From DailyTech: Microsoft's "Ribbon" graphical user interface, first introduced with Office 2007, was a dramatic departure from its straightforward menus of yore. It offered users quicker access to more options and more visual cues. But for some, it also brought more distraction...

From DailyTech: Seagate has announced a new product today that it claims is the world's slimmest portable external HDD. The product is called the GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 Drive.

The drive sells for $99.99 and is only 9mm thick, which makes it 38% thinner than the current crop of GoFlex...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a new graphics card designed for mainstream market. The novelty is based on the code-named Barts LE chip, which is a cut-down flavour of the Radeon HD 6800-series graphics processing unit (GPU). AMD claims that its Radeon HD 6790...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Monday said that tablets powered by its Atom-based system-on-chip (SoC) code-named Oak Trail would become available next month. The slates powered by Atom Z670 chip will come from different manufacturers and will run Microsoft Windows 7 operating...

From InfoWorld: Hundreds of thousands -- and possibly millions -- of websites have been hit with a cyberattack that some are calling "one of the biggest mass-injection attacks we've ever seen."

The attack was discovered on March 29 by security firm WebSense, and the injected domain...

From PC World: The popular Angry Birds game franchise has struck gold again with its newest version called Angry Birds Rio . Game developers Rovio confirmed on Twitter the new mobile game reached 10 million downloads in 10 days of availability, breaking all records for the company so...

From CNET News.com: Vivendi announced today that it has agreed to acquire Vodafone's 44 percent stake in French mobile operator SFR for 7.95 billion euros ($11.3 billion).

The deal would give Vivendi, which already owned 56 percent of SFR shares, complete control of SFR--France's...

From CNET News.com: The tech blogosphere is abuzz this morning with news that Sony CEO Howard Stringer may have accidentally leaked word that Sony was supplying the camera sensor for the iPhone 5--and that delivery of that sensor has been delayed due to factory damage in Japan...

From DailyTech: Trojan malware not only affected some 260,000 Android users last month, it also highlighted the vulnerability of an open platform (which Wired covered in depth). The debacle has shed light on the implications of downloading apps from unknown sources.

A report from...

From DailyTech: The wait for iPhone users is finally over: an untethered jailbreak for iOS version 4.3.1 is now available from the iPhone Dev Team, almost three years to the day after the first version of PwnageTool was released for 1.1.4.

While the jailbreak, which comes from...