From DailyTech: Google started out as a search engine that was the new kid on the block fighting against the big firms like Yahoo for a piece of the market. As time went by, Google became the most popular search engine online in many countries including the U.S. and it runs the most...

From DailyTech: With Windows 7, Microsoft appears to finally have hit the sweet spot in terms of public reception. Now that it has put the painful Vista years behind it and found a formula that works, you would think it would stick to the newly proven formula that's earning it...

From X-bit Labs: At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Advanced Micro Devices has disclosed peculiarities regarding its x86 microprocessors produced using 32nm silicon-on-insulator process technology with high-K metal gate (HKMG) technology. Apparently, AMD’s...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. plans to release its next-generation microprocessors based on the code-named Sandy Bridge micro-architecture in Q1 2011, sources familiar with Intel Corp.’s plans told X-bit labs. The initial processors based on the new micro-architecture will not aim at...

From InfoWorld: Micron Technology has agreed to acquire flash memory maker Numonyx, adding NOR flash chips -- a memory type commonly found in mobile phones and MP3 players -- to its product lineup and expanding its manufacturing capacity

The all-stock offer to acquire Numonyx is...

From PC World: Opera Software plans to demo a version of its Opera Mini browser for the iPhone at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona next week. Opera Mini will offer faster browsing than Apple's Safari, which ships on iPhones, Opera said Wednesday.

Internal testing shows...

From CNET News.com: On the same day that Warner Music Group reported lackluster earnings, the third largest recording company appears to have at least one thing to celebrate: dramatic new interest in its YouTube videos.

From December to January, the number of unique visitors to...

From CNET News.com: Facebook's and AOL's instant-messaging systems now can link together. It's a step forward--but one that also shows how backward Net communications are today.

"AIM has teamed up with Facebook, and now you can chat with your Facebook friends--right from AIM!"...

From DailyTech: For a while now, NVIDIA has been offering a graphics technology that allowed the user to change between a discrete GPU and an integrated GPU in their notebook computer. The user had to initiate the change when they wanted to use either GPU and many users simply never...

From DailyTech: ATI, the graphics division of AMD, launched the lowest priced DirectX 11 video card last week. The Radeon HD 5450 using the Cedar chip can be purchased starting at $50, while the Radeon HD 5670 using the Redwood XT chip starts just below $100.

Most of ATI sales by...