A showdown between Hulu and the 3-year-old YouTube was inevitable. Consider that Hulu, the joint video venture formed by NBC Universal and News Corp., attracts only a fraction of the 80 million people who visit YouTube each month, but Hulu still managed to generate nearly the same revenue in its first year in business, [...]

Fears aside, the lure of SSDs is speed–and this is what is driving Seagate into the market. “For SSDs, the play is performance, performance, performance. Did I mention performance?” Vignes said.
“SSDs have 100 times better random IOPS than HDDs,” Wong said, referring to the dramatic speed advantage SSDs have over HDDs in handling input-output [...]

The network will cover more than 20 square miles in the heart of Silicon Valley and will bring 4G wireless service to campuses of big technology companies, such as Google and Intel. Service is expected to be available to developers by late summer of this year. The company is offering the service free to developers [...]

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has a solid analysis of Facebook’s current financial system, and his outlook isn’t good. To boot, he says, Facebook Chief Financial Officer Gideon Yu has been spotted in Dubai, possibly meeting with investors to raise more cash for the company.
Here are Facebook’s current problems, per Arrington: Three-quarters of its users are now [...]

Everybody knows what it’s like to hear really good songs back-to-back only to lose that good vibe when the next tune is a dud.

“The only thing they’re missing is a way to slip a song they want you to buy into the playlist,” McQuivey said. “If they could get the rights to do that, [...]

“I’m pleased to announce that Android Market is now accepting priced applications from US and UK developers,” said Eric Chu in a blog post Friday. “Initially, priced applications will be available to end users in the US starting mid next week.”

Support in other countries will follow. “We will also enable developers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, [...]

“We achieved a significant milestone with the recent announcement of our Asset Smart strategy, which will transform both AMD and the industry,” Dirk Meyer, AMD’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
Analysts were impressed by the numbers. “Even in a normal environment this would be a pretty remarkable achievement. In today’s environment, it’s extraordinary,” [...]

At one point, the company sold wireless networking gear, though it got out of that business in 2004.

The company on Tuesday introduced its first Notebook Cooling Base, an inch-thick stand with built-in fan. Available in white and black, the laptop-chiller is powered over a USB connection.

Microsoft on Tuesday also announced new colors for its trendy-looking Arc Mouse. Later this month, the $50 mouse will be available in the decidedly non-beige shades of fros

Under the arrangement, Lexmark will license its patents for its printers and multifunction devices, as well as its other products, to Microsoft. And the Redmond, Wash., based company, in return, will offer access to a wide range of its software.

In a move to tie their collaboration tighter, Microsoft and Lexmark on Tuesday announced that they have entered into a broad patent cross-licensing agreement.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

“We believe