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Corsair just announced three additions to its Force Series line of solid-state hard drives. The additions include the F60, F120, and F240 hard drives, which offer 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB of storage, respectively.

All three new models support the maximum throughput of 285MB-per-second read and 275MB-per-second write. The company suggest using the F60 as a boot drive for a performance system, combining that with a traditional spinning drive for mass storage.

The three new models will be available in June, 2010. While pricing hasn’t been announced, you know these beauties won’t go cheap.

We’ve known RIM has had a WebKit-based browser in its rear pocket since Mobile World Congress, and with confirmation that BlackBerry OS 6.0 would have traces of WebKit throughout, this discovery was simply inevitable. The BlackBerry Bold 9800 (polarizing design and all) has just made its most interesting appearance yet, this time showing off a purported WebKit-based web browser with a trio of tabs collected up top. Never mind the fact that whoever was using this clearly wishes he / she was browsing on an iPhone — it’s the 100/100 Acid3 test result that really titillates. ‘Course, that could very well be a JPEG loaded up to fool us all, but we aren’t losing the faith just yet. Head on down to the source for a few more teases.

BlackBerry Bold 9800 slides open, shows off promising WebKit-based browser originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 12:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s attempt to swoop in and buy AdMob out from under Apple was looking like a Pyrrhic victory for a second there, as Federal Trade Commission approval of the deal hung in the balance based on concerns that El Goog would control far too much of the online advertising market. It’s ironic, then, that Apple’s acquisition of Quattro Wireless and the introduction of the iAd platform in iPhone OS 4 is what convinced the feds to let Google’s acquisition go through — the FTC says that Apple’s entry into the market will provide significant competition to AdMob, regardless of whether or not it’s owned by Google. That means Google’s free to pursue all the ad-based initiatives in Froyo it announced yesterday at I/O, and it means we should see the already-heated rhetoric between Mountain View and Cupertino get another notch hotter. It’s going to be a wild summer, folks — get ready.

Update: Here’s a statement from AdMob founder and CEO Omar Hamoui on the deal — he’s got a fuller piece on his blog, linked below.

“We are extremely pleased with today’s decision from the Federal Trade Commission to clear Google’s acquisition of AdMob. Over the past six months we’ve received a great deal of support from across the mobile industry – and we deeply appreciate it. Our focus is now on working with the team at Google team to quickly close the deal.”

FTC approves Google’s AdMob buy, cites Apple’s iAd competition originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 12:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ officially announced, the next question is which Android phones will get the update? Google and HTC respond. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20005602-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p

Google might be trying to shake up video on the web by releasing the WebM video format and VP8 codec under a royalty-free open-source license, but we’ve already heard the format’s uncomfortably close relationship to H.264 might cause some patent concerns, and the MPEG-LA, which licenses the H.264 patents, doesn’t seem to be sitting still. CEO Larry Horn told All Things Digital that MPEG-LA is looking into forming a patent pool in order to license vendors who want stay clear of any patent disputes while using WebM — the idea would be to avoid any patent liability down the road by simply paying for a license now, especially since Google doesn’t seem to be promising anything when it comes to protection from lawsuits. We’d wager all this means WebM will go from royalty-free to patent-encumbered just as soon as MPEG-LA gets its paperwork in order — the same thing essentially happened to Microsoft when it tried to release the VC-1 format royalty-free — and that means video on the web might soon be right back where it started. We’ll see what happens.

Google’s WebM video format might not be so free after all, says MPEG-LA originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 11:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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