From CNET News.com: The former CEO and chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, Hector Ruiz, has been linked to the Galleon insider-trading case, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

This revelation comes after an unnamed executive at AMD was cited repeatedly in...

From DailyTech: Lenovo has unveiled a new line of computers that all run the new Windows 7 OS. The machines slot into Lenovo's line of IdeaPad laptops and IdeaCenter desktop systems. The new line includes the U150, U550, and Y550P IdeaPads; and the B500, K300, and H230 IdeaCenter...

From DailyTech: It seems as though Intel just can't catch a break with its new X-25M G2 solid state drives (SSDs). Shortly after launching the drives in late July, Intel had to suspend shipments of the drives due to a data corruption problem. A firmware update was issued to correct...

From DailyTech: Google Voice has been a rather controversial service since it debuted. The service allows a user to give out one phone number for their office, mobile, and landline phones to users and get the calls on whatever device they are using. The big catch to the service so...

From CNET News.com: Apple is reportedly shopping its rumored tablet to media companies in Australia to gauge interest in having their products available on the device when its released, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. While specifications of the device were reportedly sent...

From CNET News.com: Cisco Systems said Tuesday it plans to buy privately held Web-based security software company ScanSafe for about $183 million.

The all-cash deal, which also includes retention-based incentives, is expected to close in Cisco's fiscal second quarter, which ends in...

From Tom's Hardware: Tilera Corporation earlier today announced its TILE-Gx family of processors, thus revealing the company's intentions on taking on CPU giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The new series consists of four multi-core processors: 16, 36, 64, and a whopping 100...

From X-bit Labs: Kingston, a leading supplier of flash-based products, on Monday released its new solid-state drive (SSD) designed specifically to speed up Windows 7 boot-up time and operation. The new SSDNow V-series does not offer substantial capacity or extreme performance, but...

From InfoWorld: VMware has added support for Windows 7 and expanded the ability to handle virtual processors in Workstation 7, the new version of its platform for running multiple OSes simultaneously on a PC.

The new version of Workstation, announced Tuesday, supports the 32-bit and...

From PC World: Verizon Wireless yesterday became the first carrier to officially release Research In Motion's (RIM) latest major BlackBerry device software upgrade, BlackBerry OS 5.0 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530. Storm users need only connect their devices to RIM's BlackBerry...