From X-bit Labs: Mainboard manufacturer Gigabyte Technology has reveled clock-speeds of Advanced Micro Devices’ forthcoming Phenom II X6 “Thuban” central processing units (CPUs). As expected, AMD’s six-core chips will feature substantially lower clock-speeds than their quad-core...

From InfoWorld: Google has released version 4.1 of Google Maps for Android, adding a constantly updated map wallpaper, tweaking the way search results are displayed and adding a new Latitude widget for tracking your friends.

The search result changes, announced in a blog post on...

From PC World: Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.

Over the last two days, millions of messages have been...

From CNET News.com: First came the Kindle electronic book reader device itself. Then the applications for the iPhone, BlackBerry, and for Windows. Now Amazon has brought the e-reader software to Mac OS X.

The Kindle for Mac beta version, as with the other apps and devices, lets...

From CNET News.com: Although Windows 7's "XP Mode" has been a welcome feature of the new operating system, there's been a fair bit of confusion brought on by the virtualization layer's hardware requirements.

To work, XP Mode has required a PC processor that supports hardware...

From DailyTech: Advertisers started with traditional media like newspapers, TV, and magazines. As the internet became a more important piece of the daily lives of consumers, advertiser started flocking to online advertisements.

Today online advertising is a massive moneymaker with...

From DailyTech: HTC says in a press release that it is prepared to fight back against Apple's patent litigation in court. It has not yet filed an official response or countersued, but that should follow within a few weeks.

Apple is currently suing HTC to block the import of Android...

From Tom's Hardware: It's no secret that making Fermi has been a harder-than-expected task for Nvidia, but the company will officially unveil its finalized product in the GeForce GTX 480 at the end of next week on March 26.

While you can expect to see an announcement at an event at...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. this week formally announced availability of six-core microprocessors for desktops as well as servers and/or workstations. The company reportedly indicated that it had shipped more than one hundred thousand of Intel Xeon 5600-series chips with six cores...

From InfoWorld: Phone maker HTC and wireless carrier T-Mobile announced the highly anticipated HD2 smartphone in the U.S. on Tuesday, but also said that no plans were in place to put Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS on the device yet.

The smartphone includes a large 4.3-inch...