From PC World: Google has launched Me on the Web, a new tool allowing anyone with a Google account to monitor what personal information about them appears online.

Google's Me on the Web Keeps User Data Under WrapsMe on the Web allows users to create e-mail alerts that will be sent...

From DailyTech: You can always count on Apple to bring a out a yearly promotion to get parents to buy new Macs for their college-aged children. This year is no exception, although the added perks this go around are decidedly less tasty than last year.

Students will receive a $100...

From DailyTech: Sporting a Metro-UI inspired makeover, support for ARM architecture CPUs, and putting Ribbons in places that some people might not be ready for (e.g. Windows Explorer), Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) upcoming Windows 8 is the software giant's "riskiest product", according...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to boost sales of digital content, Amazon, the biggest electronic store in the world, reportedly plans to release an own-brand media tablet.

Amazon is the largest retailer of books, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and other media. But as sales of physical media...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices confirmed on Tuesday at its AMD Fusion Development Summit (AFDS) that it would release a new breed of graphics processing units (GPUs) later this year. Apparently, AMD's code-named Southern Island graphics processing units are on-track to be...

From InfoWorld: For the second time in nine days, Adobe on Tuesday patched a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers were already exploiting.

Adobe also updated its popular Reader PDF viewer to quash 13 new bugs and several older ones the company had not gotten around to...

From CNET News.com: Socially engineered threats remain a major security concern on mobile devices, so to help protect its users Lookout Mobile Security (download) has added "safe browsing" to its premium version today at no extra cost. Safe browsing checks links you tap before they...

From DailyTech: This probably won't come as a shock to many, but Nintendo has made it clear that its upcoming Wii U console will not playback DVD or Blu-ray content according to Kotaku. The lack of Blu-ray functionality is a given; no one would expect Nintendo to adopt the disc...

From X-bit Labs: At the AMD Fusion Development Summit (AFDS), Advanced Micro Devices for the first time demonstrated its next-generation code-named Trinity accelerated processing unit (APU) in action. This is the first evidence that the chip, which will be released as AMD's...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday finally formally introduced its code-named Llano A-series accelerated processing units (APUs) that feature the company's current-generation processor cores as well as desktop-class DirectX 11-compatible graphics processing unit (GPU)...