From CNET News.com: Are Microsoft and Google hoping to get into Twitter's treasure trove of real-time information? Yes, says Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, citing sources who indicate that the two companies are separately in talks with Twitter about data licensing deals.

This would...

From DailyTech: Dell is the second largest computer maker on the planet and is always looking for new avenues to maximize revenue and gain new marketshare. The company has reportedly been working on smartphones for a long time in preparation to enter into the market. The Dell...

From DailyTech: Microsoft and much of the technology world is preparing for the October 22 launch of Windows 7. The operating system is perhaps the most important that Microsoft has ever offered with it replacing Vista, one of the most maligned OS'.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer...

From DailyTech: AT&T is a source of angst and ire for many users who are on its network. As the exclusive iPhone provider in the U.S., the company has a group of the most prolific mobile media consumers on a network that has been synonymous with bandwidth problems, dropped calls...

From CNET News.com: Dell is closing its desktop PC manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The cost-cutting move will ax 905 jobs, with 600 workers set to be laid off in November and the rest in January, Dell said Wednesday.

"This is a difficult decision, especially for our...

From CNET News.com: Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than prior versions of Windows, one software company says that, in many cases, the new operating system can take longer to get started than Windows Vista.

Iolo Technlogies, which sells PC...

From CNET News.com: Ray Ozzie is getting more social.

No, the infrequent blogger and Microsoft's chief software architect has not decided to Twitter his every move. Rather, Ozzie has set up a new social computing lab at Microsoft, to be headed by Microsoft Research veteran Lili...

From Tom's Hardware: Yesterday when Adobe announced its Flash Player 10.1 that'll be coming down the pipe, Nvidia was among the first to chime in saying that its GPUs will be able to accelerate Flash video with GeForce and Ion.

AMD's informed us that it plans to support Adobe Flash...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital on Tuesday said that its new My Book Elite and My Book Studio external hard disk drives (HDDs) will feature E-Ink screen in order to use their labeling as well as provide additional information to end-users. Usage of additional screen on an external...

From InfoWorld: While Flash Player got most of the attention at Adobe Systems' developer conference this week, the company also announced an update to Adobe AIR, a runtime environment that allows Flash programs to run offline on the desktop.

The first version of AIR (Adobe...