Intel Wins Simulated Moorestown vs. iPad Battle

Intel's Atom running Chrome in Windows XP beats the Apple iPad running Safari.

Earlier this week Intel launched a new generation of Atom system-on-chip processors that are aimed capturing a share of the mobile market. Current and previous Atom chips have done an amazing job at monopolizing netbook hardware, but now Intel wants to go after the devices such as cell phones and tablets – an area dominated by ARM.

Right now, the king of ARM processors for mobile devices appears to be Apple A4 chip, which is widely believed to be a Samsung Cortex A8 chip clocked up to 1GHz. Apple touts the iPad as being incredibly fast, and hands-on experience has shown that the device is incredible smooth with the iPhone OS. But a new simulated test shows that Intel is faster, even while running Windows XP.

UMPC Portal ran a browser test between an iPad and Viliv X70, which has its Menlow-based Atom platform running at 800MHz. While this isn't a test between Moorestown and the ARM-based A4, the practical architectures between Menlow and Moorestown should be quite similar.

In a webpage loading test, the 800MHz Atom Menlow running the latest Chrome on Windows XP matched the loading speeds of Safari on the iPad. When the Atom was cranked up to Menlow's 1.3GHz ceiling, the Windows XP tablet was able to load faster than the iPad – even with Flash enabled. The simulation leads us to believe that the Moorestown running at a 1.5GHz speed would be even faster.

New Yahoo! Ad Slams Google for Being Too Bare

Yahoo!'s latest ad criticizes Google for driving users away with its minimalist and bare homepage.

Yahoo! has definitely come up with a clever way to differentiate itself from the competition and the, "You go there to leave" line is very strong. However, Google has always prided itself on being minimalist and only allowing bare essentials onto its homepage. The company even has a limit on how many words can appear there. Yahoo! is the opposite, preferring to brand itself as a portal. Google could just as easily fire back that Yahoo! is far too crowded and distracts users from what they're there to do.! is launching a new, $85 million ad campaign based around the company's still relatively new 'It's You' slogan. The Wall Street Journal carries the first commercial from this campaign and Yahoo! certainly isn't taking any prisoners; this one targets Google and the fact that "you come to this place so you can leave."

The voiceover for the commercial explains a theory people supposedly have about homepages. This theory is that the homepage should get you where you want to go and there should be nothing more to look at than a box and a button.

AT&T to Pay You Money Back For Your Slow DSL

Get ready to roll in pocket change!

If you've been an AT&T DSL subscriber after March 31, 1994, you may be entitled to some money from AT&T thanks to a class action settlement.

According to the IDG news service, current and past customers of AT&T DSL who had their DSL speeds configured by AT&T at a lower speed than promised in the plan is eligible for $2.90 per month while affected.

Those who had their DSL speeds configured by AT&T correctly but still experienced slower than expected speeds are eligible for a $2 per month settlement.

Finally, those who said that they experienced slower speeds but AT&T believes received the service they paid for will be eligible for a single $2 payment.

If that applies to you, then hit up this website here to file your claim before June 1, 2010.

In addition to the settlement sums, AT&T will make a $3.75 million charitable contribution on top of paying $11 million in legal fees.

Adobe Promises Best Tools in the World for HTML5

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch believes the Web is big enough for both Flash and HTML5.

The whole Apple vs. Adobe thing has been going on for weeks and it all started when Steve Jobs said the world was moving toward HTML5. With a comment like that, it sounded like Steve believed it was a case of either Adobe or HTML5 and that the web wasn't big enough for both of them to thrive. However, Adobe is of a different frame of mind.

Speaking at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch pledged support for the new version of HTML. Responding to a question posed by host Brady Forrest who asked how Adobe would react to HMTL5, Lynch replied that his company would build the best tools for HTML5.

"I wouldn’t say reacting to HTML5. We see whatever people are using to express themselves. … We’re going to make great tooling for HTML5. We’re going to make the best tools in the world for HTML 5," he declared. "It’s not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They’re mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web."

Lynch goes on to criticize Apple for trying to create a walled garden and said that when it comes to the issue Apple has with Adobe, it's not that the technology doesn’t work, it's that it does. The CTO added that being the only company that isn't participating isn't exactly a favorable position to be in at the end of the day.

"We’re working through the Open Screen Project. Have over 70 partners working with Adobe on that," Lynch explained. "There’s a lot of great devices coming out over the course of the second half of this year and next year, going forward. All the innovation coming from all those companies will dwarf what’s coming from that one company that isn’t participating."

Blizzard Integrating Battle.net with Facebook

Blizzard is making it easier for us to brag about our StarCraft II conquests via Facebook.

We may be giddy with excitement when it comes to release dates and pre-orders for StarCraft II but Blizzard has another announcement for us: the company is planning to integrate Battle.net and Facebook to allow StarCraft II fans to share and connect with other fans on Facebook.

CNet reports that the first step of the integration will see Blizzard enable StarCraft II players to easily add Blizzard gamers from their Facebook friends list to their Battle.net friend lists. Another feature will allow you to brag about scores, presumably via status update.

That's it for now in terms of details but Blizzard is promising "information about other Facebook-related features on Battle.net will be announced at a later date."