From DailyTech: We reported early last month that a public beta of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was on the way. Microsoft has stuck to that timetable and the public beta can now be downloaded.

"As Gavriella Schuster and I have mentioned in previous blogs, SP1 for Windows 7 does...

From DailyTech: NVIDIA came very late to the DirectX 11 game due to many delays. By the time it arrived to market with its DirectX 11 solution, ATI had established quite the beachhead, unloading boatloads of Radeon 5000 series GPUs. However, even as AMD reportedly readies its 6000...

From Tom's Hardware: Nvidia's acquisition of Ageia in 2008 was a strategic move to boost the marketability of its GPU offerings. With the discontinuation of the dedicated PhyX boards, the acceleration moved to the GeForce GPU as a differentiation factor that set it apart from AMD's...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. reportedly intends to acquire wireless chip division of troubled Infineon. The move will enable Intel to integrate baseband capabilities into its system-on-chip (SoC) products and will also strengthen the company’s consumer networking technologies...

From InfoWorld: Comcast customers whose broadband service was slowed when the Internet service provider slowed peer-to-peer traffic will be able to get a payment of $16 under a class-action lawsuit settlement approved by a U.S. judge.

Judge Legrome Davis of the U.S. District Court...

From PC World: Nvidia on Monday introduced a graphics card priced at US$199 that will bring high-end gaming and Blu-ray 3D movie playback to desktops.

The GeForce GTX 460 is Nvidia's most inexpensive desktop graphics card based on the company's Fermi architecture, which provides...

From CNET News.com: Game developer Blizzard has backed down on a plan to require users of its official online forums to register with real names, just days after announcing the move.

The shift, announced Friday in a message posted to the company's forums, followed a firestorm of...

From CNET News.com: A lawsuit against Apple and AT&T over their exclusivity contract has been granted class action status, meaning it now includes anyone who bought an iPhone between June 29, 2007 and present day and signed up for AT&T service. (Court Filing PDF)

The heart of the...

From DailyTech: HTC has a string of hits on its hands when it comes to Android-based smartphones. The Droid Incredible, which was introduced back in early June, is still hard to come by due to component shortages and Verizon's website says that new stock won't come in until August 9...

From DailyTech: With the rise of memory hungry applications like browsers with rich web content, DirectX 11/OpenGL video games, and an ever expanding wealth of business software, the time for 64-bit software is obviously now. Some companies -- like Apple -- heeded the call early....