From DailyTech: A series of online attacks has sent Sony Corp. (6758) reeling. The company first experienced a near complete loss of information from its two largest customer databases -- the PlayStation Network (PSN) database and the Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) database. This...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. has issued a statement that retracts a promise made by the company's own chief executive officer to release the next-generation Windows 8 operating system (OS) in 2012. Apparently, officially, the company still has not scheduled the launch of the new...

From X-bit Labs: Desktop versions of code-named Llano accelerated processing units (APUs) by Advanced Micro Devices are likely to be rather inexpensive, which may make them popular among PC builders as well as end-users and will allow AMD to increase its market share. According to a...

From InfoWorld: Technology giant Hewlett-Packard will acquire Printelligent to bolster its position in managed printing services for business clients, the two companies said on Tuesday.

An agreement between the two will let HP acquire all of privately held Printelligent's assets...

From PC World: As its competition announced new models that shoot squarely at the heart of Amazon's Kindle e-reader business, Amazon responded by quietly unleashing a 3G variant of its Kindle With Special Offers. Like the Wi-Fi-only Kindle With Special Offers, this model shaves $25...

From CNET News.com: Apple this afternoon posted instructions for removing MacDefender, the rogue antivirus software that targets Mac OS X users. Additionally the company has said it will be updating its Mac OS to automatically find and remove the software.

Apple support article...

From DailyTech: It's almost unprecedented. We haven't seen something quite like this, since -- well, the days of the great Sony Corp. (6758) battery recall. It seems like every day there's a new Sony web property that's been compromised.

In recent weeks the company's two largest...

From DailyTech:
Google may unveil its near-field-communications (NFC) mobile-payment system in New York as soon as tomorrow, Bloomberg reports.

Back in March, Google was expected to begin testing its mobile-payment system, which allows select Android users to ring up purchases with...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group plans to showcase a number of brand-new solid-state storage solutions at the upcoming Computex Taipei 2011 trade-show in early June. One of the leading makers of solid-state drives (SSDs) intends to demonstrate its first hybrid storage device...

From X-bit Labs: Chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. said that the company's next-generation Windows operating system would be released in 2012, which is ahead of publicly known schedule, which is officially kept confidential.

"We are obviously hard at work on the next...