From PC World: Microsoft may begin collecting royalties again for licensing some protocols because clear technical documentation is now available, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday.

The change comes after the DOJ issued its latest joint status report regarding its...

From CNET News.com: Mozilla Messaging pushed the stable release of Thunderbird 3 out of the nest on Tuesday, and there's a lot to like in case you haven't been following the beta development of this Outlook alternative. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the long-overdue...

From CNET News.com: Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, an important step in bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence.

"Our goal is to have a release candidate next week," said Jay...

From DailyTech: Seagate is the largest hard disk drive manufacturer in the world. They have started to enter the SSD market, but most of their sales are still focused on the desktop and enterprise markets.

The company is growing market share in the mobile sector, thanks in part to...

From DailyTech: Research In Motion (RIM) has solidified efforts to gain a foothold in mainland China, recently agreeing to a deal with a Hong Kong IT company, as it attempts to crack into a market that has more than 600 million potential customers.

The company has teamed up with...

From X-bit Labs: Kodak, one of the pioneers of OLED technology, on Monday said that it would sell substantially all the assets associated with its OLED business to a group of LG Electronics companies, a company that only relatively recently started to see value in the new type of...

From X-bit Labs: Amid the lack of any official and revealing information about its next-generation flagship GeForce “Fermi” GF100 graphics card for desktops, Nvidia Corp. continues to publish static pictures of the novelty in order to attract attention to its future product.

On...

From InfoWorld: Although Intel delayed its first stand-alone graphics processor, code-named Larrabee, the company could use elements of the chip's design and architecture in future products, analysts said on Monday.

Intel on Friday delayed the commercial release of Larrabee, which...

From PC World: Google announced several interesting things at its press event today, including Google Googles, a vision-assisted search app for Android phones that lets you snap a photo of a real-world item, then get information about it. But the big news turned out to be Google Real...

From CNET News.com: Intel will focus on next-generation laptop technology that combines graphics functions with the main processor, in the wake of the cancellation of its initial "Larrabee" graphics processor.

Despite the market-rattling news from Intel late on Friday--which pushed...