From DailyTech: Are you a couch potato looking to score America's best selling phone? Apple and AT&T now have you covered.

With the release of the 3G iPhone, a noticeable change was the at-home activation being mostly dropped (though still available in some circumstances). Now...

From InfoWorld: Intel and Ericsson are offering to protect lost or stolen laptops by sending an SMS (Short Message Service) to the laptop will render it useless to thieves.

The two companies said Thursday that they are making Ericsson's mobile broadband modules -- which add built-in...

From PC World: Like a splash of cold water, the latest word electrifying entertainment feeds is that EA's evolutionary toy-game Spore is the most pirated PC game of 2008. According to Torrent Freak, a weblog that professes to cover the BitTorrent biz, Spore is the most downloaded...

From CNET News.com: Google hopes the second time will be a charm for a Gmail Labs feature that lets people send text messages to people's mobile phones with the company's Web-based e-mail service.

"A few weeks back, we ran into a few snags when we first started rolling this out, but...

From DailyTech: The casualties in the slowing economy continue are continuing to mount. When most people think of office supply stores, companies like Staples and Office Depot -- and to a lesser extent, Office Max -- spring to mind. Today, Office Depot announced that it is cutting...

From InfoWorld: Having coined the phrase "the network is the computer" more than a decade ago Sun Microsystems could expect to be leading the march towards cloud computing, but in some ways it is still at the start line.

Sun recently pulled the plug on its Grid Compute Utility...

From PC World: Sony Computer Entertainment will open up its Home online virtual environment to all PlayStation 3 users from Thursday, it said Wednesday.

Home allows users to create their own avatars and participate in a real-time virtual world, something like a cross between the Mii...

From CNET News.com: Intel has completed the development phase of its next-generation manufacturing process that shrinks chip circuitry to 32 nanometers, the chipmaker said Tuesday night.

Intel processors are currently made on a 45nm process. Generally, smaller geometries result in...

From DailyTech: Physics processing in video games promised a lot when it first came to market, but the reality was that physics processing hardware like the Ageia PhysX card was simply not very good and added little in the way of realism or performance to games.

NVIDIA acquired...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has released an early version of an open-source content management platform that developers can use to build sophisticated blogs or large Web sites.

Called Oxite, its creators describe it as a standards-compliant and highly extensible content management...