From DailyTech: Americans prefer socializing on Facebook to searching for information on Google or looking up videos on YouTube. For the first time since its inception, Facebook beat out Google for a full week as the most visited site in the U.S. That is the word from online...

From X-bit Labs: Leslie Sobon, a vice president of Advanced Micro Devices, said that the company had no immediate plans to target the market of slate-type computers. Earlier Ms. Sobon said hybrid chips that feature both x86 and graphics engines would revolutionize tablets.

"I think...

From X-bit Labs: A high-ranking official for Advanced Micro Devices said that the company would initiate mass shipments of its code-named Llano products in the first half of next year. Partners of AMD would start sales of systems featuring Llano - the hybrid processor that features...

From InfoWorld: The exploit for a critical unpatched bug in Adobe Reader that's now circulating is "clever" and "impressive," security researchers said this week.

First uncovered on Tuesday by Washington-based researcher Mila Parkour, attackers are using rigged PDF documents that...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft apologized to customers of its hosted software services for businesses after at least three outages over the past few weeks.

"We aspire to deliver quality services, and in the last couple of weeks, we have fallen short of this aspiration," wrote Morgan Cole...

From PC World: Nokia has named Stephen Elop, former president of Microsoft's business software group, to become its new CEO effective from later this month.

Elop will replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo in the top job on Sept. 21. Kallasvuo loses his board seat with immediate effect and...

From CNET News.com: In the wake of loosened Apple restrictions, Adobe Systems has restarted work on a tool called Packager for iPhone that lets developers make native iOS apps out of Flash programs.

"We will now resume development work on this feature for future releases," Adobe...

From DailyTech: Acer is fast gaining ground in the personal computer market thanks to its best-selling Acer Aspire One netbook. In July of 2010, Acer ousted Dell from the second place spot in the global computer shipment rankings dropping Dell in third place. However, Dell has...

From X-bit Labs: After several quarters of growth both in terms of volumes and prices, the market of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may face oversupply of memory later this year, according to Samsung Electronics, the largest maker of DRAM in the world. The oversupply typically...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has confirmed the evident price drop on the GeForce GTX 460 768MB graphics card. The board, which manufacturer suggested retail price at launch several weeks ago was $199 can now be obtained for $179 or even $169 in several online stores in the U.S. The...