From Tom's Hardware: These days when someone is in the market for a portable computer, the choices now include netbooks. Most casual internet users mainly surf the web according to their interests and keep communicate via email and social networking sites.

With netbooks being the...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that its Xbox 360 video game console has reached life-to-date sales of 30 million units. While the company is tangibly ahead of its main rival – Sony PlayStation 3 (about 22 million) – Nintendo Wii (about 50 million) is unreachable for...

From InfoWorld: Dell on Thursday reported a 63 percent fall in net income during the first quarter of 2010, triggered partly by reduced PC sales and a restructuring charge related to cost cutting.

The company posted net income of $290 million for the quarter ending on May 1, falling...

From PC World: Intel's upcoming Lynnfield processor will be in the spotlight at the Computex exhibition in Taipei next week, as hardware makers and computer vendors gear up for the release of the chip later this year.

Lynnfield is a successor to Intel's current line of Core i7 chips...

From CNET News.com: Qualcomm and Freescale Semiconductor are ready to begin pushing a category of devices that they say are cheaper, lighter, and more connected than Intel-based Netbooks.

And just to make sure that the difference is crystal clear, both companies are calling the...

From DailyTech: The consumer computer market isn’t the only place where computer sales are hurting. In the enterprise, space sales of server systems are dropping as well. Businesses are holding off on upgrading servers as profits aren't able to keep up with traditional upgrade cycles...

From X-bit Labs: Numerous online stores have started to sell Intel Corp.’s yet unannounced microprocessors. The move indicates that the world’s largest chipmaker is about to officially release them and improve its performance leadership in the high-end market.

The new processors are...

From InfoWorld: Google will add scripting capabilities to Google Docs, allowing organizations to customize its online applications and automate tasks, the company said Wednesday.

Google plans to sign up about 1,000 customers over the next few weeks to test the feature, called Google...

From PC World: We've seen glimmers on the horizon for some time now, but the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has finally made official the third iteration of the serial ATA specification. SATA Revision 3.0 doubles the existing SATA 3Gb/s bandwidth to 6Gb/s, or roughly...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off his speech Thursday talking about the economy, though he also plans to show off Microsoft's revamped search engine within minutes.

In a speech at D: All Things Digital, Ballmer was asked by moderator Walt Mossberg to discuss...