From X-bit Labs: Performance that Advanced Micro Devices' eight-core processor demonstrated in real-world applications is far from impressive as the chip barely outperforms competing quad-core central processing units from Intel. The reason why performance of the long-awaited...

From X-bit Labs: Corsair Memory, a leading supplier of high-performance components for PCs, on Thursday introduced the world’s first high-speed 8GB DDR3 memory modules as well as high-end Dominator 32GB quad-channel memory kit for Intel Corp.’s forthcoming LGA2011 platforms.

The...

From PC World: Research In Motion's president and co-CEO apologized to users Thursday for the service outages on the Blackberry network since Monday across a large swath of countries including the U.S. and Canada.

The company had not delivered on its goal to provide reliable, real...

From CNET News.com: Hardware acceleration offers a range of benefits to Web browsers--faster performance, lower battery consumption, and new features that would be otherwise impractical. So it's no surprise that browser makers--catalyzed in part by Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9-...

From DailyTech: When it comes to protecting its intellectual property, Apple has recently been on the warpath. Unfortunately for Samsung, it has been on the receiving end of a barrage of legal challenges from Apple. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 has already been kicked out of Germany...

From DailyTech: Sony Corp.'s new SVP & Chief Information Security Officer, Philip Reitinger, certainly has his work cut out for him. While beloved by many gamers, Sony is also loathed by many hackers for its such tactics as trying to sue modders of legally purchased consoles into...

From X-bit Labs: The long-awaited Bulldozer micro-architecture was so late to market that it fails to impress and its performance looks pale in comparison with the latest central processing units from Intel Corp. based on Sandy Bridge micro-architecture. Nonetheless, AMD remains...

From InfoWorld: Michael Dell sees no benefit to splitting off a PC division, and is probably wondering why Hewlett-Packard is even considering such a move.

Dell Inc. is holding its first enterprise user conference in Austin, Texas, this week with a number of themes, including the...

From PC World: The production of hard disks at Western Digital (WD) facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand, has been halted following severe flooding, the company said on Wednesday.

This is monsoon season in Thailand, but the rains this year have been the hardest to hit the country...

From CNET News.com: According to the BBC, a total of 1.6 million of the affected sets have been sold worldwide. Citing a page on Sony's Europe Web site, the news service says Sony's KDL-40D3400, KDL-40D3500, KDL-40D3550, and KDL-40D3660 models, among several others, have been tagged...