iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news. It’s published every weekday at 8.00am EST. For Jan 19th, here are the highlights:

• an IP firm from Texas is seeking to stop six companies, including RIM (blackberry), Nokia and Palm to import handheld devices in the U.S., for allegedly violating its patents.
• Intel cuts prices on some chips, up to 48%. Included product lines in the price reductions are the Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium dual-core, Celeron, and Xeons.
• TechCrunch has a guide for Barack Obama’s Inauguration, with a list of websites, chats, mobile applications, real-time video streams, etc, for those who will be attending the event, and also for those who won’t be in Washington D.C.
• The Internet shrinks, Web loses 1.2M sites, the largest monthly loss since the dot-com bubble era
• A dashboard for web designers and web integrators, with download links, code and websites.