From DailyTech: Thing's aren't holly jolly at Yahoo headquarters and some employees are about to get a Christmas surprise they don’t want. It's no secret that Yahoo has been struggling with profits and key worker defections, and today reports are coming in that Yahoo plans to...

From DailyTech: Microsoft always has a big showing CES in Las Vegas each year – this year, the big focus from Microsoft will undoubtedly be Windows Phone 7 along with the first scheduled major update for the smartphone OS. Another of the big pushes that is expected from Microsoft is...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to sell its Blu-ray 3D equipment, such as TV-sets, glasses and players, Panasonic has acquired exclusive rights to sell Avatar movie on Blu-ray 3D (BD 3D) format till February, 2012. As a result, only customers of Panasonic will be able to watch the movie in...

From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has added yet another production facility into its expansion plans. The fab will cost around enormous $10 billion and will almost double capacities the company will have when it initiates construction in 2014.

TSMC is...

From PC World: Dell has agreed to buy virtualized storage vendor Compellent Technologies in an all-cash deal worth US$27.75 per share, a little more than the $27.50 per share price tag it was discussing with the company last week, but still lower than the stock's Monday-morning...

From PC World: E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords -- including on other sites, if they use the same...

From CNET News.com: Though general consumers have had access to 3.5-inch desktop hard drives with up to 3TB of storage or portable external hard drives with 1.5TB, business users have had to live with hard drives with much less space.

That changed today, as Seagate announced its...

From CNET News.com: Nearly two years after Google announced its Latitude for tracking friends' locations, the service is available as an application for iOS.

Google had promised the Latitude app would arrive on iPhones "very soon" when the service debuted in February 2009. But Apple...

From X-bit Labs: Systems powered by AMD’s code-named Ontario and Zacate accelerated processing units (APUs) will cost starting from $349. The world’s second largest supplier of microprocessors for personal computers hopes to revolutionize the markets of low-cost netbooks and...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. placed high hopes onto its code-named Moorestown (Atom Z600-series) system-on-chip (SoC) and expressed hopes that the first smartphones based on it would be released already in 2010. But at the recent Barclays Capital Technology Conference 2010 the head...