From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has disclosed its process technology roadmap and revealed that it would use so-called half-node process technologies for its low-power accelerated processing units (APUs). While the company admitted that going forward it is obliged to move a...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has had major issues with the 32nm silicon-on-insulator process technology. As a result of those problems, the yields of the company's code-named Llano accelerated processing units (APUs) were so low that the company had to delay them by many...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft on Tuesday revealed four vulnerabilities in the Mac version of its Office suite, but then failed to produce patches for the 2004 and 2008 editions.

Office for Mac 2011, which launched Oct. 26, was the only version updated as part of Microsoft's monthly...

From PC World: Smartphone sales for the third quarter almost doubled compared to last year, driven by explosive growth in sales of Android phones, although Symbian remained the best-selling operating system. Sales of Apple's iPhone also grew strongly, according to figures from...

From CNET News.com: The browser wars have extended to mobile devices, and that's good news for consumers.

Last week, Mozilla released a second Firefox beta for Android. Yesterday, Opera released its first Opera Mobile beta for Android. Neither is ready for prime time, much less used...

From CNET News.com: In an apparent move to stave off defections to competitors, Google announced it is giving all its employees a $1,000 cash bonus and a raise of 10 percent, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The raises, which take affect January 1, 2011, apply to all...

From DailyTech: EWeek is reporting that reports of first-day Windows Phone 7 sales have run the gamut of lackluster to impressive, depending on whom you ask.

The Seattle Times deemed the new mobile OS from Microsoft a "ringing success." An AT&T spokeswoman told the news outlet: "We...

From DailyTech: In the lead-up to the release of Android 2.3, a number of users of Google's mobile OS are experiencing a major issue that prevents them from installing or uninstalling applications from the Android market on their handsets, EWeek reports.

More than 200 people have...

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, on Tuesday quietly announced that it would delay the roll-out of the company's next-generation flagship graphics product powered by two code-named Cayman chips. From the fourth quarter of this year, the new...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said on Tuesday that it started to ship the first application processing units (APUs) code-named Ontario and Zacate for revenue earlier today. The chips that combine low-power x86 cores as well as DirectX 11-class graphics processing engine...