Intel's next range of Atom chipsets seem to be ready to take Nvidia Ion head on. The new lineup will be smaller, faster, will reduce the average power consumption by as much as 20%, and are expected to be available as early as January of 2010. However the best feature of these chips is the integration of a GPU.The three new processors will all come at 1.66GHz and will come with an integrated Intel NM10 Express graphics chipset. With the integration of the CPU, GPU and memory controller on one chip, the come the reduction in size by 60% for a netbook footprint and up to 70% for a desktop.Of the three new processors, the N450, D410 and the D510, the N450 is intended for netbooks, while the D410 and D510 are intended for low end desktops, (nettops / HTPCs etc.). The N450 comes with a 512kb...

Moonlight, an open source implementation of Silverlight has finally seen the release of its second version. Moonlight 2 makes the runtime compatible with Silverlight 2, finally bringing support for Silverlight 2 content to Linux based OSs. While Silverlight has crossed version 3, and headed onto 4, Moonlight has just caught up with 2, and hopes to catch up to 3 by the third quarter of 2010.While Moonlight is fully compatible with Silverlight 2, it also brings with it some of the features from Silverlight 3 such as, Bitmap APIs, file dialogs, easing functions, pluggable media pipeline and custom Codecs.While until now it was only possible to safely get Moonlight from Novell without threat of litigation, Microsoft is now extending the offer to all 3rd parties which choose to host...

This year has been as bad for Twitter as it has been good. Filled with downtime, document leaks and now just a two weeks shy of a new year, it has been hacked again.Earlier this year Twitter's Google Apps accounts were hacked leaking company data about partnerships, future plans etc. -- an incident which was more embarrassing than it was damaging.This time, a group of Iranian hackers defaced the website by essentially redirecting Twitter to their own page. The attack was carried out by a group which calls itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" to reciprocate against the "interference" of Twitter during the election protests.Twitter.com during that time was displaying the following message:Iranian Cyber ArmyTHIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY...