From CNET News.com: Google has released the software development kit for Android 2.1, the version of its mobile operating system that powers the Nexus One smartphone.

When the Nexus One was launched a week ago, developers complained that they had not been given the SDK, making it...

From DailyTech: Security is a big concern for many computer users. The concern for security is bigger than simply the need to protect personal information online; users are also concerned about the security of files and data stored on their local computers.

Proof of concept code has...

From DailyTech: For the last several years it has been the dream of more than one DailyTech editor/laptop gamer to see external GPU enclosures to come to the U.S. market. Most laptop buyers are on a two year or more life cycle, and within a year of buying their laptop, their...

From X-bit Labs: Epic Games, a leading developer of graphics engines and popular Unreal-series video games, this week said that it had joined Khronos Group, an industry group that develops open standards for graphics. Although Epic has supported DirectX for about a decade now, it has...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft asked an appeals court for a rehearing in the patent case that requires the software giant to pay $290 million in damages and prevents it from selling the current version of Word starting on Monday.

The suit charged Microsoft with using a patent owned by...

From PC World: Microsoft will patch Word on the Mac to comply with a federal court's ruling requiring it to remove custom XML technology from its popular word processing software, the company confirmed last week.

On Saturday, Microsoft issued an update for Word 2003 for Windows to...

From CNET News.com: Google's forthcoming Nexus One smartphone is composed of components worth about $175, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli.

The new phone, which Google unveiled Tuesday, offers an inside designed by Google and an outside designed by HTC. The primary...

From CNET News.com: Mozilla has released its first release candidate, RC1, for Firefox 3.6.

The new version includes Personas, which lets people customize the browser's appearance; blocks third-party software from encroaching on its file system turf to increase stability; and...

From DailyTech: The USB 2.0 interface has been a limiting factor for external hard drives even as they were developed. The obsolete interface can only transfer data at 480Mbps (60MB/s), but due to protocol overhead and other problems most users will find their data transfers capped...

From DailyTech: One of the most important technologies at CES this year has turned out to be 3D-ready TVs and the corresponding 3D programming from major satellite providers. Another of the technologies that has been huge at the show has been portable TVs.

Mobile TV has been around...