From InfoWorld: Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost market share last month, although at a slower rate than the previous two-month stretch, but still ended at a new low of 67.6 percent as rivals continued to steal users, a Web metrics firm reported Sunday.

Apple's Safari...

From PC World: Western Europeans buying netbooks for Christmas provided some cheer in an otherwise gloomy fourth-quarter PC market.

Netbooks accounted for 2.5 million of the 20.1 million PCs shipped in Western Europe during the quarter, according to new figures from Gartner...

From CNET News.com: Motorola on Tuesday reported a stunning net loss on tumbling revenue for the fourth quarter.

The net loss for the phone maker in the quarter, ended Dec. 31, was $3.6 billion, or $1.57 per share, compared with positive earnings of $100 million (4 cents per share)...

From DailyTech: ASUS is viewed by many as the father of the netbook. It was the first company to release a small, cheap notebook for consumers that quickly spawned a new category in the computer market. Netbooks have done very well with the current financial crisis around the world...

From InfoWorld: The price of the benchmark chips, 1-gigabit DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) DRAM chips that run at 667MHz, rose 27 percent to US$1.08 each, DRAMeXchange Technology reported at 6 p.m. in Taipei. DRAMeXchange runs an online chip clearinghouse.

In the short...

From X-bit Labs: A Federal District Court judge told a hearing on Friday that he will likely rule for chip maker Micron and against Rambus in a controversial patent case. This will be another ruling against Rambus in less than a month. However, the ruling will not extend to other...

From PC World: Adobe has confirmed that Flash capabilities won't be coming to the iPhone anytime soon. Company CEO Shantanu Narayen recently discussed the difficulties in bringing Adobe's most well distributed product to the iPhone. "It's a hard technical challenge, and that's part...

From CNET News.com: The chipmaker will attempt to promote its silicon for sophisticated game effects at the upcoming Game Developer's Conference in March, as it strives to make a case for quad-core processors in lieu of graphics chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.

The...

From DailyTech: Nintendo has revealed sales figures for 26 first-party games that have sold over a million copies. Sales figures for top selling Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii games were provided. Sales include games that were sold as part of hardware bundles.

Wii Sports topped the...

From DailyTech: The economy is down meaning that sales of computers and other technology items like high-end TVs have slowed greatly. The slow sales of computers have hurt many firms in the technology world from the computer maker to the suppliers of the components inside the...