Firefox OS Devices Coming To Sprint

From PC World: Firefox maker Mozilla announced Monday that Sprint, along with six other carriers worldwide, will be among the first mobile operators to support Mozilla's HTML5-based mobile OS.

Previously called the Open Web Devices platform (OWD), the mobile platform is now called...

Adobe: Web standards match 80 percent of Flash features

From CNET News.com: Adobe Systems, retooling as fast as it can for a future of Web publishing and Web apps, sees the technology as mostly caught up to the Flash technology that Adobe previously preferred.

"I think it's close to 80 percent," Arno Gourdol, Adobe's senior director of...

Google: We drove $80 billion of US economic activity last year

From CNET News.com: Google is driving serious economic activity in the U.S., according to the company.

The search giant today unveiled its 2011 Economic Impact report, and said that its search and advertising tools, including AdWords and AdSense, drove $80 billion in economic...

Sony Acquires Cloud Gaming Company Gaikai

From X-bit Labs: Sony Computer Entertainment has purchased cloud gaming company Gaikai for about $380 million.

The latest acquisition is meant to build on Sony's gaming platforms, but it is currently unclear how the company will use Gaikai's technology. Some potential applications...

Nokia: We Have a Contingency Plan if Windows Phone Fails

From X-bit Labs: After the announcement of 10,000 global job cuts sent shares of Finnish phonemaker Nokia Oyj.'s (HEX:NOK1V) stock into a deeper tailspin, the executive ranks were rustled and a new chairman -- Risto Siilasmaa -- was installed.

Speaking with YLE.fi, a Finnish news...

G.Skill Ares F3-1866C10D-16GAB 2x8GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

Can you possibly have too much RAM? Back in the days, plugging in an extra set of memory into your computer is a simple upgrade that will bring you a big boost in performance. Nowadays, unless you are using very specialized applications (Hello, my proud fellow engineers), 8GB is usually than enough for majority of the users out there. Of course, I don't know what holds for the future, but for people like yours truly who classifies...

Rumor: Microsoft Office 2013 Beta Next Week

From DailyTech: A Dutch website called bouweenpc.nl claims to have sources reporting that Microsoft has completed the first public beta of Office 2013 and it will be released sometime next week. Microsoft has already showed a live public demo of the Windows RT version of Office 2013...

Apple to Update iTunes with iCloud Integration, Music Sharing

From DailyTech: Apple is planning to give its iTunes media player program a makeover later this year, which is to include new ways of sharing music and further iCloud integration.

ITunes has been Apple's media player since January 2001. It is used for playing, downloading and...

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