From InfoWorld: Microsoft today issued 13 security updates that patched 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office, and other software, including one that harked back two decades to something dubbed "Ping of Death."

Of Tuesday's 13 updates, called "bulletins" by...

From CNET News.com: Verizon is reportedly preventing jailbreakers from unauthorized tethering, at least according to one account at ReadWriteWeb.

The tech blogging site recently revealed that one of its own employees tried to use a jailbroken Motorola phone without a data plan to...

From DailyTech: Like Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. salivates at the prospect of seizing a piece of the soaring tablet market. Two months ago it launched its Z-Series CPUs (code-named Desna), targeting the tablet market.

The design, which weighs in at a modest 5.9 watts...

From DailyTech: In April of this year, Apple launched a lawsuit against mobile competitor Samsung, saying that the South Korean electronics maker stole the interface elements and exterior design of iOS gadgets to make their own. Then, in June 2011, Apple sued Samsung a second time...

From X-bit Labs: Nokia Corp., presently the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Tuesday made another controversial statement claiming that it would stop selling its feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in the U.S. once it makes available its Windows Phone 7.5-based...

From X-bit Labs: Amazon.com and BestBuy have started to take pre-orders on Sony PlayStation Vita portable video game system, which automatically reveals launch dates of PS Vita in Canada and the United States.

Amazon is accepting pre-orders onto Wi-Fi and 3G/Wi-Fi versions of...

From PC World: Can Google+ attract enough users in a year to become more popular in the US than either Twitter or LinkedIn? A new Bloomberg-YouGov survey says yes.

The online survey of 1,003 US adults interviewed from July 29 to August 2, 2011 suggests Google+ is following in...

From CNET News.com: Vizio has launched its 8-inch tablet at a price that could make it a key player in the Android tablet space.

Customers looking to get their hands on the device can head over to Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, Costco, and Amazon, among other retailers, and pick up the...

From DailyTech: Intel first talked about Ultrabooks in May of this year and hopes that large numbers of the machines will be shipped through its partners like ASUS, Acer, and HP among others. So far, no Ultrabooks have hit the market, but they are coming. Intel originally promised...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology, one of the world's largest maker of hard drives, has unveiled the GoFlex Turbo performance drive with SafetyNet data recovery services (DRS). SafetyNet data recovery is the first recovery service offering by a hard drive manufacturer to be...