From CNET News.com: Facebook's and AOL's instant-messaging systems now can link together. It's a step forward--but one that also shows how backward Net communications are today.

"AIM has teamed up with Facebook, and now you can chat with your Facebook friends--right from AIM!"...

From DailyTech: For a while now, NVIDIA has been offering a graphics technology that allowed the user to change between a discrete GPU and an integrated GPU in their notebook computer. The user had to initiate the change when they wanted to use either GPU and many users simply never...

From DailyTech: ATI, the graphics division of AMD, launched the lowest priced DirectX 11 video card last week. The Radeon HD 5450 using the Cedar chip can be purchased starting at $50, while the Radeon HD 5670 using the Redwood XT chip starts just below $100.

Most of ATI sales by...

From DailyTech: Somewhere Mark Zuckerberg must be angrily screaming, because Google just stepped all over his company's toes. Google, ever expanding its web arsenal which has helped make it the world's largest search provider and the largest internet company, has unveiled a new...

From DailyTech: For a while now, NVIDIA has been offering a graphics technology that allowed the user to change between a discrete GPU and an integrated GPU in their notebook computer. The user had to initiate the change when they wanted to use either GPU and many users simply never...

From DailyTech: Solid state drives might be all the rage right now, but traditional magnetic-based storage still rules the roost. Many corporations are moving to a tiered storage approach utilizing SSDs, but they still require massive capacities at a relatively economical price...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft fixed 26 vulnerabilities in 13 security bulletins as part of its Patch Tuesday, including critical ones for Windows that could be exploited to take control of a computer and one that has resided in the 32-bit Windows kernel since its release 17 years ago...

From X-bit Labs: The talks about graphics processors powering servers have been around for the last three years, but so far only a number of special-purpose supercomputers take advantage of graphics processing units (GPUs) and their extreme amount of cores. But in two years time the...

From X-bit Labs: After several months of delays, Barnes & Noble on Monday announced availability of its highly-anticipated Nook electronic book reader. Starting the 10th of February, Nook devices will be available in B&N online and retail stores.

“We are excited to announce that...

From InfoWorld: South Korea's two biggest cell phone makers previewed on Tuesday handsets they plan to unveil at next week's Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona.

Both phones feature full-screen touch panels on their face, Wi-Fi and close links with social networking...