From X-bit Labs: Skype, a leading voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) company, on Monday announced that it had named Tony Bates, senior vice president of Cisco, as chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.

Mr. Bates has over 20 years of leadership experience in...

From X-bit Labs: HP, the world's largest maker of personal computers, has quietly started to sell systems featuring microprocessors based on code-named Zosma design from Advanced Micro Devices. The chips are the first quad-core processors that feature TurboCore technology from AMD...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft will launch its latest mobile phone operating system, Windows Phone 7, in New York on Oct. 11, according to a posting on its website.

The event invitation says the operating system will be unveiled next Monday at 3pm in the New York City Microsoft...

From PC World: Toshiba is readying two 3D televisions that can produce images with the illusion of depth but don't require the user to wear glasses, it said Monday. It will launch the televisions in Japan in December. By dispensing with glasses, the TVs answer a key complaint of...

From CNET News.com: Netbooks don't change very much in terms of specs, at least compared to other laptops, but there has been one new wrinkle as of late: dual-core Atom CPUs.

Acer's 10.1-inch Acer Aspire AOD255 Netbook includes a new dual-core Atom N550 CPU for $350, along with 1GB...

From CNET News.com: This may well be the largest consumer telecommunications refund in history. Verizon Wireless said Sunday it will pay up to $90 million in refunds to some 15 million subscribers who were charged for data usage or Internet access, though they weren't on data usage...

From DailyTech: The army of Android-powered smartphones continues to grow, and the latest addition is coming from the folks at T-Mobile. The new T-Mobile myTouch uses Google's Android 2.2 operating system.

When it comes to hardware specs, the myTouch is pretty comparable to other...

From DailyTech: It's understandable that margins are often slim on certain items in the retail business, and companies look to offer additional services to help bolster the bottom line. However, Best Buy seems to take things to the extreme at times.

Best Buy's Geek Squad division...

From X-bit Labs: ARM, the company behind the absolute majority of mobile phones, will enable multi-threading capability on its chips. This will boost performance of it microprocessors and will boost ARM architecture in general.

"The company is looking to include multithreading...

From X-bit Labs: Graphics processors have been seriously undervalued by general consumers, which catalyzed Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corp. to create processors with built-in graphics engines. But add-on graphics cards will continue to exist, says Jon Peddie, the principal of...