From InfoWorld: Research In Motion announced on Thursday that users of its PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android and Java applications.

The capability will address one criticism often lodged against the PlayBook: an expected lack of applications.

The PlayBook, which becomes...

From PC World: Asustek Computer will hold production of netbooks at last year's levels as sales of tablets eat into the market for portable PCs, a company product specialist said on Friday.

The Taiwanese manufacturer, the first to come out with a netbook PC, aims to ship 6 million...

From CNET News.com: Intel is getting ready to make a long-belated entry into the smartphone market with a new-and-improved chip. But the usual questions linger.

The most obvious ones are: Will it appear in a phone that is groundbreaking enough to entice buyers? And will this finally...

From DailyTech: Google's Android operating system has been tremendously successful. It's become the top selling phone platform in the world and its app store is stocked with close to 200,000 apps. But for all that success, a perpetual criticism is a perception that Android's...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices does not expect a large number of video games due out this year to use GPU-accelerated open-source OpenCL-based Bullet Physics engine. Apparently, game developers are not really interested in high-quality compute-intensive physics effects due...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading supplier of solid-state drives (SSDs), on Thursday announced that it has shipped its one millionth solid state drive. Since starting to offer SSDs roughly three years ago, solid-state drives became OCZ's major product line and the...

From InfoWorld: Windows users who install the latest Java security patches may end up with a little more security than they bargained for, at least that's the risk they take if they don't pay close attention to the installation process.

Starting last month, Oracle began bundling a...

From CNET News.com: Netflix has apologized for Tuesday's outage of its streaming service.

"We're sorry you may have had trouble watching instantly," an e-mail sent last night to Netflix subscribers reads. The company went on to explain that the outage was "due to technical issues."...

From CNET News.com: Owners of Google's Nexus S smartphones can soon use the device to process mobile payments via near-field communications tech, via software from a company called Charge Anywhere.

Charge Anywhere's existing mobile payments application has already allowed owners of...

From DailyTech: AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 card was a bit of a preposterous preposition to consumers. It was hot, it was noisy, and it was expensive ($700). And it offered users less bang for their buck than two individual Radeon HD 6970s. Still, it was incredibly powerful and...