From X-bit Labs: Micron Technology on Wednesday introduced the highest-density serial peripheral interface (SPI) NOR memory 256Mb, 512Mb and 1Gb availability. These new devices join a complete line of SPI NOR flash memory that provides the advantage of increased performance with...

From X-bit Labs: AMD announced that its board of directors has appointed Rory P. Read, 49, president and chief executive officer of AMD. Mr. Read joins AMD from Lenovo Group, where he was most recently president and chief Operating officer responsible for leading day-to-day global...

From X-bit Labs: Timothy Cook, the new chief executive officer of Apple, addressed the company's employees by an e-mail. The morning after Steve Jobs announced his resignation as the chief exec, the new head of the company reassured his team that Apple will not change, it will remain...

From Tom's Hardware: Micron demonstrated a prototype of a possible future DRAM technology at the Hot Chips conference.

Called Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC), the technology represents a logic layer with a stack of memory chips that are vertically connected with through silicon vias (TSVs...

From CNET News.com: Pushing natural user interfaces one step farther, Google today added voice search to its mapping service.

It's an incremental addition to Google Voice Search that the Web search giant announced in June. But the newly announced feature allows users to speak their...

From InfoWorld: A German court has upheld a preliminary injunction requested by Apple, preventing Samsung Electronics from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet PC in Germany.

Apple claims the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is too similar to that of its iPad 2, the design of which is...

From CNET News.com: Yahoo Mail has hit the milestone of 100 million users and 500,000 Facebook fans around the same time Yahoo has kicked off some layout changes to its popular e-mail platform.

Spreading word of the new numbers in a blog posted Tuesday, Yahoo said that the 5,000...

From PC World: Samsung has announced four new Galaxy Android-based devices and revised the naming strategy for its whole phone lineup. The four new phones, the Galaxy W, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Y and Galaxy Y Pro, are the first to sport the new naming convention and all run on Android 2...

From CNET News.com: Hit by weakening sales, Research In Motion plans to add Android support to next year's lineup of new BlackBerry smartphones, Bloomberg reported yesterday.

Citing information from "three people familiar with the plan," Bloomberg said that the new Android...

From DailyTech: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an investigation against Google in 2009 regarding whether the search leader knowingly accepted pharmacy ads online that were illegal. But Google is now paying a hefty sum in order to settle these allegations...