From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday announced that it commenced a cash tender offer for up to $1 billion in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 5.75% convertible senior notes due 2012. AMD intends to finance the purchase of the notes tendered in the tender...

From InfoWorld: Processor makers ARM and MIPS Technologies are both aiming to simplify and accelerate the use of netbooks, MIDs (mobile Internet devices), set-top boxes, and picture frames that run on Google's Android software platform.

Earlier this week, ARM rolled out the Solution...

From PC World: After years of third-stringing it, Sony's beleaguered PS3 may finally be rallying, according to sales data cited on Sony's US PlayStation blog. The company's American division reports year-over-year October hardware sales lifted nearly 70 percent, and says its online...

From CNET News.com: AT&T has lost the first battle in a legal war against Verizon Wireless to force the company to stop showing advertisements that compare its 3G wireless network coverage with Verizon's coverage.

A federal judge in Atlanta on Wednesday declined to grant AT&T a...

From CNET News.com: Google is ready to launch an ambitious attempt to provide captions for videos on YouTube.

The company is holding an event in Washington D.C. Thursday to announce that it has developed a way to use the voicemail transcription technology in Google Voice to allow...

From DailyTech: Research In Motion Security Chief Scott Totzke recently said there is a chance smartphones could one day be hijacked and turned into rogue phones on a much larger scale than what is being discovered now.

Totzke, who is RIM's VP of BlackBerry Security, claims summer...

From DailyTech: The first of the netbooks to hit the market were underpowered when it came to decoding most video, especially if that video was in HD resolution. This left users frustrated with choppy video playback or the outright inability to play some videos.

NVIDIA stepped in...

From Tom's Hardware: The Microsoft Office 2010 beta leaked onto P2P networks earlier this week, but those of you who have been holding out for something a bit more official can safely download away.

Microsoft today revealed at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) the public...

From Tom's Hardware: When news came that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would come without dedicated servers for the PC version, gamers were upset and disappointed at the removal of one of the advantages of the PC platform.

Some PC gamers even decided to boycott the game. Of course...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. this week formally announced its next-generation Tesla solutions for high-performance computing markets based on code-named Fermi architecture. The company will only be able to start shipments of Tesla 20-series in the second quarter of next year, which...