From DailyTech: Micro-Star International (MSI) is known among enthusiasts for its graphics card designs and motherboards. However, the Taiwan-based OEM makes a variety of other products including servers and barebones PCs. Among its most successful entries outside the component...

From CNET News.com: Tapping into a new revenue source, Ubuntu Linux's corporate backer Canonical has signed a partnership to use Yahoo's search results by default in the version of Firefox it ships.

The move takes a page from the Mozilla playbook. Firefox is set up by default to...

From CNET News.com: Google's Social Search product is ready for wider testing.

First announced back at the Web 2.0 conference, Social Search allows Google searchers to link their Google Profile with the various profiles they have on social-networking sites such as Facebook and...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technologies and LSI Corp. on Tuesday announced collaboration to deliver PCI Express-based solid-state drives (SSDs) for data center and cloud computing environments. The companies did not say when actual solutions are projected to hit the market.

LSI and...

From InfoWorld: China on Wednesday said Google's Android operating system will not be blocked if it follows local regulations, after speculation that Google's threat to leave China could hurt the adoption of Android there.

Google last week said it had postponed the launch in China...

From PC World: Just hours before Apple's expected announcement, the chief executive of a major U.S. book publisher confirmed that the company will unveil a tablet tomorrow and that the device will run a version of the iPhone OS.

But after top McGraw-Hill exec Terry McGraw spilled...

From CNET News.com: Yahoo continued to ease its way back to financial respectability in its fourth quarter, beating estimates from both itself and Wall Street despite a decline in revenue.

In a press release Tuesday, Yahoo said it took in $1.73 billion in revenue during its fourth...

From CNET News.com: The Federal Communications Commission is asking all four major U.S. cell phone operators and Google to explain their early termination fee policies and how they communicate these to customers.

FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Chief Joel Gurin and...

From DailyTech: Over the last few years, LED backlighting on TFT LCD screens has moved beyond tech that is found in a few high-end notebooks and other devices to being one of the more common technologies used in notebooks and netbooks at a variety of different price ranges. CCFL...

From DailyTech: Since Sony first showed it off during E3 2009, the PlayStation 3 motion controller has been spoken about and promoted without an official name from the company.

Sending the rumor mill into overdrive, Sony recently registered the playstationarc.com domain, which has...