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AMD and Intel patch things up, HP buys 3Com

13.11.2009
We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute. By midnight tonight, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are supposed to file a revised book-search settlement proposal, which could add to our top stories list for the week. For now, though, what follows are our top IT headlines of the moment.

1. and : AMD and Intel surprised us with word that they have settled an ongoing antitrust and intellectual-property legal spat. The settlement could have far-reaching effects, even to the point of leading the two rivals to cooperate with one another.

2. and : HP is buying 3Com for US$3.7 billion, which financial analysts said will pose a threat to Cisco.

3. : A Flash flaw of "huge" magnitude is "frighteningly bad," with the potential for any site to be compromised that allows users to upload content. Yikes!

4. and : Google is releasing to open source an experimental programming language called Go, which is said to show a lot of promise but could take years to really take hold.

5. : There's nothing quite like a deathmatch, with photos, to amp up the headlines, especially when the matchup is Motorola Droid versus the iPhone.