From CNET News.com: Like all parents, Microsoft likes to tout the accomplishments of its offspring. Any conversation about Hotmail is likely to start with the fact that, at least globally, the free Web mail service has more active accounts than any of its rivals.

Pressed, though...

From DailyTech: When Apple demoed the iPad to its corporate contacts in the publishing world, they were thrilled. Unlike e-book readers before it, the iPad had a large LCD screen, capable of displaying a book or magazine in glorious color.

Many publishers jumped at the opportunity...

From DailyTech: The final piece to Apple's notebook puzzle is now in place. The company today officially unveiled a slightly revamped entry-level MacBook (the update was actually leaked over the weekend).

The latest polycarbonate white MacBook now features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo...

From X-bit Labs: The recent surge of demand towards high-speed mobile data transfer has opened the doors for a plethora of new technologies, services, types of devices and other products that satisfy the need. The WiMAX technology has been around for several years now, but the year...

From InfoWorld: Apple officials told police investigators that the publication of photos of an iPhone prototype were "immensely damaging" to the company and represented a "huge" loss, recently released court documents show.

Those documents, released Friday by a San Mateo, Calif...

From PC World: Foxconn is to manufacture 24 million units of Apple's next-gen iPhone in 2010, reports this morning claim.

Further, the device will sport new LCD displays which should make the handheld device much better for reading iBooks.

Apple appears set for a June introduction...

From CNET News.com: Hewlett-Packard landed Palm by raising its bid following interest from other suitors after intellectual property and a potential licensing arrangement for the WebOS.

The proxy statement, which sparked a good bit of discussion, provides an interesting read on how...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft will pay VirnetX Holding $200 million to settle a patent dispute over VPN technology in Windows, the companies announced Monday.

As part of the settlement, Microsoft will also obtain a license to use VirnetX technology in Microsoft products.

VirnetX...

From DailyTech: In February 2005, three former PayPal employees -- Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim – founded a video sharing site called YouTube. At the time, there were a handful of video sharing sites, but none had proved particularly successful. YouTube, however, proved a...

From DailyTech: Piracy is one of those subjects that raise strong arguments on both sides of the issue. The major film and music studios along with major software companies claim they lose millions to piracy each year. At the same time, the legal campaigns and lawsuits brought...