From InfoWorld: Microsoft has updated its bare-bones preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the last time, saying that the next release would be a beta build.

Although Microsoft hasn't named a release date for IE9's beta, the six-to-eight week stretch between each Platform Preview...

From PC World: While very few of you may be shedding tears over the demise of Google Wave, or even knew what it was, we probably haven't seen the last of this service. The search giant says the technology behind its ill-fated collaboration tool will live on in new products that have...

From CNET News.com: Logitech's G-Series gets three new member this month, by way of a new mouse, a new keyboard, and a new gaming headset. None of them is cheap. The most affordable product, the Gaming Mouse G700, coming in lowest at $99. On the other side of the price bracket, the...

From CNET News.com: Intel plans to offer a broad selection of silicon technologies for smartphones, as it seeks to grab a part of German chipmaker Infineon.

Intel is on a mission: the world's largest chipmaker is virtually absent in one of the hottest digital device markets. And...

From DailyTech: Blizzard-Activision's Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty -- the first in a trio of upcoming games -- launched last week. Long delays did little but build the anticipation for the title, which burned up sales charts. Even reports of minor bugs and GPU overheating issues...

From DailyTech: Earlier this week, market research firm Canalys reported that Google's Android OS is the top player in the U.S. smartphone market. Canalys' research indicated that Android OS commands 34 percent of the market, while RIM and Apple trail behind at 32 percent and 21.7...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has no short-term plans to manufacture Intel Atom-based system-on-chips (SoCs) at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's capacities. Even though Intel itself if preparing a number of SoCs that it will make on its own fabs, it looks like the company...

From X-bit Labs: When Nvidia Corp. unveiled its Fermi architecture first in September, 2009, the firm said that the top-of-the-range offering will include 512 stream processors. However, it released no actual products on the fully-fledged chip. On Wednesday a web-site published a...

From InfoWorld: A pact announced last year for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to go to work putting Intel Atom microprocessors into smartphones, mobile Internet devices, and other gadgets looks to remain on hold for a while.

The agreement between the two companies was...

From PC World: Acer, one of the world's top three PC vendors, reported a decline in revenue in the second quarter compared to the first quarter as the value of the euro fell.

The company's preliminary results for the second quarter showed revenue rose 26 percent year-on-year to NT...