Put this in your rumor bucket for now, but the Financial Times says Apple is in discussion with the music industry over a possible “all you can eat” music plan for iTunes.Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about a radical new business model that would give customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices.The “all you can eat” model, a replica of Nokia’s “comes with music” deal with Universal Music last December, could

VLC Player is a very useful media player, as it can play almost any sort of video codec you can name, and it’s free. But if you like using VLC Player to look at the media files you acquire as you make your way across the video landscape, beware: the latest version of VLC has a big security flaw. The problem occurs when a someone loads a subtitle file, which causes a buffer overflow that can be exploited. The security flaw is platform independent, which means it affects Windows, Mac and Linux users.Initially

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While it’s just a rumor at this point, it seems that NVIDIA is planning on breaking into the CPU business.  This isn’t exactly surprising as the not-to-distant future looks like a place where CPUs have a dedicated GPU onboard and the future of add-in cards is unclear.“NVIDIA and VIA discussed three possible scenarios, including a strategic alliance, acquisition of only VIA’s processor division, or the acquisition of the entire company, according to the sources. Though no deal was agreed upon, since VIA

CORSAIR ANNOUNCES 2GHz HIGH-SPEED DDR3 MEMORY FOR NVIDIA 790i ULTRA SLI GAMING PLATFORMNew Family of NVIDIA SLI Specific DDR3 Modules Deliver Full Range of Enthusiast Memory SpeedsFremont, CA, March 18, 2008 – Corsair® http://www.corsair.com, a worldwide leader in enthusiast computer and flash memory products, announced today their NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI high-performance DDR3 partner memory offerings, including a record-breaking 2GHz module.After extensive partnership efforts between NVIDIA and Corsair,

It’s here, it’s here!  Now those of you daring enough to try it without waiting can risk your systems and your sanity.Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. For those of you eager to receive the benefits of Windows Vista SP1 – you can now do so! We’ve seen quite a bit of questions in our comments so we want to communicate as much as possible surrounding Windows Vista SP1 and today’s release to Windows Update as we can.For those of you happy to wait – sit tight because SP1 will

Three major camps have formed out of the 25 companies sued by SanDisk over NAND flash-related patent infringement, with Kingston Technology's camp taking the lead in fighting against SanDisk, according to sources at Taiwan memory makers. Of the various companies being sued, Kingston and Phison Electronics have taken the lead role in fighting the lawsuit. A second camp is being led by A-Data Technology, Afa Technologies and Skymedi and the third is led by Apacer Technology, Transcend Information and Silicon Motion, the sources revealed.

Reviewing relationships between companies in the same camp, most of them have pre-existing investment relationships, implying that they are unlikely to join other camps over the lawsuit, the sources noted. Some memory makers commented that SanDisk suit is primarily driven by Kingston's growing position in the NAND flash market, especially in Asia and emerging markets. Most involved companies think that the lawsuit is more a dispute between SanDisk and Kingston because Kingston is putting up the strongest opposition in fighting the allegations, while many of the involved parties are happy to adopt a wait-and-see attitude as their sales contribution from the US is relatively low.

Intel’s announcement about their forthcoming CPU architectures hasn’t fazed AMD.  In fact AMD claims that the integrated memory controller and QPI sound a lot like features AMD CPUs have had for several years now.  What’s even better is that AMD more or less tipped their hand regarding AMD’s future CPUs:On Dunnington (AMD’s Randy) Allen said that AMD’s forthcoming Shanghai will be 45nm. “In 2009 we will have enhancement to hyper threading with HT3, DDR3 technology and eight cores or more. We’ll have

After all the buzz surrounding the low-cost Classmate PC laptop it designed for school kids in other countries, Intel is talking to computer manufacturers about offering an updated retail version in this country within months for less than $500.

We're expecting to see Classmate PC in the U.S. by the end of this year,” said Agnes Kwan, a spokeswoman with the Santa Clara chip maker. “In the past 18 months, we've been getting a really good response from customers . . . as well as from consumers asking about the product. We realized there was a big interest out there.” Although the second-generation laptop is expected to cost from $250 to $350 to make, it would be priced higher for retail sale after it's loaded with various software applications, Kwan said.

AMD is planning to launch a Radeon HD 3830 graphics chip for the mid-range/entry-level market, according to sources at graphics card makers. Cards are expected to launch in April or May. The 3830 will have a 128-bit memory interface, 320 stream processing units, 16 texture filtering units and 16 ROPs, and will support memory capacities up to 256MB. The card will be positioned between AMD's Radeon HD 3850 and 3650 and will target the gap between Nvidia's GeForce 9600GT and 8600GTS with a price lower than US$129.

Several graphics card makers already plan to launch overclocked versions of the card, boosting the core frequency to even higher levels, while using faster memory chips, noted the sources. AMD also notified its partners that if Radeon HD 3830 does not perform as it expected, the company might cut the price of its Radeon HD 3870, 3850 and 3830 some time in the second quarter in order to grab more market share, added the sources.