From CNET News.com: Adobe today released a fix for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat and which reportedly has been exploited in attacks via Flash files embedded in Excel files distributed via e-mail.

The vulnerability, reported last week...

From DailyTech: When it comes to consumer products, it seems as though Apple is always on a quest to make each generation thinner and lighter than the previous. When Apple announced the iPad 2, it slimmed down to a thin 0.34 inches with weight coming in at just 1.33 pounds (Wi-Fi...

From DailyTech: AT&T is no stranger to gobbling up smaller wireless firms on its march to be the biggest wireless carrier in the United States. The company gobbled up Cingular and made all of those customers into AT&T users. The same is expected to happen with T-Mobile now that AT&T...

From X-bit Labs: One of the fields where Nokia Corp. is not presently presented at all is that tablet PC segment, which the company needs to address and better quickly as it falls behind Apple, HP/Palm, RIM and others. However, while the choice of operating system for smartphones has...

From X-bit Labs: Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of ultra mobility group (UMG), announced on Monday that he will be leaving Intel to pursue other interests. The decision seems to be rather surprising as the executive has been involved into multiple...

From InfoWorld: Last year, when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, it got a wealth of customers, technologies and personnel for its $7.4 billion. It also obtained one of the choicest domain names on the Internet, Sun.com.

Now that Oracle is actively decommissioning the site, it...

From PC World: Facebook plans to buy Snaptu, a four-year-old startup that develops versions of Web-based applications for cheaper mobile phones.

Snaptu, which was founded in 2007, said on its blog on Sunday that the acquisition should close within a few weeks.

Working as part of...

From CNET News.com: From a network and technology perspective, the $39 billion marriage between AT&T and T-Mobile USA is a no-brainer, but the companies may have to do some smooth talking to get the deal approved by regulators.

AT&T and T-Mobile USA, which is owned by German phone...

From CNET News.com: Adobe Systems has released version 10.2 of Flash Player for mobile devices, which addresses several shortcomings in the inaugural 10.1 incarnation.

Among the features in the new software, according to an Adobe blog post, are these:

• Integration with the browser...

From DailyTech: Both Intel and AMD are implementing so-called graphics-enabled microprocessors (GEMs) inside laptops and desktops on the mainstream markets this year.

Research firm iSuppli has announced that these GEMs will be installed in about 115 million notebooks that will ship...