From DailyTech: When Apple trademarked the term "App Store" nobody thought much of it. Smartphone applications at the time were a niche market either highly targeted at small groups of professionals, or were tools used by handset makers/carriers to sell their devices. In months...

From X-bit Labs: At the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC), Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated a Bullet Physics plug-in for Autodesk Maya 2011 software. The new plug-in is based on OpenCL industry standards and the open-source Bullet Physics engine.

AMD’s Bullet Physics plug-in for...

From X-bit Labs: Apple, a leading consumer electronics company, on Wednesday unveiled the second-generation iPad tablet. The new device got higher performance central processor, improved graphics, two cameras as well as support for high-definition video output. The iPad 2 also got...

From InfoWorld: Intel has provided further details about its Atom N570 chip and said netbooks with the processor will ship later this month.

The dual-core processor runs at 1.66GHz and includes 1MB of L2 cache. It draws 8.5 watts of power and supports DDR3 memory, Intel said in a...

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...