From InfoWorld: The Mozilla Foundation has issued the first release candidate of Firefox version 4.0, finishing a grueling and ambitious beta development cycle for the browser.

This release candidate represents what the development team feels is a finished browser, said Johnathan...

From PC World: A day before the iPad 2's launch, Apple has announced online order details for its latest tablet.

Customers who want to order the iPad 2 from Apple's website can do so starting at 1 a.m. Pacific (4 p.m. Eastern) on Friday, March 11.

The iPad 2 goes on sale in Apple...

From CNET News.com: Rovio, the company behind the Angry Birds phenomenon, is suddenly flush with cash.

The company announced today that it secured $42 million in a Series A round of funding led by venture-capital firms Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures. Accel Partners is best...

From CNET News.com: The AOL layoffs are finally here, and they are smaller than some had been expecting.

According to several people close to the situation, the New York-based Internet giant will lay off up to several hundred staffers starting Thursday in very targeted areas of the...

From DailyTech: The conception that Apple, Inc. computers running OS X are magically more secure than Windows computers was dealt another setback this week. Using a flaw in Apple's pre-installed first-party Safari browser, it took French security pro Chaouki Bekrar merely 5 seconds...

From DailyTech: Today, Sony Corporation announced a major executive-level reorganization "intended to facilitate the next phase of Sony's transformation into the world's leading provider of networked entertainment and solutions," the company said in a press release.

After the...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced another milestone in the commercial life of Kinect for X360 motion sensor. The device has been sold in ten million quantity, which is more than okay for a fairly closed Xbox 360 ecosystem.

"Following one of the biggest launches...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, Inca leading supplier of solid-state drives (SSDs), said this week that the demand towards SSD in 2010 increased by 380% from 2009. The firm plans to report approximately $190 million in review.

"We are pleased to have achieved record annual...

From InfoWorld: Apple rolled out new software updates Tuesday, though probably not the one some users were looking for. Instead of the iOS 4.3 update that some corners of the Internet insisted was in the works for Tuesday, the company released Java updates for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6...

From PC World: This November the Xbox 360 turns six, the PS3 and Wii turn five, and the PC, well, it's about as old as me (or slightly older than, depending). To hear EA tell it, the platform's still younger and sprier than its ephemeral competitors, and increasingly back in the...