From DailyTech: Windows 7 -- like previous version of Windows -- comes in several different versions aimed at the retail market. In Windows 7's case, there's Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. Many have noted that while Professional is a definite step up from Home Premium...

From DailyTech: The world of computer forensics is growing rapidly as police and governments realize that the wealth of digital information on a suspected criminal's computer can be hard to retrieve. To help legal agencies convict criminals, Dell has announced a new product offering...

From DailyTech: Netbooks are still burning up the computer sales charts as consumers continue to buy the small machines for their low price tags and portability. Most major computer makers now offer a netbook, but Apple still holding out.

Earlier this year, Sony announced its VAIO...

From CNET News.com: Google Apps have all grown up.

No longer must Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk carry the beta tag of shame; they are all now full-fledged members of the Google family of products. Google has been hinting this was coming over the past few...

From CNET News.com: Opening a new tab in a browser is a moment ripe with opportunity, and Google has begun testing a version of Chrome that can present new options when users do so.

Chrome's current new-tab interface, which also shows by default when the browser is first launched...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of hard disk drives, may delay introduction of its solid-state drives to 2011 because of the issues with relationships between LSI Corp. and Seagate. According to analysts from Pacific Crest Securities, Seagate will have...

From X-bit Labs: After not finding an investor eager to acquire the whole company, Qimonda AG has appointed several companies to sell 300mm production equipment from the firm’s manufacturing facilities in Germany and the USA. This may easily mean that the company does not have hope...

From InfoWorld: For the second time in six weeks, Microsoft today confirmed that hackers are exploiting an unpatched bug in DirectX, this time by attacking Internet Explorer (IE).

The company's security team issued an advisory Monday acknowledging reports of in-the-wild attacks and...

From PC World: The just-released beta of Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2010 is more notable for what's under the hood than what you actually see. However, if you're planning to try it out, you'd better not do it on your main PC -- this is not only a beta release, but a...

From CNET News.com: A report claiming that Nvidia has been ousted from Apple laptop designs has gained prominence quickly because the graphics chip supplier is still dogged by past problems.

"The word is that Nvidia is out of Apple designs," according to a June 26 report from...