From CNET News.com: Continuing its effort to expand the e-book business beyond its own hardware, Amazon.com on Thursday released a Kindle application for BlackBerry phones.

Amazon got its start as an online book seller, expanded to electronics and other retail categories, then...

From DailyTech: Windows Phone 7 Series hopes to continue Microsoft's recent success that began with Windows 7 for PCs. The new mobile OS, set to air this holiday season, scraps past efforts entirely. In its place is a colorful operating system quite unlike anything else on the...

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, on Wednesday said that in March it would provide a number of important software updates that will improve functionality of its graphics cards, including the latest ATI Radeon HD 5000-series, just in time when its...

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...