Premium Accounts Could Come To Twitter

As Twitter continues to grow hotter and hotter, pick up more funding, get more morons fired and facilitate more political conversations, individuals that are intimately involved with the operation are desperately looking for ways to monetize it. We’d heard whispers in the past of so-called “premium accounts,” but now it sounds like those could be inching closer to reality.According to a new report, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said that the firm has hired a product manager to “develop accounts for businesses

NVIDIA Countersues Intel Over License Conflict

 Grab a bag of popcorn, kick up your feet and enjoy the show — this one’s just getting good. After Intel filed a lawsuit against NVIDIA late last month alleging that a four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed did not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with ‘integrated’ memory controllers (like Nehalem), NVIDIA has hit back. Hard.Today, NVIDIA has bucked back by filing a countersuit in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware against Intel Corporation for breach of contract.

Alltel Still Alive & Kicking, Expands My Circle

Verizon Wireless may have completed its purchase of Alltel, but that doesn’t mean the two companies are completely operating as one yet. In fact, as you’ll recall, Verizon had to agree to sell assets in 91 overlapping markets in order to gain federal approval for its acquisition. Customers in these 91 areas will continue to receive Alltel branded service until another carrier buys the assets. In the meantime, the Alltel brand is alive and kicking in 22 states. In fact, Alltel is continuing to compete against

AMD Demonstrates Optimized Havok Middleware

AMD Demonstrates Optimized Executions of Havok Middleware on AMD platforms – Balanced Platform of CPU + GPU Processing Delivers Optimal Game Experience – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – March 26, 2009 – Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) and Havok, the premier provider of interactive software for physics simulation and content development, are presenting new, optimized executions of Havok’s physics middleware on AMD platforms at the 2009 Game Developers Conference. The demonstrations include the first OpenCL

Sprint Announces Expansion Areas for 4G WiMAX

Sprint could definitely use a boost these days, and it’s apparently hoping to get that from upcoming expansion of its Sprint 4G services. For those who haven’t followed this epic sequence of events, Sprint 4G is the new tagline for its WiMAX services, which went by “XOHM” for, oh, a day or two. After linking up with Clearwire, however, it ditched the inexplicable moniker and went with something entirely more digestible — and now, the circle of explanation is complete.At any rate, Sprint 4G is currently only

Synology Announces Business and Home NAS Devices

Synology might not be as well known in the U.S. as other network-attached storage (NAS) device manufactures such as Buffalo, Maxtor/Seagate, or QNAP; but with Synology’s announcement today of a slew of new NAS devices for small businesses and home users, Synology NAS devices might be finding their way into many more U.S. companies and homes soon. Leading off the pack of the new NAS devices is Synology’s new “flagship” business-class device, the Disk Station DS509+. The DS509+ features five hot-swappable SATA-II

Western Digital Takes My Book Line To 2TB

It follows logic, really. Western Digital has a 2TB hard drive, so why not shove that very drive into Western Digital’s line of external hard drives? This week, WD has expanded its popular My Book family of external HDDs to include a 2TB capacity, the largest available capacity in a single-drive system. Specifically, the new 2TB My Book family includes: My Book Studio Edition, My Book Mac Edition, My Book Home Edition and My Book Essential Edition models. Sure, 2TB isn’t all that much bigger than 1.5TB, but

March 26 News from Around the Web

ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi Motherboard Review @ TweakTown and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“Today we have been given an Intel Core 2 series supporting ITX model on steroids in the form of the 9300-ITX WiFi. Costing a mere $145 USD from Newegg its priced right, but will it perform? Lets have a look.

Today we have the new 9300-ITX WiFi board up against our 610i and 630i based boards from ZOTAC; this just to see if this new board is able to outperform the previous generation boards.”