From CNET News.com: Microsoft's late 2011 Xbox Live update prompted users to flock to the online service last year, according to Microsoft.

In 2011, Xbox Live video viewing jumped 140 percent, compared to 2010, Microsoft's director of programming for Xbox Live Larry "Major Nelson"...

From CNET News.com: Three of the Internet's most popular destinations--Google, Wikipedia, and Craigslist--launched an audacious experiment in political activism this evening by urging their users to protest a pair of Hollywood-backed copyright laws.

Wikipedia's English-language...

From DailyTech: Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang officially resigned from Yahoo's Board of Directors and all other company-related positions today.

Yang co-founded Yahoo back in 1995 with David Filo. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since March 1995, and also served as...

From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer has decided to wed extreme performance of Intel's latest microprocessors and modern graphics cards with miniature mATX form-factor.

Although a lot of people nowadays prefer miniature systems, the loads of PC users also demand unbeatable performance...

From X-bit Labs: Struggling maker of smartphones Research in Motion is negotiating with other companies over licensing its software or selling the whole company to a new owner. Among the likely candidates to buy the maker of Blackberry devices are HTC as well as Samsung Electronics...

From PC World: Apple continues to hound Samsung Electronics at the district court in Düsseldorf, and has now filed another lawsuit aimed at 10 models in its Galaxy family of smartphones, according to Peter Schütz, spokesman at the court.

Apple again feels that Samsung's products...

From CNET News.com: The update to Ice Cream Sandwich is apparently leaving some owners of the Asus Transformer Prime out in the cold.

Released last Tuesday ahead of schedule to users in the U.S. and Taiwan, the update was supposed to deliver Android 4.0 over the air to Asus' Prime...

From DailyTech: We have been following Microsoft Surface for a long time now. Many geeks were excited when Surface 2.0 turned up and then went up for pre-sale. The price is certainly enough to make normal geeks cringe, but for corporations or places like hotels and convention centers...

From DailyTech: Today’s increasingly thin ultraportable laptops (e.g. Intel Corp.'s (INTC) beloved "Ultrabooks") tend to lack a discrete GPU powerful enough to do anything outside of low-to-mid range gaming and a bit of photoshopping. Want to do even basic 3D modeling? Want to play...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. is projected to release its highly-anticipated eight-core Intel Xeon microprocessors for dual-socket servers in March, 2012. The new chips will be based on Sandy Bridge-EP design with all cores activated and will be very competitive on both server as well...