From X-bit Labs: Even though non-traditional suppliers of storage devices find that the market of solid-state drives (SSDs) is expanding, Western Digital, currently the world's largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), finds its SSD business struggling. Nonetheless, the company plans...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group has announced the opening of a new solid-state drive (SSD) manufacturing plant in Taipei, Taiwan slated to begin operation on Monday, October 25. The new manufacturing facility will enable the well-known supplier of SSDs and memory modules to...

From InfoWorld: IBM has developed a new rootkit-detection system designed to make it easier to detect malicious attacks on virtualized data centers.

Called the IBM Virtual Protection System, the software operates outside of the virtual machine and can identify malicious software...

From PC World: Sprint Nextel Tuesday unveiled dual-mode 3G/4G-embedded netbook and notebook computers, both made by Dell, at the 4G World conference here.

The devices are considered the first such dual mode devices to be announced by a national wireless carrier.

The new offerings...

From CNET News.com: Google has no plans to resume using its Street View cars to collect information about the location of Wi-Fi networks, a practice that led to a flurry of privacy probes after the company said it unintentionally captured fragments of unencrypted data.

The...

From DailyTech: Steve Jobs is known for making his over the top comments and calling out the competition whenever he gets the chance. Yesterday, Jobs took direct aim at not only Google's Android OS (which is now shaping up to be a worthy competitor for of the iPhone in the U.S...

From DailyTech: Today Palm ended weeks of speculation unveiling the Palm Pre 2 (previously code-named Mansion) and its new webOS 2.0. HP has shown its hand and it appears as underwhelming at best.

On the surface the device itself seems reasonably well-equipped, containing the kind...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. announced tuesday that the company will invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on future generations of manufacturing technology in its American facilities. The action will fund deployment of Intel’s next-generation 22nm manufacturing process across...

From X-bit Labs: Globalfoundries, a contract maker of semiconductors controlled by Advanced Technology Investment Company and Advanced Micro Devices, said that it would receive $3.5 billion in revenues in 2010. Such level of earnings will make Globalfoundries nearly as big as United...

From CNET News.com: For those of you who like to keep track of release dates, the Barnes & Noble Nook was announced on October 20, 2009. Almost to the day, Barnes & Noble has sent out an invite to members of the media, requesting their appearance at an event next Tuesday, October...