From CNET News.com: Spam now accounts for close to 90 percent of all e-mail worldwide due to a surge in February, according to Symantec.

Two botnets named Grum and Rustock helped push spam levels up 5.5 percent in February over the prior month, according to the security firm's...

From DailyTech: Today marks the official unveiling of a couple important new platforms in the technology world. The platforms come from rivals AMD and NVIDIA. AMD has made official its new AMD 890GX chipset that is aimed at digital entertainment fans and NVIDIA has pulled the wraps...

From DailyTech: One trend we mentioned in our coverage of Windows Mobile 7 was how its look was rather unusual in that it didn't imitate the chiclet icon-on-a-grid look that was first introduced by Apple's iPhone and since embraced by scores of different phones, including many...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.’s forthcoming six-core chip for desktops is now available for pre-order in at least one online store in Europe. The listing may point to availability of the Intel Core i7-980X chip code-named Gulftown in the short-term future.

At present Germany-based...

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched its first mainstream business laptop with a touchscreen, but said it would be cautious in bringing touch technology to its existing business laptop lines.

The EliteBook 2740p is a convertible tablet PC with a 12.1-inch touchscreen...

From PC World: Sony's PlayStation Network has been hit by a glitch that has left users on all continents unable to connect to the online service, the company said Monday.

The PlayStation Network is an Internet-based service that connects PlayStation 3 consoles to online stores...

From CNET News.com: Google has launched a tool to help people locate friends and loved ones who might have been affected by Saturday's 8.8.-magnitude earthquake in Chile.

Google Person Finder allows users to search for information about people by name or leave information about...

From CNET News.com: Hewlett-Packard is refreshing its business ultraportable laptop and hybrid laptop-tablet with Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, becoming one of the first major PC makers to squeeze these powerful processors into a small, lightweight design.

Intel announced the...

From DailyTech: Palm was on a sharp slide over the last couple years, thanks in part to the rising success of Research In Motion's Blackberry smartphones and the Apple iPhone. That's a foreign position for the company, as it was on the forefront of the smartphone revolution...

From DailyTech: "The ultimate all-in-one. Now with the ultimate display...Faster processors...Faster Graphics..." Apple's description of its new iMac, first released in October make it sound like every computer user's dream machine.

Unfortunately, that dream fast became a nightmare...