From PC World: Lenovo will buy back the mobile phone unit that it spun off last year, reversing a move it originally made to focus on its core business in PCs, the company said late Friday.

The PC maker will buy Lenovo Mobile for around US$200 million in cash and stock to tap a...

From CNET News.com: Come early December, Oracle will meet with European Commission regulators to urge their approval of its merger with Sun Microsystems. "Two people with knowledge of the matter" tell Reuters that "Oracle has asked for a hearing which has been fixed for December 10."...

From DailyTech: Illegal file sharing is the big reason there is so much pressure on file sharing sites leading to legal battles and site closures. Across the globe anti-piracy groups like the MPAA, RIAA, and many more are fighting with all they have to close sites that allow users to...

From DailyTech: Love it or hate it, Apple produces the most popular MP3 players on the market (the ubiquitous iPod). And its laptops/desktops offer a nice set of hardware in a small package, albeit at a high price.

But for one day Apple's prices, typically somewhat high, are...

From Tom's Hardware: Are you running Windows 7
and are you a user of SD cards formatted using NTFS? Furthermore, do you use Advanced Direct Memory Access (ADMA) to transfer data between the SD card and your computer? You may find that when you transfer data from the computer to the...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices plans to describe some of the features of its next-generation mobile microprocessor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in early February, 2010. The company will not disclose all the details, which is logical...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft launched the beta of Office Home and Business 2010 over the weekend and is delivering the preview using its new "streaming" download technology.

The beta was the second that Microsoft made available to the general public, and followed the enterprise-grade...

From InfoWorld: Hackers working on the open-source Metasploit project have spiffed up a zero-day attack on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, making it more reliable -- and more likely to be used by criminals.

Security experts have been worried about the flaw since it was first...

From PC World: China's biggest online auction and retail Web site plans to stamp its brand on a new mobile phone, the first time it's name will be put on a device, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

Taobao.com plans this week to announce the phone, which will be...

From PC World: Will 2010 be the year of the e-reader? It sure looks that way. Amazon continues to improve its popular Kindle lineup, and Barnes & Noble claims it can't keep up with customer demand for its new Nook e-reader. Meanwhile, a host of competitors, including the Sony Reader...