It has been learnt from reliable sources at AMD that after the recent update of its 45nm consumer desktop CPU schedule, the motherboard and chip-maker company is thinking to unveil six 45nm processors for its business class lineup in the third quarter of 2009.

The names of the planned CPUs revealed by the sources are the dual-core Athlon X2 B23 (2.9GHz/2MB) and B21 (2.7GHz/2MB), triple-core Phenom II X3 B73
(2.8GHz/7.5MB) and B71 (2.6GHz/7.5MB), and quad-core Phenom II X4 B93 (2.8GHz/8MB) and B91 (2.6GHz/8MB).

Recently, the harmonious functioning of Twitter was disrupted, when the micro-blogging website, that lets the users to broadcast short messages to groups of followers laned as a target of a wave of hacking and phishing attacks.

On Monday, it was confirmed by the San Francisco Company that a total number of accounts hijacked were 33, including those of President-elect Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears, and CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez.

New silicon for Netbooks is expected to be launched by Freescale Semiconductor at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas which it believes will come in below $200. 

According to to Freescale, formerly Motorola's chipmaking arm, “The ARM chip architecture-based i.MX51 processor is designed to enable low-power, gigahertz performance netbooks at sub-$200 price points.”

TATA group owned Tata Consultancy Services started its new IT development center in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. The development came when entire IT sector is facing the heat of global financial crisis. The new center was inaugurated by Orissa Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik in a function held in state's capital. 

The function was also attended by Surjya Narayan Patro, Minister of Energy, Culture & Information Technology, Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, IT, Orissa and TCS leadership team of S Ramadorai besides Managing director of Tata Steel, B Muthuraman.

IBM has entered into a US$5 million IT services agreement with Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (Kotak) to further strengthen latter’s position as one of the leading banking and financial services provider in India.

Under the arrangement, IBM will design, build and maintain a highly scalable, energy-efficient green data center as well as the converged IP network infrastructure for the client.

On Thursday, it was announced by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy that the recent developments in the software giant Satyam group are not going to affect major projects in the state.

Reddy said to a pointed question on the fate of projects like the Hyderabad Metro Rail, entrusted to Maytas, “Satyam is Satyam. Maytas is Maytas. Right now we don't see any problem. Maytas will do it.”