From X-bit Labs: PCI-SIG, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express industry-standard input/output (I/O) technology, on Thursday announced the availability of the PCIe 3.0 specification to its members. The PCI Express 3.0 will increase bandwidth and feature-set...

From X-bit Labs: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has quietly started to sell its first internal 3TB hard disk drives (HDDs). The new Deskstar 5K3000 and Deskstar 7K3000 products feature five platters and only work on newer computers, thus, they are unlikely to become very popular...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft on Wednesday patched an enterprise security tool that had blocked some copies of Chrome from updating.

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) "may have potential issues with the update functionality" of Google's Chrome and Adobe's Reader and...

From PC World: A task force led by the GSM Association will take a look at how SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards embedded in non-phone devices can be remotely programmed and activated, in an effort to expand the use of mobile broadband , the organization said on Thursday.

The...

From CNET News.com: If you've ever been frustrated using a voice activated customer agent or have scratched your head while reading an unintelligible voice-to-text message, AT&T says help is on the way.

The company, which has invested more than one million research hours over the...

From CNET News.com: There was an uneasiness in the air this week at the stately Palace Hotel during the eighth annual Web 2.0 Summit, the sort of vibe that you couldn't see in the glossy program or in the lineup of events that included talks by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google...

From DailyTech: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's comment that Windows 8 was his company's most risky endeavor sparked much curiosity. Little is currently known about the upcoming operating system. So why is Windows 8 such a high risk proposition for Microsoft?

The answer to that may...

From DailyTech: Yesterday, LG announced that worldwide sales of its Android-based Optimus One line of smartphones have surpassed 1 million units within 40 days of its launch.

The device, available in the U.S. as the Optimus S on Sprint and the Optimus T on T-Mobile, runs Android 2.2...

From X-bit Labs: Even though an analyst back in October said that it would make sense to split up Microsoft Corp. into several companies targeting different markets to "unlock the hidden value", the world's largest software developer does not have such plans.

"I obviously don't...

From X-bit Labs: Every new generation of central processing units (CPUs) brings improved performance as well as enhanced set of features. Some generations bring breakthrough changes to computing and some just pass some incremental benefits. According to Intel Corp.'s chief executive...