AMD's anticipated Radeon HD 4850, the follow-up to its 3850 GPU and rival to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 200 series, appears to have made an unscheduled early appearance on Amazon.com courtesy of board seller Diamond Multimedia.

Red Hat is now brewing its JBoss Java application server on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), marking the company's second round of making code available as an online pay-as-you-go service.

The latest round of graphics card dueling between AMD and Nvidia isn't just over high-end gamers. The vendors will also exchange blows for the hearts and wallets of your friendly neighborhood medical imagers, seismic modelers, and computational fluid dynamicists.

Exclusive Toshiba has announced a pair of laptops that use its Cell-based SpursEngine graphics chip. But don't expect the chip to work when the notebook's on the road - SpursEngine consumes too much power, Register Hardware can reveal.

Here’s how you to get to CherryPal. Gather up all of the hot technology buzzwords – cloud computing, going green, communities – and mush them together into something about the size of sandwich.

Review It's ten quid cheaper but packs in more features. Hot on the heels of Asus Eee PC 900 comes the 901, sporting not only a smart new design but also Intel's Atom processor. So is it the machine the 900 should have been?

Dell yesterday launched its top tier Certified Partner program in the hope of picking up much-needed sales from the indirect SME, server and storage market.

Nvidia today rolled out its next-generation 200-series GPUs, the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280.

Intel will introduce a trio of desktop processors based on its next-gen 'Nehalem' architecture in Q4, the latest whispers from Asian motherboard-maker moles allege.

The next year will be a critical time for OpenSolaris, according to Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian brought in by Sun Microsystems last year to lead its OS operation.

Intel will release new entry-level Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processor series next quarter, it has been claimed.

UK lags will be offered training in networking skills in a bid to bridge the skills shortage in IT.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) yesterday cut its forecast for growth in global sales of semiconductors in 2008, blaming price pressure in the memory sector.

Intel has denied keeping USB 3.0 - aka SuperSpeed USB - to itself, refuting rumours circulating around the halls at Computex last week.

AMD will release dual-core chips based on its tenth-generation, K10 core design - despite rumours to the contrary.

Toshiba will put what it claims is the world's first 1.8in, SATA-connected 160GB hard drive into mass production in August.

Intel's next-gen processor architecture, 'Nehalem', is running behind schedule - or will be seen as such when the first of the chips ship - a US market analyst has claimed.

RM yesterday announced that its head teacher honcho has resigned after more than 25 years with the computer supplier.

VMware is done digesting the application virtualization startup, Thinstall, and will be rebranding the product under a suspiciously analogous name: ThinApp.

The US Supreme court has overturned a lower court ruling that let South Korea's LG Electronics double-dip on royalty licensing.

Graphics chip buffs sceptical about Toshiba's attempt to muscle in on the market with its Cell-derived SpursEngine chip may need think again: the chip last week heartily thrashed an Intel 3GHz Core 2 Quad.

Acer today confirmed that it has finally settled an ugly ongoing patent spat with Hewlett-Packard.

AMD vs Intel The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Intel, a move that brings mounting scrutiny on Chipzilla's pricing strategy and other business practices.

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Small, Cheap Computers

Computex Asus may have focused its attention during the Computex show, held in Taipei this week, on its Atom-based Eee PC 901 and 1000 sub-notebooks, but that didn't stop it showing off its Eee Box desktop.

The launch of Dell’s miniature notebook may be pushed back until late summer and feature a keyboard that’s several keys short of a full set, one of the company’s executives has confirmed.

Computex AMD used the Computex show in Taipei this week to propose XGP - eXternal Graphics Platform, a slimline box you connect your GPU-lite laptop to when you need more graphics horsepower.

AMD vs Intel The Intel AMD antitrust case has been delayed and now won't be heard until 2010.

Computex Intel's apparently not too keen on other chipset makers building USB 3.0 - aka SuperSpeed USB - into their products. To that end, one website claims, the chip giant's not sharing its toys.

Chip companies need to start acting their age, according to a sage analyst.

Oh, those crazy kids at IBM's Zürich lab. They can't get enough of processor cooling technology.

Computex VIA has launched the second generation of its Mini-ITX micro motherboard form-factor.

AMD unveiled its marketing strategy for its Puma notebook silicon this week: rub Intel’s nose in it for as long as it can get away with it. Perhaps it’s no coincidence the launch was in Paris.

Computex Asus' President, Jerry Shen, has forecast sales of Small, Cheap Computers™ will top 10m units this year, presumably having been encouraged by Intel bigwig Sean Maloney's promise of "very, very high volumes" of Atom CPUs by September.

Intel has been fined $25m (26bn Won) by the South Korean Fair Trade commission for breaching fair trade rules.

Canonical, the corporate sugar-daddy of Ubuntu, is unveiling a new version of the operating system designed specifically for the now en vogue market of ultra low-cost laptops.