From X-bit Labs: Epic Games, a leading developer of graphics engines and popular Unreal-series video games, this week said that it had joined Khronos Group, an industry group that develops open standards for graphics. Although Epic has supported DirectX for about a decade now, it has...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft asked an appeals court for a rehearing in the patent case that requires the software giant to pay $290 million in damages and prevents it from selling the current version of Word starting on Monday.

The suit charged Microsoft with using a patent owned by...

From PC World: Microsoft will patch Word on the Mac to comply with a federal court's ruling requiring it to remove custom XML technology from its popular word processing software, the company confirmed last week.

On Saturday, Microsoft issued an update for Word 2003 for Windows to...

From CNET News.com: Google's forthcoming Nexus One smartphone is composed of components worth about $175, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli.

The new phone, which Google unveiled Tuesday, offers an inside designed by Google and an outside designed by HTC. The primary...

From CNET News.com: Mozilla has released its first release candidate, RC1, for Firefox 3.6.

The new version includes Personas, which lets people customize the browser's appearance; blocks third-party software from encroaching on its file system turf to increase stability; and...

From DailyTech: The USB 2.0 interface has been a limiting factor for external hard drives even as they were developed. The obsolete interface can only transfer data at 480Mbps (60MB/s), but due to protocol overhead and other problems most users will find their data transfers capped...

From DailyTech: One of the most important technologies at CES this year has turned out to be 3D-ready TVs and the corresponding 3D programming from major satellite providers. Another of the technologies that has been huge at the show has been portable TVs.

Mobile TV has been around...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Thursday demonstrated its new technology called 3D Vision Surround, which enables stereoscopic 3D picture on three monitors. The technology will be supported by the next-generation GeForce graphics cards based on code-named GF100 chip (NV60, GT300...

From InfoWorld: Intel on Thursday showed the first smartphone based on its upcoming Moorestown platform for mobile devices.

The GW990 smartphone will be made by LG Electronics and ship during the second half of the year, said Intel CEO Paul Otellini during a keynote speech at the...

From PC World: It's official. Intel CEO Paul Otellini launched a volley of 32-nanometer cannonballs at AMD today with the official release of the company's latest dual- and quad-core Clarkdale (desktop) and dual-core Arrandale (laptop) CPUs.

The launch--spanning 27 different chips...