From X-bit Labs: Amazon.com and BestBuy have started to take pre-orders on Sony PlayStation Vita portable video game system, which automatically reveals launch dates of PS Vita in Canada and the United States.

Amazon is accepting pre-orders onto Wi-Fi and 3G/Wi-Fi versions of...

From PC World: Can Google+ attract enough users in a year to become more popular in the US than either Twitter or LinkedIn? A new Bloomberg-YouGov survey says yes.

The online survey of 1,003 US adults interviewed from July 29 to August 2, 2011 suggests Google+ is following in...

From CNET News.com: Vizio has launched its 8-inch tablet at a price that could make it a key player in the Android tablet space.

Customers looking to get their hands on the device can head over to Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, Costco, and Amazon, among other retailers, and pick up the...

From DailyTech: Intel first talked about Ultrabooks in May of this year and hopes that large numbers of the machines will be shipped through its partners like ASUS, Acer, and HP among others. So far, no Ultrabooks have hit the market, but they are coming. Intel originally promised...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology, one of the world's largest maker of hard drives, has unveiled the GoFlex Turbo performance drive with SafetyNet data recovery services (DRS). SafetyNet data recovery is the first recovery service offering by a hard drive manufacturer to be...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has quietly started to sell its own-brand Radeon memory modules for systems powered by its accelerated processing units (APUs) and central processing units (CPUs). The reasons why AMD decided to enter the market of memory modules are not...

From PC World: A lightning strike in Dublin on Sunday caused a power failure in data centers belonging to Amazon and Microsoft, causing the companies' cloud services to go offline.

Lightning struck a transformer, sparking an explosion and fire which caused the power outage at 10:41...

From CNET News.com: Apple has been sued for the Mac OS X startup process.

Operating Systems Solutions, a Florida company, recently sued Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleging that the Mac maker's desktop operating system violates a patent it...

From CNET News.com: After 45,000 Verizon workers walked off the job this weekend, Chief Executive Lowell McAdam issued a letter today to management justifying the need to extract better contract terms, saying that the company must make "additional hard decisions" to keep the cost of...

From DailyTech: As promised, AT&T, Inc. (T) has begun to crack down on those who tether illegally on unlimited plans. But some customers hope that new apps may hide them from the company's purge.

The issue began last June when AT&T scrapped its $30 USD/month unlimited smartphone...