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Intel goes securely by acquiring McAfee for $7.68 billion

Intel announced Thursday in a press release that they are going to acquire McAfee, Inc, a well known security-antivirus company and this deal will cost them $7.68 billion. The deal was approved by both Intel and McAfee directors and is going to be official after the McAfee shareholder approval. Renée James Intel senior vice president, and general manager of the group said "this acquisition is consistent with our software and services strategy to deliver an outstanding computing experience in fa...

Apple Mac Pro on steroids with 12-core processors, in August

Apple made a press release today at Cupertino announcing a whole new Mac Pro line. This new generation of Mac Pro will bring 50% greater performance than the previous generation. We didn't want to miss this, so we will be featuring the inside specs of a Mac Pro. The unit will weight almost 19kg, but have some awesome features. You can choose between two options. The first one will get you a new quad-core Mac Pro and costs $2,499. It will include: one 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3530 ...

Google change the search index into Caffeine

Google had announced this week on their official blog that the new search index called Caffeine is now working on the search page. We think this is a major news and we like to feature a post today to announce how Google search works now. The image posted by Google is quite clear where Google search is heading: to deliver best results in the shortest period of time. Basically this is what Caffeine does, it woks 50% faster than the old index and it provides more fresh results in real time, n...

Barcelona Mobile World Congress 2010 preview

Hello folks, This week seems to be very busy as Mobile World Congress begun this week in Barcelona, Spain(15-18 February) and there are gonna be a lot of interesting announcements. We received and expect to receive news regarding launches of new OS from Windows(Mobile), Nokia(Symbian) or some new phones from HTC, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung. Hope we have our fingers rested cause it's gonna be a long week full with previews and announcements. Enjoy it! photo credit: engadget

Lockerz or the chance to win a Gadget

Lockerz is an invitation only website created by the founders of amazon which claims to recompense users for their activity. It claims to be an activity site, where users will make several actions and they will be rewarded with PTZ. PTZ is the monetary unit used on site: either you login, play, answer questions, watch videos and so on you'll get rewarded. You can redeem the PTZ points and get: T-shirts, Laptops, PS3, Xbox360, DVD's, iPod's, Digital Cameras and much more. The site is now on...

Merry Christmas!

It's a Gadget team wish Merry Christmas to every single person in this world. Let's hope we can be careful with our family and friends and have something special to share in this period. Happy Hollidays!

Intel and Nokia join together

It seems like the most important chipset producer-Intel and the biggest mobile company-Nokia joined together to create future mobile phones. We don't know any details yet and it seems the companies try to hide a little this important partnership. It is expected that Nokia will replace the Symbyan S60 platform with a Linux based one powered with technology from the Intel processor. Intel, the leading microprocessor producer is incorporated in the 80% of personal world computers. The comp...