From Tom's Hardware: Apple has finally settled a four-year-old class-action lawsuit filed by the New York City Employees' Retirement System relating to backdating stock options
. The company has been ordered to pay $14 million to shareholders, $2.5 million to fund corporate...

From CNET News.com: The first beta of Firefox 4 for Android arrived Thursday, offering users of Google's mobile operating system a browser interface with both smart new features and some weaknesses.

Mozilla is trying to reach the fast-growing and increasingly important mobile world...

From CNET News.com: Apple likes glass. A lot. You can tell that much from its many retail stores, and in its products where glass is used in displays, notebook trackpads, and both the front and back of the iPhone 4.

That last place, though is what might be causing the company some...

From DailyTech: Whenever an online company is as popular as Facebook, it will draw complaints and criticisms. Much of the issues that users and privacy advocates have with Facebook center on the privacy policy of the social network and how it allows users to control who sees the...

From DailyTech: Since the launch of the iPhone one critical factor has remained constant. In the smartphone's biggest market -- the United States -- the iPhone was sold exclusively on AT&T. But that's about to change.

The Wall Street Journal claims that multiple sources brief by...

From X-bit Labs: Acer, the largest producer of netbooks in the world, plans to install two operating system onto future netbooks that feature dual-core microprocessors. According to the sources close to the company, installation of both Google Android and Microsoft Windows brings a...

From InfoWorld: Solid-state processor maker SandForce today announced a new line of controllers for enterprise-class drives that promise to double I/Os per second (IOPS) for those products.

SandForce's new SF-2000 family of solid-state drive (SSD) processors use 6Gbps SATA II...

From PC World: During the launch event for Logitech's Revue Google TV box, Google confirmed suspicions that Hulu is blocked from the device.

A video at NewTeeVee provides the heartbreaking evidence. Everything's running fine on Hulu.com until the last few seconds of the video, when...

From CNET News.com: After failing in the gaming business in the mid-1990s with its 3DO console, Panasonic may be making its way back to the industry, reports claim.

According to CrunchGear, which first reported the story this week, Panasonic is building a portable gaming device...

From CNET News.com: Yahoo started rolling out several major changes to its search engine last night with the goal of helping people more quickly find and interact with all the information they need in a single place.

Using the search engine's new "intelligent shortcuts," you can...