Best Buy Set to Open First Store in UK

From PC World: Best Buy is to open its first UK retail store at West Thurrock Retail Par, Essex on Friday 30 April.

According to Best Buy, the grand opening will be marked with four days of activity over the May Bank Holiday weekend with special deals, competitions, and...

Google: Next Android to support Adobe Flash

From CNET News.com: The lead engineer behind Android has said that support for Adobe Systems' Flash technology will appear in the next version of Google's mobile phone operating system.

Andy Rubin, a vice president of engineering, said in a New York Times interview that Android 2.2...

Digital Sky buys AOL's ICQ

From CNET News.com: AOL clears another asset off its books, just in time for first-quarter earnings: Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investors with a seemingly insatiable appetite for American Web properties (Facebook, Zynga, etc.), is buying Tim Armstrong's ICQ chat service...

Corsair Memory to Become Public Company

From X-bit Labs: Corsair, a leading supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, has announced that it had filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of...

iPad buyers targeted by Windows malware

From InfoWorld: As if to prove the Apple iPad's crossover appeal to PC users, spammers have launched a malware campaign to reel them in using the promise of extras for the new device.

According to BitDefender, the spam campaign invites its would-be victims to download an updated...

Watch Out iPhone, Android Use Is on the Rise

From PC World: Watch out Apple iPhone, Google's mobile operating system, Android continues to increase its popularity at a growth rate of 32 percent year over year, according to a recent report. Mobile advertising provider and metrics firm AdMob, recently acquired by Google for $750...

Google acquires entertainment company LabPixies

From CNET News.com: Google loves to build platforms on which programs run--Android, App Engine, iGoogle, and in the biggest picture, the Web itself. But platforms are of no use, and aren't much fun, without applications on top, so Google often also kick-starts development with...

Verizon adds more Net content to Fios

From CNET News.com: The battle for the 21st century TV viewer is heating up as Verizon Communications adds more Internet content to its Fios TV service. But cable may not be the only competitor Verizon faces as more consumer electronics devices such as Blu-ray players and game...

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