From DailyTech: Amazon acquired the snarky deal-of-the-day website Woot yesterday, The Dallas News reports, for a price tag of $110 million in cold, hard cash. And according to an e-mail sent out to all Woot employees by CEO Matt Rutledge, some free downloads were thrown in for good...

From DailyTech: We can't say that we didn't see this one coming. When Microsoft announced the the KIN One and KIN Two smartphones in April, we were concerned that the customers targeted by Microsoft -- those ranging from tweens to college-aged adults -- just weren't gonna fall for...

From DailyTech: Android 2.2 seemed pretty cool, bringing Flash 10.1, a Davlik JIT compiler for faster apps, and the ability to run apps off a memory card. But Google's recently unveiled Android 3.0 operating system, codenamed "Gingerbread" may make Android 2.2 "Froyo" look downright...

From Tom's Hardware: Crucial is rolling out an SSD that it hopes will be able to capture those on the cusp of buying an SSD, but waiting for a lower price. The speedy RealSSD C300, which boasts a sequential 355MB/s read speed, will now have a 64GB baby brother for $149.99.

"The 64GB...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics this week said that it had developed the industry's first 32GB load-reduced, dual-inline memory module (LRDIMM), for server applications. The new memory module is aimed at servers designed for virtualization, cloud computing and other high...

From InfoWorld: Just six days after the iPhone 4's launch, a pair of Maryland residents sued Apple and AT&T, alleging that the smartphone's defective antenna design drops calls and can't hold a strong signal.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Maryland, claimed Apple knowingly...

From PC World: nternet Explorer has been in a freefall compared to its hotter rivals Firefox and Google's Chrome lately, but Microsoft's browser has finally reversed a small portion of its worldwide market share losses.

Just a year ago, IE share stood at 66.97%, but has since...

From CNET News.com: With the arrival of the iPad in April, many tech pundits wrote off Amazon's similarly sized--and similarly priced--Kindle DX as a non-viable product. But almost three months after Apple launched its tablet, Amazon is making efforts to resuscitate the DX with a...

From CNET News.com: Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition.

"All IBM employees will be asked to use it as their default browser," Bob Sutor, vice president of...

From DailyTech: Cisco has announced a new mobile device that combines a business telephone system with a tablet for video conferencing and video calls. The device is called the Cisco Cius. The Cius weighs 1.15 pounds and allows the benefits of Cisco collaboration applications in a...