Arcam Solo Movie 5.1 Features: Audio type: Surround Surround sound type: Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, DTS Pros: Superb 5.1 surround sound, impressive video up-scaling, user-friendly on-screen menu, exhaustive format support (except for Blu-ray), AM-FM radio Cons: No inbuilt Blu-ray support, stupidly...

Check Point buys Nokia security appliance business Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has snapped up Nokia’s security appliance business for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will enable Check Point to provide an extended security appliance portfolio developed, manufactured and supported...

Samsung Electronics has reportedly been ordered to pay compensation to a Chinese company for violating a patent for a dual-mode cell phone. The Intermediate People’s Court in Hangzhou, a city in eastern China, ordered Samsung to pay 50 million yuan (US$7.3 million) to Holley Communications...

Intel and Nvidia are entering into a new, nasty phase of competition. What’s at stake? Only the future of the personal computer. Though the Santa Clara, Calif. neighbors (only a couple of miles from each other) have never really been on speaking terms, the rivalry is intensifying with the emergence of...

Yahoo puts meat on Open Strategy bones After months of preamble, Yahoo on Monday flipped the on switch for a massive project to increase activity–and advertising–on its Internet sites through social connections and online applications. The company has been working mostly behind the scenes to...