From PC World: While I was up in the air yesterday crossing the pond, Square Enix launched its Final Fantasy XIV beta program, giving Final Fantasy buffs a shot at early access. If you already know all there is to know about the game, you can skip straight to the action by visiting...

From CNET News.com: There are many ways to measure how Windows 7 is doing. There are reports on new PC sales, tallies of boxed copy sales, and surveys of planned enterprise adoption, to name a few.

But one of the most encouraging signs for Microsoft is the lack of phone calls it is...

From CNET News.com: Talk about unfortunate timing. Research In Motion (RIMM) has confirmed reports that Blackberry users across North America have been experiencing e-mail problems this morning. Evidently, the outage is affecting all BlackBerry users who rely on RIM's Internet-based...

From DailyTech: The iPhone is one of the hottest smartphones on the market. These days the smartphone market is largely delineated is driven by businesses which generally pick a Research in Motion Blackberry smartphone, or regular consumers who are looking for a media-toy (most seem...

From DailyTech: CES 2010 is only a few weeks away and one of the new technologies that is most interesting that will be unveiled at the show is 3D Blu-ray. Blu-ray in 3D will provide 1080p resolution to each eye allowing for full HD playback of 3D movies with compatible displays...

From DailyTech: The United States Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit today against Intel Corporation, currently the world’s largest semiconductor company. The FTC is charging that Intel has illegally used its dominant market position for over a decade to stifle competition and...

From PC World: Recording video on your iPhone is no longer a luxury of just the folks with jailbroken phones or an iPhone 3GS. Apple has approved two separate apps this week in the App Store - Camcorder and iVideoCamera - both retailing for 99 cents. Unfortunately, there are memory...

From CNET News.com: Iran's elections topped Twitter's list of most popular topics of 2009, according to the microblogging site.

"Among all the keywords, hashtags, and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly," the company wrote in a blog post...

From X-bit Labs: vidia Corp.’s Tegra family of system-on-chip (SoC) devices gas not been exactly successful: shipments of actual devices were postponed and the number of design wins is hardly impressive. Nevertheless, Nvidia pins a lot of hopes on the second-generation Tegra SoC that...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices will launch its twelve-core AMD Opteron “Magny-Cours” central processing units (CPUs) for high-end servers in March, 2010, sources close to the company revealed. AMD plans to unveil a broad family of twelve- and eight-core chips for multi...