From CNET News.com: Final regulatory approval of Oracle's $7.4 billion takeover of Sun has just hit a snag, courtesy of the European regulators.

The European Commission announced Thursday that it has launched an in-depth investigation into the proposed merger between Oracle and Sun...

From DailyTech: Increasingly, it is exploits of application vulnerabilities that are used to gain access to and control of modern operating systems, not attacks on the OS itself. With Apple relenting and allowing more third party software on its computers in a bid to appeal to a...

From DailyTech: Google's ambition was simple -- offer a first-of-its-kind internet library, where people could travel online to view everything from textbooks to great works of fiction. It began scanning books and quickly met with the ire of the publishing industry. However, it...

From Tom's Hardware: Digitimes today reports that Compal Electronics has received an order for 100,000 netbooks from Nokia. Nokia detailed its Booklet 3G at Nokia World, Stuttgart yesterday morning and to everyone's surprise the device is priced at over $810. While this price tag is...

From Tom's Hardware: According to Digitimes' sources at motherboard makers, Intel's upcoming Core i5-750, Core i7-860 and Core i7-870 CPUs as well as P55 chipsets will be announced on September 8.

While the upcoming Lynnfield platform parts haven't officially been launched yet, some...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices is preparing a desktop processor with six processing engines, sources familiar with the company’s plans revealed. The new central processing units (CPUs) will not be available this year, but are likely to boost performance of AMD’s desktop...

From X-bit Labs: The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) on Tuesday announced the availability of the USB 3.0 compliance and certification program. The program allows manufacturers to achieve certification and qualify to use the SuperSpeed USB logo by testing their products to ensure...

From InfoWorld: Windows Server 2008 R2 will help Microsoft narrow the feature gap with virtualization products from VMware and Citrix Systems, but its new Hyper-V software still won't be "production-ready" for most enterprise applications, according to Burton Group.

The analyst...

From PC World: Microsoft has confirmed that it will be washing its hands of the Zune media player, discontinuing it once the touchscreen Zune HD launches.

WinSuperSite's Paul Thurott got word that all models of the original Zune will be phased out. The Zune HD rolls into town on...

From CNET News.com: Gmail was down from about 12:30 p.m. PDT Tuesday to about 2:30 p.m. PDT, affecting millions of Gmail customers who depend on the service for everything from fantasy football roster updates to business-critical information. The problem was caused by a classic...