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...

From DailyTech: In late October, DailyTech reported that Intel was once again having firmware issues with its speedy MLC-based SSDs. In the latest case, the new firmware not only boosted write speeds by 40 percent for the 160GB X25-M G2, but it also added TRIM support in Windows 7...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Corp. on Monday unveiled the world’s first controllers for TransferJet close-proximity communication technology. At present the company only ships samples of appropriate chips, hence, final devices that will be able to communicate between themselves rapidly and...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft's Windows ran to stay in place last month as Window 7's market share gains made up for the largest-ever declines in Windows XP and Vista, data released today by Web metrics firm Net Applications showed.

By Net Applications' numbers, Windows 7's gains were...

From PC World: Microsoft has launched a microblog-style service in China based on Windows Live Messenger, expanding the social-networking functions linked to the chat software in a country where it is a hit.

The new service, which is called MSN Juku and is now in beta, lets users...

From CNET News.com: IBM said Monday that it has acquired database security firm Guardium.

Guardium is a leading vendor in monitoring and protecting databases for large enterprises. In addition to securing the data and watching database activity, Guardium's technology can automate...

From CNET News.com: Industry insiders are accusing Apple of manipulating the price of NAND flash memory chips used in its popular iPhone and iPod products, according to a report in The Korea Times on Monday.

Citing unnamed sources, the article says Apple asks manufacturers to...

From DailyTech: With low profit margins and poor sales, some companies producing LCDs have resorted to illegal tactics to help improve their bottom line. Some of the largest companies in the LCD manufacturing industry were embroiled in an LCD price fixing scheme last year that...

From DailyTech: Virtual machines (VMs) are widely used in enterprise and development environments and by individual users. VMs are often used to easily allow multiple operating systems to be run on a single computer.

Sun Microsystems has announced that it has upgraded its VirtualBox...