From PC World: A new Google patent could enable the search giant to base advertising on background noise during phone conversations, although the scope of the patent is much broader.

Google was awarded a patent Tuesday for advertising based on based on "environmental conditions," as...

From CNET News.com: Although it once seemed that Microsoft and TiVo could never come to terms, the companies have decided to walk away from all their lawsuits and pretend like they never happened.

TiVo today issued a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC...

From DailyTech: Adobe Systems Incorporated has released Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta to the public for both Windows and Mac OS.

Photoshop is a graphics editing program that is developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated. The latest version, Photoshop CS6 beta, will allow users...

From DailyTech: Acer has unveiled its latest member of its Iconia tablet family, which also happens to be its first to use the quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. The tablet is called the Iconia Tab A510 and was officially announced today.

The device has a 10.1-inch screen with...

From X-bit Labs: Globalfoundries announced on Wednesday that it had reached a major milestone at Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany: the shipment of a quarter million wafers based on 32nm high-K metal gate (HKMG) technology, which took about a year. The contract maker of semiconductors...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. is working on a new Atom system-on-chip that will feature graphics core inherited from code-named "Ivy Bridge" microprocessor and thus supporting DirectX 11 capabilities. The new chips are already listed in Intel's drivers and will likely be released in...

From PC World: Next week, two proposals for a new, smaller SIM card, dubbed nano-SIM -- one backed by Apple and the other by Nokia, Research In Motion and Motorola Mobility -- will go head-to-head as ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) decides which card future...

From CNET News.com: Nokia's Lumia 710, often lost in the shadow of its higher-profile brothers, has actually gained a modest foothold at T-Mobile USA.

While not a blockbuster, the Lumia 710 has gotten decent traction at T-Mobile's online store. Web sites such as Amazon and Wirefly...

From DailyTech: Netflix recently changed its terms of service to include a passage which asks users to surrender their right to take Netflix to court.

The addition to Netflix's terms of service says that users who agree have no right to take Netflix to court, no matter what the...

From DailyTech: Hewlett-Packard Comp. (HPQ) is one of the oldest PC companies in existence. It was founded in 1939, when the "personal computer" was just a dream in the minds of science fiction writers. And despite recent "turbulence" (to put it lightly) HP remains the largest...