From InfoWorld: Motorola Mobility said Thursday that its shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed acquisition of the company by Google.

About 99 percent of the shares voting at a special meeting on Thursday voted in favor, which represented about 74 percent of...

From PC World: Google has released an update for Chrome 15 which addresses a high-risk vulnerability. The security issue is the result of an out-of-bounds memory write in the browser's JavaScript engine.

Under normal circumstances such a vulnerability would allow remote code...

From CNET News.com: Here's one strictly for the rumor hopper: Apple was on the verge of coming out with a MacBook Air packing a processor from Advanced Micro Devices.

The reasoning put forward by chip-centric Web site Semiaccurate is that AMD offered better graphics horsepower...

From X-bit Labs: At the Intel Capital global summit, Intel's chief executive officer Paul Otellini said that starting next year ultra-thin laptops, which Intel calls "ultrabooks", will have touch-screens and will thus be able to act like tablets. But before such products emerge...

From X-bit Labs: Chief executive officer of Seagate Technology, the No. 2 maker of hard disk drives (HDDs) in the world, gave a dramatically negative prediction for the HDD industry. The recovery of the industry after tragic flooding in Thailand will take a year and limited supplies...

From PC World: At a time when Android phone sales have nearly tripled from a year ago, iPhone sales continue to climb, and overall smartphone sales jumped 42 percent, the Windows Phone platform (formerly Windows Mobile) has done the seemingly impossible -- sold fewer phones in this...

From CNET News.com: In its first five days of availability, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 generated $775 million in worldwide sales, helping the game set a new revenue record over that period, Activision announced today. The previous record-holder, Call of Duty: Black Ops, generated...

From DailyTech: It's been two months since Germany dropped the ban hammer on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. A Germany court ruled that the tablet, manufactured by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. was too similar to the Apple, Inc.'s iPad in its minimalist design. The judge found...

From DailyTech: Back in May, Google announced its music service and launched Music beta at its I/O Conference for developers. Now, Google Music is finally here and ready to challenge the likes of Amazon's Cloud Drive and maybe even Apple's iTunes.

Music beta allowed users to upload...

From X-bit Labs: This week, forty years ago, Intel Corp. introduced the world’s first commercially available microprocessor – the Intel 4004 – triggering the start of the digital revolution. Nowadays, the absolute majority of consumer, enterprise, professional and other electronics...