Media, LLC, an ad network that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam through misleading tactics, including the one known as "clickjacking." http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32294 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:21:26 GMT Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets to conform to the demands of specific countries. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32293 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:07:22 GMT Apple overtook Samsung Electronics as the world's top smartphone maker in the fourth quarter of last year, with the South Korean company selling about half a million fewer smartphones than its rival, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Friday. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32292 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:59:59 GMT As part of its corporate goal to meet the demands of a changing marketplace, Onkyo today announced a strategic alliance with TEAC. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32291 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:52:17 GMT Samsung Electronics on Friday reported a record operating profit of 5.3 trillion won ($4.72 billion) in the fourth quarter, thanks largely to booming smartphone sales. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32290 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:05:59 GMT The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) plans to create an application that would allow it to better mine social media content, in an attempt to more accurately identify, target and fight threats in real-time. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32289 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:44:56 GMT Google is taking bird's eye view to a whole new level with the latest version of Google Earth, released today. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32288 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:44:26 GMT NVIDIA today released a new version of its CUDA parallel computing platform, which will make it easier for researchers and engineers to advance their simulations and computational work by using GPUs. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32287 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:13:39 GMT Apple could be working on a new touchscreen universal remote control that works with your TV. The company has filed a patent for such a device last year, according to AppleInsider. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32286 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:02:41 GMT RealNetworks has signed an agreement to sell a significant number of its patents and its next generation video codec software to Intel for a purchase price of $120 million. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32285 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:24:06 GMT According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global tablet shipments reached 27 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011. Android jumped to a record 39 percent global share, while Apple iOS maintained its strong leadership at 58 percent. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32284 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:23:23 GMT Western Digital will demonstrate the fast data transfer rates of its upcoming My Book Thunderbolt Duo dual-drive storage system at the Macworld/iWorld show. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32283 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:19:46 GMT Toshiba is aiming at making e-readers popular in Japan with the release of the Android-based BookPlace DB50. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32282 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:58:41 GMT Nintendo posted a 61 percent drop in quarterly operating profit on Thursday and forecasted an operating loss for the year to March. The company also confirmed plans to launch Wii U along with Nintendo Network - an online platform similar to that of the Xbox 360 and the PS3 - in time for the year-end shopping season. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32281 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:56:02 GMT Sony's 'CLEFIA,' cryptography technique was adopted as one of the ISO/IEC 29192 International Standards in lightweight cryptography. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32280 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:55:02 GMT HP today began executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform?s source code available under an open source license. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32279 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:54:21 GMT AMD has just released AMD Catalyst 12.1 for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms, and AMD Catalyst 12.2 Preview driver for Windows Vista and Windows 7. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32278 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:53:26 GMT Samsung Electronics has fully incorporated S-LCD, its joint venture with Sony established in 2004, as one of its fully-owned subsidiaries. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32277 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:51:58 GMT LG said Thursday that it would release a new 5-inch smart device, which will combine the charatceristics of a smartphone and a tablet computer. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32276 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:11:31 GMT Motorola Mobility has filed a new lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of infringing its technology patents. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32275 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:17:06 GMT Symantec aknowledged the risks of using its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs due to known vulnerability risks. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32274 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:11:09 GMT Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company , today announced the AWS Storage Gateway, a service that provides enterprises with a new option to upload data to the AWS cloud. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32273 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:34:51 GMT Despite the excitement surrounding the introduction of active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) TVs at this month's CES, global shipments of the sets will be limited during the next few years because of high prices caused by manufacturing challenges and expensive materials. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32272 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:35:34 GMT The European Commission has today proposed a reform of the EU's 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe's digital economy. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32271 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:39:13 GMT LG Electronics announced today that sales of its Optimus LTE smartphone have exceeded over one million units. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32270 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:38:01 GMT Over the next few weeks, every Facebook user will get timeline as Facebook will start requiring people to switch to the new profile format. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32269 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:37:32 GMT Toshiba today announced the latest status of the resumption of manufacturing at Toshiba Group facilities in Thailand, in the aftermath of the flooding that inundated the country last year. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32267 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:35:55 GMT Google has started alerting users of its products that it's changing the way it treats users' data, combining even more information it knows about them from all of its products, from Gmail to YouTube. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32264 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:35:12 GMT NVIDIA today announced that it expects revenue for the fourth quarter ending Jan. 29, 2012, to be lower than the company's previous outlook, saying it has been hit by a shortage of hard drives. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32263 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:33:47 GMT Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported a fourth-quarter net loss Tuesday on weak sales of graphics chips and charges related to a restructuring. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32262 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:32:59 GMT Apple's quarterly results blew past Wall Street's expectations after U.S. consumers purchased unprecedented numbers of iPhones and iPads. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32261 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:28:37 GMT Dell OEM Solutions division will offer customizable, integrated systems based on SUSE Linux Enterprise with services and support for its customers worldwide. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32260 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:29 GMT Strangeloop, a Vancoover company that provides website acceleration solutions, today announced a commercial product that automatically offers the benefits of Google's experimental SPDY protocol without requiring changes to the site owner's code or servers. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32259 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:41 GMT Apple has lost a bid on Tuesday to have Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer banned in the Netherlands in a Dutch appeals case over infringing copyrights of its iPad tablet computer. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32258 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:59:54 GMT Google's researchers claims that they will speed up the Internet by improving the transport layer of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32257 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:59:21 GMT Popular open source content management system (CMS) Joomla has just released Joomla 2.5. Along with new features such as advanced search and automatic notification of Joomla core and extension updates, the Joomla CMS for the first time includes multi-database support with the addition of Microsoft SQL Server. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32256 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:47:49 GMT B&O PLAY, Bang & Olufsen?s new brand, has announced its first product offering, the Beolit 12 portable music system. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32255 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:46:55 GMT Other World Computing (OWC) will showcase its new OWC Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G Solid State Drive at Macworld. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32254 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:24:31 GMT File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is expanding its reach into letting users download "physical objects" http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32253 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:03:26 GMT The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have fined Nokia A$55,000 ($58,000) for spamming customers and said the Finnish company should change its text message (SMS) marketing. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32252 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:02:40 GMT Hewlett-Packard will pay US$425,000 to settle a claim that it knowingly sold laptops with hazardous batteries that could overheat or catch fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Monday. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32251 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:01:54 GMT Although Texas Instruments reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter chip sales, the company will close older factories to cut costs. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32250 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:40:32 GMT Western Digital today reported revenue of $2.0 billion, hard-drive unit shipments of 28.5 million and net income of $145 million, or $0.61 per share, for its second fiscal quarter ended Dec. 30, 2011. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32249 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:38:28 GMT Google+ is set to finally allow users to create accounts using pseudonyms, although the company will still require users to prove their identity behind their pseudonym. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32248 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:43 GMT Elpida Memory, Inc. today announced the development of its first high-speed non-volatile resistance memory (ReRAM) prototype. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32247 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:58:10 GMT Pioneer has announced the BDR-PR1, a Blu-ray disc burner designed to offer reliable BD recordings for for long-term archival. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32246