From CNET News.com: AOL plans to layoff as many as 40 employees, and the cuts will come mostly from the company's instant-messaging and e-mail units, according to a published report.

Eric van Miltenburg, senior vice president of operations, and Jason Shellen, who was overseeing AIM...

From DailyTech: Lenovo and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission have announced a voluntary recall of about 50,500 Lenovo all-in-one computers. The machines being recalled include the ThinkCentre M70z and M90z all-in-one machines. The recall states that consumers who own the...

From DailyTech: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for...Angry Birds?

With NASA's help, Rovio Entertainment's popular mobile game Angry Birds is taking the ongoing bird-pig war to space. PC, Mac, iOS and Android users will soon be able to launch various types of birds at...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital Corp. on Wednesday announced that it had completed its acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, effective March 8, 2012, for $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WDC common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion. Hitachi now...

From X-bit Labs: As Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its next-generation GeForce code-named Kepler in action at Game Developers Conference (GDC) and got applauds for impressive performance, a Chinese web-site published an image of what it claims to be GeForce GTX 670 Ti graphics card.

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From PC World: IBM researchers have developed a prototype optical chip that can transfer data at 1Tbps (terabit per second), the equivalent of downloading 500 high-definition movies, using light pulses, the company said Thursday.

The chip, called Holey Optochip, is a parallel...

From CNET News.com: Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors have been benchmarked by enthusiast site Anandtech.

The blog reported earlier this week that while Ivy Bridge's CPU performance offers only a marginal improvement over its predecessor, Sandy Bridge, it shines on the graphics side...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) legal war with the "Big Three" of the Android world -- HTC Corp. (TPE:2498), Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930), and Google Inc.'s (GOOG) nearly-acquired subsidiary-to-be Motorola Mobility -- has taken on legendary status as worldwide...

From DailyTech: There have been plenty of rumors floating around regarding the release of the iPad 3, but we finally now know all the details on Apple's third generation tablet.

As expected, the major new feature for the iPad is the gorgeous 2048 x 1536 instead of the 1024 x 768...

From X-bit Labs: The $1-per-GB price has been for a long time considered as a holy grail for solid-state drives as it is widely believed that at such price points SSDs will start to be adopted by mainstream users. According to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce market research...