From CNET News.com: Google and Microsoft have joined a group devoted to creating a way that cell phone buyers can easily comprehend the quality of their camera phones.

The International Imaging Industry Association said the tech titans signed up to help with the third phase of the...

From DailyTech: Microsoft has already rolled out its new Bing search engine, the successor to Live Search/MSN Search. The new search engine powers Microsoft search homepage (Bing.com) and partner Yahoo's search page. Google, which enjoys a sizable lead over Microsoft and Yahoo, has...

From DailyTech: Overheating problems in mobile electronics are hardly new territory, but they're always unpleasant to say the least. Thus when news broke earlier this week that some users' Dell Latitude E6400 and E6500 (as well as select XPS notebooks) were overheating and...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it began shipping its 32Gb multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND flash chips with an asynchronous DDR (double data rate) interface made using 30nm-class process technology to major OEMs at the end of November.

“With the new DDR MLC...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of flash and DRAM, on Tuesday announce that it had commenced the industry’s first volume production of 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc), multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND flash chips using 30nm process technology. The chips will be used...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has denied that its November Windows updates are causing a widespread "black screen" lock-out of users' PCs.

"Microsoft has investigated reports that its November security updates made changes to permissions in the registry that are resulting in system...

From PC World: Mac clone maker Psystar has agreed to pay Apple nearly $2.7 million in a partial settlement approved today by the federal judge who has overseen the 17-month case.

Psystar has also halted sales of Intel-based clones with Mac OS X preinstalled. Late Tuesday, its Web...

From CNET News.com: Comcast is very close to sealing the deal to acquire NBC Universal, CNBC anchor and reporter David Faber reported Tuesday. The only thing left to do is sign the papers.

Faber said in a story posted on the CNBC Web site that the deal is expected to be formally...

From CNET News.com: Many challenges will have to be solved before Google is ready to release Chrome OS, it's browser-based operating system for Netbooks. One of the biggest ones could be something as far offline as it gets.

Driver support has derailed many an operating system...

From DailyTech: Apparently Apple is not the only major OEM to have some serious quality control issues/BIOS issues. Dell is facing what is being dubbed as "throttlegate" -- what boils down to a mess up performance problems on its popular E6400, E6500, and XPS laptops. And to make...