From CNET News.com: Through its latest acquisition offer, Cisco Systems is hoping to grab a bigger slice of the growing video communications market.

Cisco announced Thursday that it will offer $3 billion in cash to acquire Tandberg, a global supplier of video communications...

From DailyTech: Products supporting 802.11 draft-n speeds have been on the market for a while now. Routers, PC cards, and USB adapters have been hitting the market that were based on the draft-n specification for well over a year.

The IEEE finally ratified the 802.11n specification...

From X-bit Labs: In spite of the fact that Nvidia Corp. once promised to enable processing of physics effects made using PhysX application programming interface (API) on any graphics processing units (GPUs), the company recently started to disable PhysX support on systems that use...

From InfoWorld: After comfortably residing for years in mobile devices like cell phones, chips based on the Arm design are finding their way into commercial laptops.

However, Arm processors could be relegated to co-processor status alongside Intel CPUs in commercial laptops unless...

From PC World: The Wi-Fi Alliance is launching a certification program based on the completed IEEE 802.11n standard on Wednesday and looking toward a future peer-to-peer specification it is developing on its own.

Testing has now begun in the "Certified n" program, which succeeds the...

From CNET News.com: A federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388 million verdict in the case.

In a ruling on Tuesday, the court vacated the earlier decision and decided...

From CNET News.com: Hewlett-Packard is considering a reorganization that would see the company's printer unit combined with its personal computer business, according to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday.

The plans, which are contingent on CEO Mark Hurd's final approval, would put...

From DailyTech: Things were looking good when Microsoft announced its default Windows 7 pricing, which was lower than the prices of the previous Windows edition, Vista. With that announcement came news of a pre-order program which sold Home Premium upgrade licenses for only $49.99...

From DailyTech: Online retailer Newegg today announced plans to go public, filing for a $175 million IPO, according to an SEC filing.

Newegg is best known as a technology e-tailer, but has expanded of late to include other consumer electronics. Since launching in 2001, the company...

From Tom's Hardware: As we reported earlier today, Microsoft today released its final version of anti-malware software Security Essentials. It's free for Windows users and it'll take care of most of your viruses and spyware headaches.

At the price of nothing, it's an offer that’s...