From CNET News.com: According to AdAge Microsoft has actually made changes to one of the Laptop Hunter ads.

It's the one featuring Lauren, the aspiring law student, and her mom, who claimed that Lauren usually gets what she wants.

In the original version of the ad, Lauren, who...

From DailyTech: Microsoft's track record of late has been mixed. While its Xbox 360 sells relatively well and has an excellent game-attach rate, it is still overshadowed in total sales by the Nintendo Wii. Microsoft's Zune has failed to generate significant market share, but it has...

From DailyTech: Early last week Apple rolled out iTunes 8.2.1, a sneaky little update with a hidden agenda -- to kill the Palm Pre's syncing with Apple's iTunes software. As the owner of the majority of the MP3 player market, Apple's iPods can only officially sync with iTunes. This...

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, confirmed that it is on-track to launch its first lineup of DirectX 11 graphics processing units (GPUs) “in the back half of the year” and that the product family will ramp up very quickly in the channel market...

From X-bit Labs: Corsair Memory has resolved issues with Elpida “Hyper” memory chips and on Wednesday re-launched its Dominator GT products powered by the appropriate ICs. The firm said it worked closely with Elpida to resolve the issues and it can be expected that other memory...

From InfoWorld: Adobe Systems Inc. late Wednesday admitted its Flash and Reader software have a critical vulnerability and promised it would patch both next week.

One security researcher, however, said Adobe's own bug-tracking database shows that the company has known of the...

From PC World: Late yesterday, Yahoo announced that it had acquired Xoopit--a company known for its photo management tools--and said it plans to integrate the service as a new feature in Yahoo Mail. Xoopit is the company behind My Photos, a third-party application for Yahoo's e-mail...

From CNET News.com: Apple introduced on Thursday a new version of Final Cut Studio, the company's high-end video production suite.

The suite comes with six applications in all, including Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5, and DVD Studio Pro 4...

From DailyTech: The largest chipmaker on the planet -- Intel -- has appealed the EU ruling that fined it $1.45 billion for antitrust allegations. The massive fine is the largest ever imposed on a company by the EU and stemmed from what the EU calls abuse of its market dominant...

From DailyTech: Last week Windows 7 builds claiming to be the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build of Windows 7 hit torrents. Only, it wasn't really the RTM build, Microsoft announced midweek -- the RTM build was still forthcoming. The natural question remaining was -- when...