From InfoWorld: Just a day before Microsoft was to have retired Office 2004 for Mac by ending updates and fixes, including security patches, the company said Monday that it would instead extend the five-year-old suite's support until Jan. 10, 2012.

Microsoft announced the 27-month...

From PC World: Things are looking a bit brighter for some T-Mobile Sidekick owners, as some people are reporting the return of lost data. T-Mobile, meanwhile, says it will compensate customers who suffered permanent data loss. Over the weekend, thousands of Sidekick owners reportedly...

From CNET News.com: Cisco Systems plans to buy Starent Networks for about $2.9 billion as it sharpens its focus on mobile networks.

Under a deal announced Tuesday, Cisco will pay $35 per share in cash and assume outstanding equity awards for Tewksbury, Mass.-based Starent. The deal...

From DailyTech: There are few things worse than plunking down your money on an expensive piece of equipment like a computer or home media server only to have new version come out shortly after you buy with more features. Many HP MediaSmart Server owners found themselves in this...

From DailyTech: ATI launched the first DirectX 11 parts less than a month ago. The Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 have been very popular due to their outstanding performance and future-proofed features. However, at MSRPs of $379 and $259 respectively, these cards occupy price points that...

From X-bit Labs: The first desktop six-core microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices code-named “Thuban” are scheduled to arrive rather sooner than later, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. In fact, AMD does its best in order to release its Phenom II X6 central...

From InfoWorld: ARM Holdings is positioning its chips as the main processors in the low-end laptop market, but does not expect these chips to account for a significant part of its revenue, an executive said on Friday.

It decided to enter this market mainly to counter Intel's moves...

From PC World: Microsoft says it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix flaws in every version of Windows, as well as Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, important developer tools and the enterprise-grade Forefront Security client software...

From CNET News.com: Arthur Levinson, former chairman of Genentech, has resigned from Google's board of directors, effective immediately, Google said Monday. A member of Google's board since 2004, Levinson has also served on Apple's board since 2000.

In early August, Google CEO Eric...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft is one of the companies that feels the pressure to most acutely when it comes to putting those cores to work. Though it doesn't pretend to have the problem licked, Microsoft does believe Windows 7 provides a better foundation for using multicore systems...