From DailyTech: As U.S. officials announce a massive piracy crackdown initiative in the states, music industry leaders in the UK appear to be coming after Google. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a trade organization that represents music companies like EMI, Sony, Universal...

From DailyTech: The new edition of the popular online shooter, Counter Strike: Source, is back with major expansions. This updated version is a limited beta, now available for Steam on Mac, and it offers PC Vs. Mac cross-platform play.

According to the Steam website, "Source...

From CNET News.com: Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has acquired Melodeo, a Seattle-based start-up that specializes in music applications and services for mobile devices, the companies confirmed on Wednesday.

Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but an anonymous source told...

From CNET News.com: Oracle delivered a better-than-expected fourth quarter courtesy of strong hardware sales--notably an operating profit at Sun and strong sales of Exadata database machines.

The company reported earnings of $2.4 billion, or 46 cents a share, on revenue of $9.5...

From PC World: Google disclosed in a blog post on Thursday that it remotely removed two applications from Android phones that ran contrary to the terms of the Android Market.

A security researcher built and offered the free applications "for research purposes," wrote Rich Cannings...

From CNET News.com: Adobe will release updates for Reader and Acrobat on Tuesday that will fix critical security issues, including plugging a hole that could be used to take control of computers and which has been exploited in the wild, the company said on Thursday.

Adobe warned...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs), is unlikely to present a new graphics processing this year targeting this marker. Apparently, Nvidia only wants to present the forthcoming code-named GF100 graphics processor.

“Fermi GF100, a...

From X-bit Labs: Elpida Memory, a leading global supplier of advanced dynamic random access memory (DRAM), has announced that it had completed development of a high-density, high-speed, low-power consumption 50nm process 2Gb GDDR5.

Elpida’s new 2Gb GDDR5 chip can work at up to 7Ghz...

From InfoWorld: SanDisk on Wednesday announced a Secure Digital card that can store data for 100 years, but can be written on only once.

The WORM (write once, read many) card is "tamper proof" and data cannot be altered or deleted, SanDisk said in a statement. The card is designed...

From PC World: The iPhone 4 went on sale in Japan on Thursday morning, as Japanese customers who waited in long lines became among the first to purchase the latest smartphone from Apple.

Hundreds of people waited in lines outside a Tokyo store owned by operator Softbank Mobile and...