Credit Card Phishing Site Found on Sony Servers

Uh oh ...

Poor Sony hasn’t had an easy time as of late. Between PSN going down, discovering the information of 77 million users had been stolen, facing questions from Congress, and a new password exploit that could see customer’s accounts compromised, the company has certainly been busy fending off a storm of bad PR. Today the company was dealt another blow as it emerged that a credit card phishing scam is apparently running on one of the its servers.

LinkedIn Shares Double in NYSE Debut

LinkedIn, the social network aimed squarely at professionals eager to connect with colleagues and score potential business opportunities, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, and things are looking extremely bright for the company.

TechCrunch yesterday reported that LinkedIn had priced its IPO (Initial Public Offering) at $45.00 per share. That per-share figure amounts to a $4.5 billion valuation. The company, which posted Q1 revenues of $93.9 million, was said to be aiming to raise as much as $406 million in the offering.

"Today marks an important milestone in LinkedIn’s history – we started trading at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – following our recent IPO filing," Nick Besbeas, VP of Marketing at LinkedIn said in a blog post. "Our stock symbol is LNKD (as you may have guessed from this post) and we’ve announced our initial public offering of 7,840,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $45.00 per share."

Intel: Our Nokia Partnership Was a Mistake

Hindsight is always 20/20, right?

Following the announcement of their landmark partnership, Nokia and Microsoft have been acting like a pair of newlyweds and singing each other's praises. However, it seems one of the Finnish phone company’s other partners isn’t quite so pleased with the way its relationship with Nokia panned out.

Intel: No, We're Not Using Arm To Create CPUs

Why would Intel even think of using ARM's technology when it already has a plans to dominate the mobile sector with its x86 architecture?

Evidently there's some silly notion that Intel plans to use ARM's technology to build mobile processors despite anything the company may have previously said to shoot down such an idea. Sigh.

The main reason behind the speculation of an Intel/ARM marriage is that, according to experts, Intel's x86 architecture, originally intended for the PC platform, will be "inherently tough" to adapt into mobile chips. Thus, using ARM's architecture would be a better, quicker option given that Intel is a late-comer to the mobile sector.

Samsung Announces Retina Tablet Display

Samsung will be revealing an ultra-high resolution display for tablets at the SID Display Week 2011, which will opened its doors over the weekend.

The 10.1-inch screen features a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels, which is four times the pixel density of common 10.1" (Android) tablets such as the Motorola Xoom (1280x800 pixels). Apple's iPad and iPad 2, by the way run with 1024xz768 pixels.

The Samsung display has a density of 300 dpi, which falls just short of the iPhone 4's 326 dpi an could be considered the first "Retina" display for tablets. According to the manufacturer, the screen delivers a brightness of 300 cd/m2 indoor and outdoor as much as 600 cd/m2 to, which should be enough to see content on the display even in direct sunlight.