While we would expect a barrage of new CPU announcements from someone like Intel or AMD, it’s been ARM of late pushing out the new silicon. Just days after showcasing its first 32 nanometer chip, the company responsible for the Cortex line has announced the smallest, lowest power and most energy-efficient ARM processor available. The Cortex-M0 is capable of consuming as little as 85 microwatts/MHz (0.085 milliwatts) in an area of under 12K gates when using the ARM 180ULL cell library, and if ARM is to be believed,

The ASUS N10 is a netbook that combines both elegance and performance in a 10.2″ WSVGA netbook that weighs in at just 3.1 pounds. The ASUS N10Jc-A1 offers all the standard features one would expect on a netbook, but it includes switchable dedicated graphics. With a flick of a switch you can enable and disable the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS graphics! Read on to check this out!

Last April, Seagate sued SSD manufacturer STEC, charging that STEC had violated four of its patents relating to error correction, memory-backup systems, and storage interfaces with computers. However, late last week STEC announced that Seagate had dropped its lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit was dropped after “extensive discovery and evaluation of STEC’s intellectual property and technology.” No money was exchanged and no licensing of technology occurred. In other words, Seagate realized it made a mistake.

Perhaps Microsoft used Excel when they calculated the severance packages of some of the 1,400 workers they recently laid off. At any rate, apparently they made some errors, and are now asking some of those laid-off workers for some of their severance package back. According to a report by TechCrunch, the letters have been sent to more than one person, and it appears some may have even been underpaid. However, no one has been informed as to what went wrong in the calculations (at least via the letter; see below

The world’s favorite VoIP calling application is making a beeline for your next Nokia handset, and believe it or not, that’s perfectly okay with Nokia. During last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Skype and Nokia teamed up to jointly announced a new partnership that would bring the planet’s “leading Internet communications experience to the Nokia range of mobile computers.” The deal lays out that Skype will be integrated from the factory into Nokia’s flagship N97 starting in Q3 2009, and a number of

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Best Buy is offering a significant discount to members of its Reward Zone loyalty points program, for one week only. From Feb. 22 to Feb. 28, those who were members prior to Feb. 21st can get $50 off an iPhone 3G, or $100 off if you are a Premier Silver Member. Premier Silver Members are those who have spent $2,500 at Best Buy during a single calendar year; they are automatically upgraded from the normal membership level. Membership is free, by the way. This brings the price of an 8GB iPhone 3G to as low as

It’s the end of an era, so to speak. With Sony suffering a Q4 that even the most bitter rival wouldn’t wish on its competitors, the company has seen fit to shut the doors on its US flagship PlayStation store in San Francisco, California. With company sales in the dumps and some 16,000 Sony jobs already on the way out, the corporation has decided it best to not renew its lease on the PlayStation Store in the Metreon retail center when it expires on June 16th. Sony spokeswoman Liz Archibald said of the closing:

Whenever we look at browser stats from various market research firms, we’re surprised by the number of Internet Explorer 6 users there still are. Apparently annoyed by all these users who seemingly still having joined the “tabbed” browser generation, a prominent Norwegian Web site is fostering a movement kick IE6 to the curb. FINN.no, which calls itself Norway’s biggest online market place, has started a campaign against IE6. In their press release (.PDF) about the campaign, they emphasize it is not an anti-Microsoft

You may have never heard of Pixel Qi, but we’ll wager that you’ve heard of One Laptop Per Child. Mary Lou Jepsen, the company’s founder and CEO, left OLPC in 2007 in order to focus on creating her own $75 laptop using technologies she invented at OLPC. Needless to say, the departure was quite controversial in its day, but now the company has moved on to focusing specifically on creating low-power displays. Just days ago, the outfit admitted that it was ready to “soon start shipping” low-power screens that increase