From CNET News.com: One of original authors of MySQL, Michael 'Monty' Widenius, has founded the Open Database Alliance, a consortium that aims to become the industry hub for the open source database.

The move was announced Wednesday. The two founding parties of the vendor-neutral...

From DailyTech: Motorola announced yesterday that it scored a massive one-year contract, helping assure its long term global success. The company received a $310M USD contract from China Mobile, the largest cell phone provider in the world, based out of Beijing.

China, according to...

From DailyTech: The recession has had a significant impact on global PC shipments and has led many consumers to shop for netbooks rather than notebook computers. That means that some computer makers that were relatively unknown a few years ago prior to the netbook revolution are now...

From DailyTech: Corsair is a company best known for their DRAM products, targeted mostly at the enthusiast market. In January, they entered the SSD market with a less than stellar product, but it was an important first step.

Things are improving though this week for Corsair Storage...

From CNET News.com: The global recession has hit Sony hard--the company on Thursday reported its first annual loss in 14 years.

Sony lost 165 billion yen ($1.72 billion) in the quarter that ended March 31, the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, compared with net income of 29...

From CNET News.com: After two reports of flaming laptop batteries, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday that Hewlett-Packard is voluntarily recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several models of its HP and Compaq laptops.

The recall affects...

From CNET News.com: Widespread outages involving several Google services--including search, Google Docs, and Gmail--were caused by an upgrade gone awry inside of Google, according to engineers.

Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research for McAfee, said that Google this...

From Tom's Hardware: What AMD has done is that it has taken an ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, which normally runs at 850 MHz, and overclocked it to 1 GHz at the factory – air cooled – and voila, you have yourself the world’s first shipping 1 GHz GPU part.

In fact, if you had your...

From X-bit Labs: PowerColor, a maker of graphics cards that is owned by Tul Corp., said Wednesday that it did not manufacture AGP version of ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics cards and that its listing at Amazon.com was a mistake by the online store.

“Amazon made a mistake in posting AGP...

From InfoWorld: A security researcher has called foul on Microsoft for doing exactly what it has thrashed hackers over for years: revealing information that can be used to hijack computers before a patch is available.

Swa Frantzen, one of the analysts at SANS Institute's Internet...