From InfoWorld: Oracle on Tuesday is launching version 11g Release 2 of its database, about two years after the initial version hit the market.

The new release is the product of some 1,500 developers and 15 million hours of testing, according to Mark Townsend, vice president of...

From PC World: It's official: eBay has sold Skype to a group of private investors for $1.9 billion, the company announced on Tuesday. That consortium of private investors now owns 65 percent of the Internet-based calling business.

The news comes as no surprise. Late last week...

From CNET News.com: Google released an update for Chrome to fix compatibility problems with Snow Leopard on Monday, which along with other fixes shows the gradually maturing state of the Mac OS X version of the browser.

Chrome 4.0.203.4 for the Mac is only a couple notches up the...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft is hoping that a new crop of phones this fall will help the company in its quest to stay relevant in the cell phone market.

The software maker said on Tuesday that the first phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 will launch worldwide on October 6 and will...

From DailyTech: Nokia is one of the largest mobile phone providers in the world by marketshare with about 38% of the global market. The problem for Nokia is that in the U.S. its products aren't nearly as popular with a mere 7% of the U.S. market.

Earlier this year Nokia, launched...

From DailyTech: Just as attacks against Macs were beginning in earnest, and security software makers were ready to step into this new market and begin selling customers security suites, Apple dropped a bomb on the security software vendors -- OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" comes with built...

From X-bit Labs: Sales of discrete graphics cards for desktop personal computers grew slightly sequentially in the second quarter of 2009, a recent study from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has found. However, average selling prices (ASPs) dropped, as a consequence, market value declined...

From InfoWorld: Sharp Electronics this week introduced a netbook-like mobile device with a 5-inch touchscreen that is designed to run Internet-based applications.

The PC-Z1 device is as easy to handle as a mobile phone and provides performance similar to PCs, the company said in a...

From PC World: DRAM prices continued to rise in August, finally reaching profitable levels for most chip makers after they reached multiyear lows early this year.

Contract prices of 1Gb DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) chips rose 18.9 percent in August to US$1.58 per chip...

From CNET News.com: Google's Dan Clancy had patiently answered question after question regarding Google's' Book Search settlement with publishers and authors until late in the afternoon Friday, when he was finally left speechless.

Louis Trager, a reporter from Washington Internet...