From X-bit Labs: In a bid to boost sales of digital content, Amazon, the biggest electronic store in the world, reportedly plans to release an own-brand media tablet.

Amazon is the largest retailer of books, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and other media. But as sales of physical media...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices confirmed on Tuesday at its AMD Fusion Development Summit (AFDS) that it would release a new breed of graphics processing units (GPUs) later this year. Apparently, AMD's code-named Southern Island graphics processing units are on-track to be...

From InfoWorld: For the second time in nine days, Adobe on Tuesday patched a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers were already exploiting.

Adobe also updated its popular Reader PDF viewer to quash 13 new bugs and several older ones the company had not gotten around to...

From CNET News.com: Socially engineered threats remain a major security concern on mobile devices, so to help protect its users Lookout Mobile Security (download) has added "safe browsing" to its premium version today at no extra cost. Safe browsing checks links you tap before they...

From DailyTech: This probably won't come as a shock to many, but Nintendo has made it clear that its upcoming Wii U console will not playback DVD or Blu-ray content according to Kotaku. The lack of Blu-ray functionality is a given; no one would expect Nintendo to adopt the disc...

From X-bit Labs: At the AMD Fusion Development Summit (AFDS), Advanced Micro Devices for the first time demonstrated its next-generation code-named Trinity accelerated processing unit (APU) in action. This is the first evidence that the chip, which will be released as AMD's...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday finally formally introduced its code-named Llano A-series accelerated processing units (APUs) that feature the company's current-generation processor cores as well as desktop-class DirectX 11-compatible graphics processing unit (GPU)...

From PC World: Facebook has questioned the accuracy suggesting that the social networking giant's popularity in North America is declining. The Inside Facebook website had suggested that Facebook saw a drop of 7.3 million users in the United States and Canada in May, and that...

From CNET News.com: After more than 15 years of waiting, Duke Nukem Forever has arrived in the U.S.

"June 14 in North America will forever be celebrated as the day that the legendary Duke Nukem Forever went from video game folklore to earth-shattering reality," Christoph Hartmann...

From DailyTech: Motorola Mobility unveiled a new device yesterday that streams live TV to a connected IP device anywhere in a house.

The Motorola Televation is a broadband device that employs a 1GHz digital tuner and CableCard to access broadcast TV channels from a coaxial outlet...