From InfoWorld: The near total dominance of Microsoft Office in the workplace may be getting a serious challenge from Google Docs, according to a new survey by market research firm IDC.

The study's main finding is that about 1 in 5 companies reported that Google Docs is "widely used...

From InfoWorld: Mozilla has switched to a quick-paced "sprint" cycle for Firefox that it hopes will bring new features to users faster, the company's browser architect said Wednesday.

"We decided we not only needed a way to be more nimble, but that we have a lot of great...

From PC World: Sony's PSPgo is a new portable version of its five-year-old PlayStation Portable handheld gaming platform. The device launches in US and Europe in October, and it's set to go head to head with Apple's iPod touch. But Sony has revealed that its software strategy for the...

From CNET News.com: Twitter users on Thursday will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service.

A new third-party offering from Jajah known as Jajah@call is expected to go into beta Thursday morning that will allow...

From DailyTech: Pentax has unveiled a new D-SLR camera called the K-x today that is aimed at the buyer looking to get their first D-SLR and move up from the point-and-shoot world. The camera packs some very nice features into an affordable package.

One of the coolest things about...

From DailyTech: Apple has been bragging about the security of its new operating system, OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard". Leaping from Leopard to Snow Leopard, Apple gives its users limited antivirus/anti-malware protection (the feature currently only detects two signatures out of a handful...

From DailyTech: AMD has been doing a decent job competing in the mainstream and value CPU markets, but it is facing increasing pressure from the world's largest semiconductor company. Intel holds the current desktop CPU performance crown with Nehalem-based Core i7 processors, and...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday.

The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July...

From CNET News.com: Cambridge, England-based chip company ARM on Wednesday announced the development of dual-core, quad-core, and eight-core Cortex A9 processor designs, explicitly aimed at markets currently served by Intel's x86 chips and IBM's PowerPC.

"This is a huge departure...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp., the world’s largest supplier of microprocessors, denied the report that it was reducing supplies of Intel Atom processors to popularize the more expensive consumer ultra low voltage (CULV) platform and improve its average selling prices.

According to a...