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AMD has lived up to their word and are releasing their 780G chipsets H1 2008. They announced availability at the CeBIT 2008 event in Hanover, Germany. Manufacturers out of the gate include ASUS (M3A78), Gigabyte (GA-MA78GM), and ECS (A780GM), ranging from $70-100USD.

Utilizing HyperTransport 3.0 (15 GB/s @1.8GHz / 20GB/s @2.6GHz), the 780G calls for DDR2 1066 and has four banks directly connected to the AM2+/AM2 socket. Specifications leaked last year (image) called for DDR3 in a 240-pin 128-bit interface, but memory pricing and AM2 compatibility encouraged the use of DDR2. The AMD 780G chipset is also directly connected to the socket and has a dual 16x link for input/output.

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Microsoft Corp. gave early testers their first glimpse of its next-generation Web browser Wednesday, and said Internet Explorer 8 will adhere to the same standards as competitors’ programs.Microsoft’s browsers, including the current Internet Explorer 7, gained notoriety among Web developers for handling Web page code differently than Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox, Apple Inc.’s Safari, the now-defunct Netscape Navigator and others.

For the most part, major non-Microsoft browsers and outside developers who built Web pages worked with agreed-upon technical standards, while Microsoft was accused of adding proprietary code to those standards. The result: Web pages that looked good in Internet Explorer but broke on other browsers, or vice versa.

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Speakers for your MP3 player are never going to be both portable and able to pump out great sound.

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Microsoft Corp asked software developers to “bet on us” as it began making test versions available of Internet Explorer 8, an upgraded version of the main software used to browse the Web.At Microsoft’s MIX08 conference on Wednesday, the company’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, said the Web was at the center of everything Microsoft was doing as it seeks to expand beyond the desktop business it dominates.

“I know today that you have many amazing technology choices available to you, but I’d like you to bet on us,” Ozzie told an audience of Web developers.

Microsoft has been pushing for a “software plus services” strategy that uses the Internet to augment traditional software that runs on a computer’s hard drive.

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During the Web’s heyday, a profitable Internet company nearing $100 million in annual sales while luring a million new customers a month would have found itself on the IPO fast track. But that’s hardly the case for LinkedIn, a professional networking site that has cleared those hurdles and then some.

Instead, LinkedIn is hewing closely to the Web economy’s new motto on initial public offerings: Easy does it. Founded in 2003, LinkedIn may not sell shares until some time next year. Likewise, social networking site Facebook, worth $15 billion on paper, may not go public until 2010, a company board member says. People close to Facebook previously suggested an IPO could come as soon as 2009.

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