From X-bit Labs: By 2013, smartphones will double their share of all cell phones to about 20%, reports In-Stat market research firm. Global smartphone growth this year will be strong globally, but even stronger in the U.S. market.

At present smartphones command about 10% of global...

From PC World: Google's share of Internet search in China moved up a hair last year, statistics from the government's number cruncher show, indicating the company continues to struggle against market leader Baidu.

Google captured 16.6 percent of Chinese search engine users last year...

From CNET News.com: Mozilla reported more vulnerabilities in its Firefox Web browser last year than Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera combined, but Mozilla dealt with those flaws quicker than Microsoft, according to a new a report by vulnerability-testing company Secunia.

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From DailyTech: Google is sitting on a big pile of cash while many of its competitors are burning through their cash surpluses, trying to weather the rough economy. Many have speculated that the company is saving up to make a big acquisition. Others hope that Google might start...

From Tom's Hardware: Asus chairman Jonney Shih reiterated that the company would shift its focus most heavily on the 10-inch offerings. Shih also denied the Digitimes report from February saying that Asus would be ditching the 8.9-inch models. Instead, it’ll be the 7-inchers that’ll...

From PC World: atch out, people: Bigger online ads are headed your way. Google AdSense, one of the largest ad providers on the web, yesterday introduced expandable ads that will grow to twice their height or width. The ads will also act as a layer over an existing Web page--which...

From PC World: One of YouTube's main attractions is the plethora of music videos available for instantaneous viewing -- it's a modern-day MTV without the reality shows and attempts to regain coolness. The problem is, those videos are locked under copyright and aren't making money for...

From CNET News.com: DailyTech reported a couple weeks back on Microsoft's release of its Windows Vista and Server 2008 Service Pack 2's Release Candidate. The SP2 RC was only available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Not wanting to leave the general public out of the testing...

From Tom's Hardware: The new Z Drive from OCZ is a storage device that connects to an x8 PCIe slot and offers 1 terabyte of storage capacity. The Z Drive is about the same size a dual-slot graphics card, so its not exactly small, but the device is stated to offer maximum read and...

From X-bit Labs: Lenovo Group on Wednesday once again reiterated its intentions to acquire other PC makers in order to gain market share. The world’s fourth largest PC supplier was little more specific than usual and said that it was interested to make acquisitions in the so-called...