Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:09 am

Dell: Up to 12 million faulty PCs sold

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell Inc. has been accused of selling millions of faulty computers to large corporations including Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, and the Mayo Clinic, and an unknown number of small businesses, the New York Times reports. Dell employees did know that the machines did have a high potential to fail, the paper reports, citing [...]

Nexus One gets Android 2.2 first

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Android 2.2, Google's operating system for mobile devices, is coming to the Nexus One smartphone via an over-the-air update. The new version codenamed Froyo is significantly faster and supports features like push-through notifications. Android 2.2 will allow users to turn their handset into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot. With the update installed, the [...]

Web: Google Chrome moves to third place

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome continues to shine and is now the third most popular browser in the U.S., according to StatCounter, a web analytics company. Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is still leading. Combining all versions of IE, Microsoft has a market share of 52 percent, followed by Mozilla's Firefox (28.5 percent). Chrome passed Apple's [...]

Opteron 4122: First server chip for $99

Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): AMD's Opteron 4122 is the first 4-core server chip to break the $100 price barrier. The chip is part of AMD’s 4100 family of chips that come in 4- and 6-core variants to power 1 and 2P systems. What the Sunnyvale, California based company calls CoolCore technology makes them suitable for thermally constrained [...]