From DailyTech: In the final wave of 5,000 global job cuts announced by Microsoft at the start of 2009, the software giant announced 800 more job layoffs.

"I can confirm we're eliminating 800 jobs today," Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos told WSJ. "That's part of the larger...

From DailyTech: Intel is no stranger to lawsuits. The company was slapped with a $1.45B USD fine by the EU in May of this year for anticompetitive practices. The charges leveled against Intel mainly focused on illegal methods Intel used to keep AMD from gaining in traction in the...

From Tom's Hardware: Looking for an external (or internal) drive to store all those "special files" on disk? Look no further than OWC's Mercury Pro 12x Blu-ray burner, using a Pioneer BDR-205 and costing a whopping $349.99 USD. This Blu-ray drive supports burning up to 50 GB of data...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has initiated negotiations with China-based manufacturers of graphics cards regarding making products based on Larrabee graphics processing unit (GPU) due in 2010. The consultations mean that Intel is more or less confident that its first discrete...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital has finally announced its first ever Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drive for enterprises after years of reluctance to enter the SAS market. The new S25 drive hardly looks like a completely new product, but as a re-engineered VelociRaptor...

From InfoWorld: Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.

The patches were issued separately on Tuesday, with Sun releasing version 6 Update 17 of its Java Runtime Environment and BlackBerry updating its...

From PC World: High Tech Computer (HTC) on Wednesday launched the HD2 smartphone, a thin, light handset with a big 4.3-inch touchscreen.

The device, which is only 11-millimeters thick, is already shipping to Europe and Asia and will be available to consumers around the middle of...

From CNET News.com: A massive outage left many T-Mobile USA customers across the country unable to make calls or get data on their cellular phones on Tuesday.

In a statement, T-Mobile said it is working to get its service back up and running.

"T-Mobile customers may be experiencing...

From DailyTech: Did Windows 7's big release slow down Apple's Mac sales? Not so, says new information from market researchers Net Applications.

Hot off a terrific quarter, there's high expectations on Apple to post terrific growth. Thus it made many of Apple's investors and fans...

From DailyTech: The AMD/ATI success story in the GPU sector has shown little signs of fading with the transition from the 4000 series to the 5000 series. Continuing its competitive pricing, AMD's 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5750, the world's first DirectX 11 GPUs, are all showing strong...