From Tom's Hardware: The Web is buzzing about Microsoft's new mobile OS, Windows Phone 7. With a sexy and sleek UI, it seems Microsoft has finally gotten it right and is now able to compete with the bigger players like Apple and Google (Android). However, design aside, it would seem...

From PC World: The latest version of OpenOffice fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker.

OpenOffice.org has issued version 3.2, which adds a lengthy list of new features and improves the suite's overall performance while...

From DailyTech: The LiMo Foundation has added Adobe as its latest global partner, with Adobe applauding the group's open standards that will allow Adobe to "further its goals of open standards" in 2010.

"There has been a step change for Linux in mobile," said Morgan Gillis, head of...

From CNET News.com: Google has made a $2 million donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used Wikipedia reference site.

Jimmy Wales, a member of the board who helped create Wikipedia, announced the donation in a tweet on Tuesday. He said a formal...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. plans to update its family of desktop central processing units next quarter. The update will further strengthen already strong lineup from the company and in case of performance-mainstream range will be the final update this year. Going forward the...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has announced that it had entered a memorandum of understanding under which its Canadian subsidiary would be awarded by a five-year grant of $52.8 million to fund research and development activities in the development of the code-named Fusion...

From InfoWorld: A "small percentage" of MacBook owners whose hard drives fail will be eligible for a free replacement under a warranty extension announced by Apple this week.

The laptops in questions are both black and white MacBooks models bought between May 2006 and December 2007...

From PC World: Symantec Wednesday will ship a new version of its Norton 360 security and online storage/backup product and announced that free applications for mobile devices are on the way.

An Android smartphone app for Norton 360 is in beta now, and similar applications for the...

From CNET News.com: In a multiyear distribution agreement sure to spark controversy among users of Redbox Automated Retail machines, the video rental kiosk operator has agreed to refrain from renting newly released Warner Bros. DVDs for a period of 28 days.

The deal is similar to...

From CNET News.com: In a move to marry its old-school Office product with the newer trends of the Net, Microsoft issued beta software Wednesday that brings social-network information into Outlook.

The product, called Outlook Social Connector, has been available in the Office 2010...