From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. this week announced the release of Nvidia Parallel Nsight software, the industry's first development environment for graphics processing unit (GPU) -accelerated applications that work with Microsoft Visual Studio. The company has also released CUDA...

From X-bit Labs: Dell on Thursday said that it had reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) resolving the previously-disclosed SEC investigation into Dell’s disclosures and alleged omissions prior to fiscal 2008 regarding certain aspects of its...

From InfoWorld: Every new IBM mainframe says something about the times we live in, and today's latest mainframe release is no different. The zEnterprise system, as it is now called, has become a cross-platform management system, a sovereign of other systems.

IBM has given its new...

From PC World: Nokia reported flat sales for the second quarter, with a 40 percent year-on-year drop in earnings. The company is still seeing customers shun its high-end smartphones.

Sales for the quarter totalled €10 billion (US$12.21 billion as of June 30, the last day of the...

From CNET News.com: The Federal Trade Commission has extended by two weeks its deadline for reaching a settlement with Intel.

The FTC said Wednesday that the extension "allows the Commission more time to consider a proposed settlement." The original order was issued on June 21 and...

From CNET News.com: We still don't know when AT&T's exclusive contract with Apple will expire, but that doesn't stop the continued rumors of the iPhone expanding to new carriers in the United States.

Usually it's Verizon Wireless that we hear is close to signing up to service the...

From X-bit Labs: ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have announced a long-term agreement that provides TSMC with access to a broad range of ARM processors and enables the development of ARM physical IP across TSMC technology nodes. This agreement supports the...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital has maintained its lead on the market of hard disk drives (HDDs) in the most recent quarter and outsold its arch-rival Seagate by 2.9 million HDDs. Nonetheless, revenues of Seagate are still substantially higher compared to WD thanks to better sales...

From DailyTech: Google launched its branded smartphone in January of 2010 and it quickly became “the” Android device to beat. The Nexus One came out the gates with guns blazing courtesy of a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 480x800 AMOLED display, and Android 2.1.

However, it's now time...

From DailyTech: Facebook today confirmed the popular social networking site now has more than 500 million active users, and continues to gain an impressive number of new users.

"This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world," Facebook...