From InfoWorld: Mozilla late on Friday released the first beta of Firefox 3.6, a minor upgrade slated to wrap up later this year.

Delayed by over two weeks as developers closed out last-minute bugs, including one that pushed the release back by several days last week, the Firefox 3...

From InfoWorld: Windows 7's market share surged nearly 40 percent in the week following its release, according to Web measurement company Net Applications.

Overall, Windows continued to lose share globally, dropping 0.23 of a percentage point during October, while Apple's Mac OS X...

From PC World: Sony Ericsson's rumored Android-based Xperia handset is expected to launch on Tuesday, with a brand new user interface codenamed Rachel. As we wait for the device to launch, two YouTube videos about the device have surfaced in recent weeks. One is a promo for the new...

From CNET News.com: The internal similarities begin with performance: both devices are fast. The iPhone 3GS is already distinguished for its speed. And the Droid is quickly garnering similar accolades.

"The Droid makes a big leap in internal performance. Compared with its rather...

From DailyTech: The Obama administration has been more willing than previous administrations to implement open source technology, as the new WhiteHouse.gov content management software (CMS) system has been switched over to the open source Drupal.

Open source is already used by the U...

From DailyTech: Yahoo hopes to rebound in the coming years after multiple years of losing visitors, and plans to triple its operating profit by 2012, according to numerous media reports.

The company reportedly fixed some of its short-term problems -- but it should be interesting to...

From X-bit Labs: Apple said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it would defend itself against allegations made last week by Nokia Corp. The company stressed that it would respond to the world’s largest maker of mobile phones later.

“[Apple’s] response...

From InfoWorld: After releasing its largest-ever group of security patches two weeks ago, Microsoft has done a little cleaning up.

Over the past few days, the company has re-released two security updates and issued a work-around for a Windows CryptoAPI patch that caused Microsoft's...

From PC World: Starting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language, a major technical tweak to the Internet designed to increase language accessibility.

On Friday, the Internet's addressing authority approved a Fast...

From CNET News.com: Facebook was awarded $711 million in a judgment Thursday against self-described "spam king" Sanford Wallace.

Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California granted Facebook's application for a default judgment against Wallace...