Yahoo! Ups Data Retention Period to 1.5 Years

Yahoo! has announced that it is extending the period for retention of user data from 90 days to 18 months.

On Wednesday, Anne Toth, Chief Trust Officer at Yahoo!, announced that the company would be extending the period of data retention in order to provide customers with a more “robust, individualized experience.”

Battery Concept Features USB Interface

Designers create a rechargeable AA or AAA battery concept that also allows USB charging via the interface on the side.

This extremely simple design by Hairno Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng Liu and Xiameng Hu is just a regular set of AA or AAA batteries with a USB interface embedded into the side. Dubbed Continuance, these batteries are fully rechargeable and are capable of giving some power to your usb gadgets as well.

As the world becomes more and more engulfed in its technology and gadgetry, there is always a need for alternative battery and energy sources. The Continuance concept is perfect for those of us who require USB charging for our products as well as the classic AA or AAA batteries for other tools and devices. Killing two stones with one battery!

Samsung Challenges Intel For Chip Leadership

It appears as if the chip industry had a much better 2010 than 2009, as the global semiconductor business is estimated to have gained about $70 billion in sales last year.

 Gartner reports that global chip sales surged to $299.4 billion.

"The industrywide upturn was due to the combination of pent-up demand that had built in the wake of the worldwide economic recession, and rebuilding of semiconductor inventories that were significantly depleted during the recession and early recovery," said Peter Middleton, principal analyst at Gartner.

Asus: Yes, We're Planning an Oak Trail Tablet

After all this talk of the Tegra 2-powered Transformer, Asus is also working on an Intel-based tablet.

In the height of the netbook craze, it seemed Nvidia’s Tegra chipset couldn’t catch a break. Compared to the ubiquitous Atom processor, Tegra was in only a small percentage of devices. Fast forward a year or so and things have changed completely. We saw numerous Tegra 2 devices at CES, tablets and smartphones alike, and it seems there’s a new one launched every week.

Bill Gates Didn't Understand Gmail

What do you have in your email that's not email?

Google's Gmail is one of the very best in free webmail services. Originally thought to be an Fool's Day joke when it was announced on April 1, 2004 with its 1 GB of free storage (massive for email at the time), Gmail today has grown its storage quota for its free accounts to nearly 8 GB.