From CNET News.com: Windows 7 pricing is potentially an obstacle to Windows 7 adoption for some users, though in just about every other aspect the operating system is beating Vista, according to a Dell marketing executive.

"If there's one thing that may influence adoption, make...

From CNET News.com: Amazon.com's cloud-computing arm has added new features to help users monitor cloud resources, adjust capacity, and balance traffic loads.

In an announcement Monday, Amazon Web Services unveiled a public beta of the three new features: the CloudWatch monitoring...

From DailyTech: Google has announced they plan to retake all Japanese photographs for its Street View service due to complaints from residents photographs were taken from a vantage point that was higher than most people’s fences around their homes. The photos were taken by a camera...

From DailyTech: Apple's App Store helped establish the iPhone as a top seller, and was arguably one of Apple’s most visible properties. With Apple recently passing the 1 billion downloads mark; some analysts took to estimating Apple's net income from the store.

Apple Insider, a...

From DailyTech: Microsoft is working hard to make things better for the launch of Windows 7 following the lukewarm reception to Windows Vista. Vista was plagued with early hardware and software incompatibility issues that were one of the main reasons enterprise customers refused to...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft has begun to broaden the testing of its next-generation search technology.

For the past two months, Microsoft has been running an internal test of the technology, which is code-named Kumo. However, some of the design changes that are part of that...

From CNET News.com: Google's love-hate relationship with the advertisers that pay its bills could hit another rocky patch following its latest AdWords policy change.

Google announced Thursday night that starting next month it would begin allowing certain companies to purchase...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second largest supplier of x86 central processing units, will officially unveil its AMD Athlon II X2 and AMD Phenom II X2 processors on June 2, 2009, according to sources close to the chipmaker. The new chips are expected to...

From InfoWorld: Google and Salesforce.com executives stressed the benefits of cloud computing Thursday at a Silicon Valley technology event, with a Google executive going so far as to state that cloud deployments are now necessary for a business to stay competitive.

Executives from...

From PC World: Facebook was hit with yet another phishing attack yesterday as malicious e-mails went to some of the social networking site's 200 million users. The attack, which Facebook is actively fighting, asked members to leave Facebook and access outside sites that then stole...