McAfee Update is Shutting Down Windows XP PCs

A bad update issued today for McAfee for Windows XP is causing computers

worldwide to shutdown and sent itself in a loop of restarts. Engadget received the following statement from McAfee regarding the continuing incident:

Google's purchase of start-up company

Tuesday Reuters (via peHUB) reported that Google's latest acquisition was Agnilux, a "stealth" chip start-up company located in San Jose, California. Although no specific details were provided in regards to the transaction, Agnilux comprises of former employees from both Apple and TiVo, both of which came from chip manufacturer P.A. Semi.
Apple acquired P.A. Semi back in 2008 for $278 million, and thus produced the current CPU (A4) used in the iPad. While many employees remained with Apple during the acquisition, others went on to secretly launch Agnilux using proceeds from the company's purchase. The New York Times believes that Agnilux may begin working on a server chip for Google.

Facebook shuts down Lite site

Facebook has shut down its Lite site which was aimed at users who had dial up or poor internet connections.

The lite version only ran for seven months and Facebook has posted a note on its own fan page saying it had "learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down site". The problem was that the site was not being used, mostly because too much much Facebook was cut out from it. Especially the bits that the social notworking site made case from.

MANY countries raising privacy concerns about Google mapping

New Zealand, Canada, France and seven other countries are raising privacy concerns about Google's mapping service. The problem is not so much the fact that the search outfit is taking snaps of everything on the road but the problem that it is linking the whole thing to social notworking. The officials complained that Google forgets people's privacy rights as it rolls out new technologies. Most of the problems are to do with Buzz, which Google launched in February as part of its Gmail service.

Apple reports record breaking quarter

Apple has posted a record breaking quarter and the outfit claims it is the one of its best quarters ever, which is quite impressive considering the state of the global economy.

Apple reported $13.5 billion of revenue in Q1 and its profits soared to $3.07 billion, or $3.3 per share. Oddly enough, iPhone shipments are still growing, despite the fact that an entirely new model is just a couple of months away. Apple shipped 8.75 million iPhones in the first quarter, 131 percent more than in Q1 2009. Sales of Apple's iPod media players stayed stagnant at 10.9 million units.

32nmSandy Bridge will also be in 35W version

Intel's next generation 32nm design, also known as Sandy Bridge, will enable low power CPUs with as little as 35W Thermal Design Power (TDP).

The lower TDP matters for notebooks and some quad-cores already have 65W TDP.  It's also important in the server market, as these guys wants to save as much as they can on their electricity bill.