From PC World: Mozilla on Tuesday fixed 11 security flaws in Firefox, following in rival Google's footsteps in patching its browser before a hacking contest kicks off next week.

Nine of the 11 flaws were rated "critical," a threat rating that implies hackers could use the...

From CNET News.com: Amazon.com has threatened to cut off more than 10,000 affiliates in California if state lawmakers pass legislation requiring the Internet retailer to collect sales tax from state residents.

Seattle-based Amazon said four bills introduced in the state legislature...

From CNET News.com: Questions about the Xoom's higher price vis-a-vis the iPad have been dogging Motorola as the world waits on the imminent iPad 2. IHS iSuppli has provided at least one answer: the underlying cost of the Xoom is higher due, in some cases, to higher-performance parts...

From DailyTech: T-Mobile's once trusty Sidekick is being put out to pasture – a bigger, stronger, faster device running Android will replace it.

The nation's fourth-largest carrier officially announced that on May 31 it would be discontinuing the Danger Service used by Sidekick...

From DailyTech: Apple's retail profits are soaring, but the company isn't completely satisfied with its performance. It's looking to move aggressively to try to beef up profits, and it's leveraging its Genius Bar to do that. Genius Bar is Apple's in-store service center, which...

From X-bit Labs: Power efficiency of relatively simplistic microprocessor cores, such as Intel Atom or ARM-based chips is well known and many believe that such central processing units (CPUs) can find their home in data center servers, which are supposed to become "green", in the...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, one of the leading suppliers of solid-state drives (SSDs), has announced a new series of SSDs with extreme performance and Serial ATA-600 interface. The new drives are based on the recently announced SandForce SF-2200 SSD controller and also...

From InfoWorld: Verizon is getting set to offer its customers unified communications services that can include presence information, instant messaging, videoconferencing, and fixed-mobile call handoffs through a Cisco Systems-based cloud infrastructure.

The carrier announced on...

From PC World: Google on Monday patched 19 vulnerabilities in Chrome, paying nine researchers $14,000 in bug bounties for reporting the flaws.

As it did last year, Google beefed up the security of its browser a week before the kickoff of Pwn2Own, the annual hacking contest held at...

From CNET News.com: Back in June 2010, Seagate shipped the first 3TB hard drive, the Barracuda XT, which was only available in external storage options, such as an external hard drive or the BlackArmor NAS servers. Today the company announced the first standalone version of the same...