From PC World: Good news, Angry Birds fans: Rovio's addictive time-wasting exercise in pork pummeling is now available in the Chrome Web Store. Users of Google's Chrome browser can download a prerelease version of Angry Birds, according to the developer's blog.

"This is only a beta...

From DailyTech: Cisco is historically one of the strongest and more profitable technology firms. Its performance over the last several months has declined significantly in the face of increasing competition and the admitted fact that Cisco was trying to compete in too many markets at...

From CNET News.com: Sony Online Entertainment today offered more details on how it will compensate customers affected by the three-week-long outage of the PC and console gaming network, which Sony says should be online in "at least a few more days."

U.S. customers with an account...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group this week released two new families of solid-state drives with Serial ATA-600 interface and relatively low price. The new Agility 3 and Solid 3 drives feature SandForce SF-2200-series controller and provide maximum read speed of around 500MB/s...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it had started to produce multi-level cell (MLC) NAND Flash memory with toggle DDR 2.0 interface. The chip is designed to support the high-performance requirements of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and solid...

From InfoWorld: While Google currently does not see any conflict between its Android vision for tablets and smartphones and its Chrome OS cloud-based laptop vision, a company official acknowledged today that there is potential for such a conflict in the future.

Sundar Pichai, Google...

From PC World: Via Technologies announced a new quad-core x86 processor on Thursday, saying it is "the lowest power quad core processor on the market today."

The company's QuadCore processor, targeted at mainstream laptops and desktops, operates at 1.2GHz and draws around 27.5 watts...

From CNET News.com: Intel is working on a new Atom chip architecture that goes beyond the 3D transistors announced last week as the chip giant accelerates development of its most power-efficient chip design.

The new Atom-based "micro-architecture," codenamed "Silvermont," will ship...

From DailyTech: Google Inc. (GOOG) is looking to finally launch its first laptops running its new Chrome Operating System (Chrome OS) on June 15. Two models were announced on Google's Chrome OS homepage, coinciding with an unveil at Google's I/O Conference.

The first notebook (or...

From DailyTech: AT&T, Inc (T) hopes to soon complete an acquisition of Deutsche Telekom AG's (DTE) T-Mobile USA. But to get there, the companies have to navigate through a Congressional inquiry -- which occurs today -- regulatory hurdles set up by a number of government agencies...