From X-bit Labs: While Nvidia Corp. has been talking about incredible performance of its second-generation Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) for several months now, since there are no devices powered by Tegra 2, the actual performance of the SoC is still not quite clear. The chief executive...

From PC World: Acer offered a preview of its upcoming Stream smartphone at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.

The Stream has a unique screen layout, using its status bar as a divider between application icons at the bottom of the screen and application history at the top...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. plans to price its Natal motion sensor for Xbox 360 game console at $149 and also sell it bundled with Xbox 360 Arcade version, according to a media report. In spite of relatively high price, the software giant reportedly intends to sell millions of...

From CNET News.com: Photoshop users like to expand what the software can do by downloading new brushes, gradients, and color swatches, but the ability to make those additions also turns out to have been a potential avenue for attack.

Adobe Systems on Wednesday released a Photoshop...

From DailyTech: One of the things that has set the PS3 and the Xbox 360 apart since the console launched has been that PS3 owners don’t have to buy a subscription to access content and play online games on their consoles. Xbox 360 owners, on the other hand, have to buy monthly or...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday unveiled its second chip that belongs to Fermi generation of graphics processing units (GPUs) and also unveiled its first DirectX 11 chip for mobile computers. But while the GeForce GTX 480M is positioned as the top-of-the-range mobile...

From PC World: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an antitrust investigation into Apple's digital music business, according to several reports Tuesday that cited unnamed sources.

The probe is in the early stages, the New York Times said in a story published on its Web...

From DailyTech: Apple has been the topic of discussion with regards to the Foxconn suicides, which seem to be happening quite frequently. Foxconn manufacturers the iMac, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad for Apple. Nine workers have committed suicide in the past year (four in the past...

From CRN: Facebook today is expected to reveal new, simplified privacy settings to its nearly 500 million users. The company has planned a conference call with reporters for 1:30 p.m. eastern to highlight some of the changes, several reports indicate.

The concern over Facebook's...

From InfoWorld: Google has released a Web browser add-on that will stop the browser from sending information to the Google Analytics service, which Websites can use to collect data about their visitors.

Google said it developed the tool "to provide Website visitors with more choice...