From X-bit Labs: It looks like Hewlett-Packard is very serious about building up eco-system of devices powered by webOS operating system with other makers of hardware. Just several weeks after confirming the possibility of licensing the webOS, the company now admits negotiations with...

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard's lawsuit against Oracle over its decision to stop developing software for Intel's Itanium processors is a "publicity stunt" and meant to "lay the blame on Oracle for the disruption that will occur when HP's Itanium-based server business inevitably...

From CNET News.com: U.K.-based Synchronica has signed a deal to acquire a Nokia unit that provides e-mail, instant messaging, and other software for cellular carriers.

With the deal, announced late yesterday and expected to close in the third quarter, Synchronica will take over 10...

From DailyTech: For a lot of people, Myspace was their first introduction to modern social networking. News Corp. saw great potential in the site and in 2005 acquired it for a whopping $580M. However, Myspace did little to innovate and keep up with competitors like Facebook in the...

From DailyTech: Intel Corp. (INTC) is finally seeing real competition in the personal computer CPU market for the first time in years. A surging ARM Holdings plc (ARMH) is expected to be powering as many as 50 percent of mobile computers by 2015, thanks to new support from the...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. this week introduced its highest-performing graphics processing unit (GPU) for mobile systems. The new GeForce GTX 580M solution is powered by GF114 graphics chip, which makes it possible to expect premium desktop performance as well as feature-set on a...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices' next-generation Opteron microprocessors based on Bulldozer micro-architecture will support capability to adjust maximum thermal design power (TDP). The technology will allow customers to regulate TDPs in order to balance power consumption and...

From InfoWorld: An Oracle damages expert estimates that Google owes the company $2.6 billion for alleged Java patent violations, according to a court filing made Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

That figure falls in between the "breathtaking"...

From PC World: Little green pigs across the nation are cowering in fear now that Angry Birds has finally come to Windows Phone 7.

It's certainly been a long journey, as All Things D points out: the first we heard of the popular mobile game hitting Windows Phone 7 was before Windows...

From CNET News.com: With the launch of a new social networking platform, Google seems determined not to repeat the privacy missteps it made last year with Google Buzz.

Public criticism, some valid, some not, prompted Google to make a series of quick changes to Buzz a few days after...