From PC World: NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest cellular carrier, will soon launch improvements to its network that promise data transfers up to 15 times faster than are currently possible -- and it plans even greater changes next year.

The network improvements will begin in June and...

From CNET News.com: Mozilla on Monday released beta 3.5 of Firefox, a revamp of the open-source Web browser designed to include better performance, several new Web programming features, and a private browsing mode.

The earlier betas had been numbered 3.1, but Mozilla switched to the...

From DailyTech: The promise of fast access speeds has lured many enthusiasts over to SSDs already. Maximum capacity is doubling every year, and costs are dropping due to new process technologies being introduced.

One of the most important target markets for SSD manufacturers is...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated its twelve-core microprocessors operating in a 4-way server just days after it said it would start selling six-core chips in May, 2008. Thanks to multi-chip-module nature of the code-named Magny-Cours processor, creation of...

From InfoWorld: Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, agreed to pay chip designer Broadcom $891 million to settle a long running patent dispute to end all courtroom proceedings globally.

The agreement ends litigation in the U.S., the E.U., and Korea and gives...

From PC World: Samsung Electronics became the first major mobile phone maker to launch a smartphone based on Google's Android software.

The South Korean company on Monday unveiled the I7500, which sports a 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera and 8GB of internal memory. It's...

From DailyTech: Facebook, which allowed users to vote in favor or against the new terms of service (TOS) agreement on the site, will adopt the new changes even though the vote count wasn't very high.

Of the 200 million regular users on Facebook, around 666,000 users voted over the...

From DailyTech: Video game rental service GameFly and the United States Postal Service (USPS) could be headed to court over accusations that USPS breaks thousands of game discs each year, and offers preferential treatment to Netflix and Blockbuster.

GameFly claims it sends 590,000...

From Tom's Hardware: Set for a launch in Q3 2009, Intel's 45nm Core i5 (Lynnfield) processor
will come in three flavors: 2.66 GHz, 2.8 GHz, and 2.93 GHz. All three versions will feature four cores (4 threads for the 2.66 GHz version, 8 threads for the other two), 8 MB of L3 cache, a...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said this week that it would start shipments of more advanced processors and core-logic sets aimed at cost-effective ultra-thin notebooks in late Q2 2009. The company also noted that it has design wins with its platform code-named Congo.

“We...