Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war
Intel and AMD on Thursday said they will settle all legal disputes, including antitrust litigation, for $1.25 billion. AMD CEO Dirk Meyer said the settlement ushers in a “new era” in the chip industry. But Intel CEO Paul Otellini was a bit defiant in a conference call this morning, saying that there would be no changes to the company’s business practices because the company has not acted illegally.
AMD Unveils Two-Year Processor Road Map
AMD has laid out its road map for processors through 2011, with an emphasis on a complete computing experience featuring stunning graphics and video. AMD also is on track to deliver a new line of Fusion processors to lower power consumption. For next year, AMD will release multi-core processors for notebook graphics.
Microsoft Insists Windows 7 Not Copied from Mac OS
Microsoft is denying comments by partner manager Simon Aldous that Windows 7 copies the "Mac look and feel" in graphics. Not so, Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc quickly wrote in the Windows Blog. Aldous also called Vista "far more stable" than Mac OS X. An analyst noted the irony of Windows 7 arguments, since it was supposed to just refresh Vista.
Google's SPDY protocol will speed up the web - and Chrome OS, too
Over at the Chromium blog, Google has announced a project they've been working on called 'SPeeDY.' It's an updated transport protocol for the web which improves upon HTTP, reducing latency through network-fu like multiplexed streams, request prioritization, and header compression.
Find and Get Rid of Old Files with an Advanced Explorer Search
It's easy to visualize your hard drive usage by file size to get rid of big files you don't need, but if you want to hunt down the files you haven't used in ages, this quick search query can help.
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