From DailyTech: Google recently announced that it made an offer to buy travel search software firm ITA Software. ITA provides the airline flight information used by Google's search competitors. The deal is valued at $700 million making it less expensive than Google's purchase of...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices may suffer tight supply of its chipsets and graphics processors that are made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in the second half of the year since its arch-rival Nvidia Corp. has booked a substantial portion of TSMC’s capacity to...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. reportedly plans to build another manufacturing facility adjacent to the current Fab 18 in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat. The world’s largest maker of chips is currently negotiating with the Israeli government for incentives. The government is...

From InfoWorld: Apple has dropped the usual restocking fee for iPhone customers who want to return their smartphones, the company confirmed on Friday.

In a statement posted earlier today to its Web site that blamed reception problems on a flawed signal strength indicator, Apple said...

From PC World: Lenovo is "lucky" that Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't focused on the Chinese market, according to reported comments by Lenovo's chairman.

"We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn't care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the...

From CNET News.com: Blockbuster's stock will no longer be available on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) starting next week, the company announced in a statement Thursday.

The issue, according to Blockbuster, started in November, when the NYSE contacted the company and informed it...

From CNET News.com: Google has plugged the hole hackers used Sunday morning to festoon YouTube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-site redirects, according to a news outlet.

Hackers took advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability that enabled them to insert code onto the...

From DailyTech: With the wealth of browsers out there, it's hard to pick. There are, of course, five major competitors -- Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Apple's Safari. Some time ago we compared those browsers in a four part series [1]...

From DailyTech: According to a story which TheNextWeb broke over the holiday weekend, hundreds, if not thousands of iTunes accounts have been hacked over the holiday weekend, and a variety of methods used to ring up hundreds of dollars in fraudulent iTunes app store and music charges...

From Tom's Hardware: We all know about "Windows rot," where the operating system slowly degenerates to a slow, sluggish state after numerous installs, uninstalls, and other things that a system accumulates over time.

Those of us who perform good housekeeping practices on our...