From DailyTech: GE is a major company with a wide range of products and operations around the world. The company has announced that it intends to start a new trial using smart meters in homes and WiMAX 4G service to optimize energy delivery/consumption.

The new pilot program is the...

From DailyTech: LG Electronics plans to sell 1 million 3DTV models by the end of the year, which will give it roughly one-fourth of the developing market. LG is the No. 2 TV brand in the world, and sees the growing 3D market as a key industry business. The South Korean company also...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Computer Entertainment announced Monday that its PlayStation 3 game console would no longer support installation of third-party operating systems, including Linux. The move is unlikely to reduce popularity of the PS3 in general, but it will almost certainly...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said that its highly-anticipated AMD Opteron processors with eight and twelve cores are finally available on the market. The new chips will allow AMD to tangibly boost its market share and will also make 4-way servers to become more...

From InfoWorld: Google mobile services have been partly blocked in China, according to the company, after it snubbed the Chinese government over censorship last week.

A China status page set up by Google shows its mobile services were partially blocked in the country starting Sunday...

From PC World: Microsoft announced it will issue an emergency security update for Internet Explorer (IE) today to patch a zero-day vulnerability that has been used to launch drive-by attacks for at least several weeks.

Tuesday's update will be the second out-of-band update --...

From CNET News.com: Tony Fadell, one of the fathers of the iPod and iPhone, is formally severing ties with Apple after nine years at the company, according to a New York Times report.

Fadell had served as senior vice president of the iPod for seven years and was largely credited...

From CNET News.com: In addition to a new iPhone model that works on AT&T's network, Apple is also reportedly prepping an iPhone that is compatible with Verizon's network.

The Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed sources in a story Monday who say one of Apple's contract manufacturers-...

From DailyTech: A new study by security researchers at BeyondTrust gives Microsoft's Windows 7 a thumbs up when it comes to security. It finds that while the hundreds of thousands of active malicious users worldwide (if not millions) may be able, in some cases, to compromise the...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. is a master at getting its customers to give it plenty of revenue when it comes to operating systems. On desktops it follows a more frequent release schedule than competitor Microsoft, which means that even with cheaper licenses, it still typically ends...