From DailyTech: Today NVIDIA officially launched the GTX 580, the first card in its Geforce 500 Series. Like AMD's Radeon 6000 series, the Geforce 500 series isn't a major architecture design and is still produced on the same 40 nm process by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...

From DailyTech: Sometimes computer makers launch new notebooks with a huge amount of media attention and fanfare – we're looking at you, Apple. Other times, manufacturers quietly add the new notebooks to their website and offer scant details or reasoning on why the new device came to...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices will update its lineup of business-class central processing units next year with its high-performance chips based on Bulldozer micro-architecture. Available a little later than code-named Zambezi desktop chips, the B-series processors will...

From X-bit Labs: Marvell, a leading developer of various chips based on ARM architecture, on Monday unveiled its new system-on-chip (SoC) product – called Armada XP (extreme performance) – that features four ARM cores and is aimed at “enterprise-class cloud computing applications”...

From InfoWorld: Oracle is moving forward with plans to merge its two Java virtual machines (JVMs) and to provide a single microkernel for its open source GlassFish and commercial WebLogic application servers.

These efforts are descended from the company's acquisitions of BEA Systems...

From PC World: Evernote, the application that allows users to capture almost any digital information and access it from any of their devices, will launch a new version of its app for Android phones on Monday.

The software will be available from 9am Eastern Time and marks a major...

From CNET News.com: Opera Software, the scrappy Norwegian browser maker, today faces arguably the biggest competitive threats of its 15-year history.

The first challenges are on personal computers. Right after Google's Chrome burst onto the scene two years ago, Opera slipped from...

From CNET News.com: Little has been known about stealth start-up RockMelt except that it's a browser, specifically (and yet ambiguously) a "Facebook browser," and it's backed by browser godfather Marc Andreessen. Well, now RockMelt has crept out of the woodwork into a limited beta...

From DailyTech: After months of speculation, a name change, a publicity stunt burying the iPhone and Blackberry, and an uncharacteristic press event held last month (followed by an unprecedented ad campaign that's been running since then), the cat is finally out of the bag today --...

From DailyTech: It appears that Apple's brand new MacBook Air isn't going to be the only notebook on the market to have access to Toshiba's new small form factor SSDs. Toshiba announced today that it will be making its Blade X-gale SSDs available to its other customers.

The...