From PC World: Microsoft's Windows Division president Steven Sinofsky tried Wednesday to tamp down a growing roar that Windows 7 RTM has a critical flaw that can shut down the OS by running a simple command.

"Sorry to get dragged into this," wrote Sinofsky, taking the unusual step...

From CNET News.com: Lenovo reported a net loss for its fiscal first quarter as revenue skidded 18 percent because of weak enterprise spending.

The company reported a net loss of $16 million, or 18 cents a share, in the first quarter, on revenue of $3.5 billion. Lenovo, which remains...

From DailyTech: At long last Microsoft and Yahoo are united. While staying separate corporate entities, Yahoo's search algorithm with be replaced by Microsoft's fancy new Bing search engine and Yahoo's staff will be put to work selling Microsoft's new advertising platform.

The...

From DailyTech: Apple's OS X 10.6 may be just around the corner, but that isn't stopping the folks from Cupertino from updating its current Leopard operating system to version 10.5.8. In what may be the last major update until Snow Leopard comes around, this latest service update...

From X-bit Labs: It was first semiconductor division of Siemens AG, which manufactured and developed various chips and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), that got spun off to form Infineon AG in 1999. In 2006, Infineon itself spun off its memory business into separate legal entity...

From X-bit Labs: Elpida Memory, the only maker of dynamic random access memory in Japan, has reportedly shown its interest in acquiring graphics memory business from insolvent Qimonda. The company and the insolvency administrators can ink the deal already in August, but in addition...

From PC World: One of the best things about following celebrity Twitterers is their candor -- or at least, the illusion of it -- but at ESPN, that open approach to Twitter is going away.

Last night, NBA writer and analyst Ric Bucher tweeted that he received a company memo...

From PC World: Google Maps is an immersive online experiences when it comes to travel, but if you're scouting a foreign city and are not sure where to go, you were previously left to heed the words of a guidebook. Google wants to change all that. Points of interest in major cities...

From CNET News.com: Google on Wednesday said it will acquire On2 Technologies, a video compression company, for $106.5 million.

Under the terms of the stock swap, each share of On2 will be exchanged for 60 cents worth of Google common stock.

Google just made a few penny stock...

From DailyTech: Nikon has announced a new point-and-shoot camera called the CoolPix S1000pj that adds something no one has done yet, and it is very interesting. The camera is the world's first to integrate a projector into the design. The camera can throw an image of up to 40-inches...