From InfoWorld: Intel on Wednesday said it would invest $300 million in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks, a class of thin and light laptops promoted as an alternative to tablet PCs.

The Intel Capital Ultrabook Fund will invest in companies developing hardware...

From PC World: Remember when Sega abandoned the hardware biz to be a games-only developer? More than a trifle unsettling for gamers accustomed to Sega perennially battling Nintendo, but here we are, a decade later, and the Tokyo headquartered company has thousands of employees and...

From CNET News.com: HTC is expected to announce Thursday that it has acquired a 51 percent stake in Beats Electronics, the company that manufacturers the Beats by Dr. Dre headphones and loudspeakers, sources close to the talks told CNET today.

HTC, a maker of popular smartphones...

From DailyTech: The world's most popular smartphone operating system, Google Inc.'s Android OS, can't seem to catch a break these days. If its not being attacked in court by rival smartphone maker Apple, Inc. whose looking to forcibly remove its products from market with lawsuits...

From X-bit Labs: The USB 3.0 Promoter Group on Wednesday announced that it is creating a new power delivery specification which will significantly extend the capabilities and usages of cable bus power in USB applications. The new technology will allow to deliver up to 100W of power...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said on Wednesday that the AMD Radeon-branded memory modules that emerged for sale in certain regions are just a test of the opportunity and the company is currently trying to find out whether it makes sense to sell such products. The company...

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From InfoWorld: Microsoft today issued 13 security updates that patched 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office, and other software, including one that harked back two decades to something dubbed "Ping of Death."

Of Tuesday's 13 updates, called "bulletins" by...

From CNET News.com: Verizon is reportedly preventing jailbreakers from unauthorized tethering, at least according to one account at ReadWriteWeb.

The tech blogging site recently revealed that one of its own employees tried to use a jailbroken Motorola phone without a data plan to...

From DailyTech: Like Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. salivates at the prospect of seizing a piece of the soaring tablet market. Two months ago it launched its Z-Series CPUs (code-named Desna), targeting the tablet market.

The design, which weighs in at a modest 5.9 watts...