From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp., according to a media report, plans to refresh nearly the whole lineup of its graphics processors by back-to-school season. The new line will reportedly include GF104, GF106 and GF108 graphics processing units, which support DirectX 11 along with other...

From X-bit Labs: ARM Holdings, a developer of low-power microprocessor architectures, blamed the lack of Adobe Flash support by ARM processors for postpones of smartbook computers. In addition, a vice president of ARM indicated that unexpected popularity of slate-type systems also...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system.

Microsoft said at its MIX developer conference...

From PC World: When a piece of software is automatically installed on your computer without your knowledge, it's called malware. But what do you call it when Facebook apps are added to your profile without your knowledge? We discovered Wednesday that this is actually happening, and...

From CNET News.com: Web browsing and e-mailing from Mozilla got a bit of a bump forward on Wednesday, as the company updated its beta test builds of Firefox 3.6.4 and Thunderbird 3.1, respectively code-named Lorentz and Lanikai.

Firefox 3.6.4 beta 3, for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and...

From CNET News.com: Google spent more than $250 million on a total of 10 acquisitions during the first quarter of the year, putting it on quite a pace for 2010.

Most of the individual companies that Google buys are pretty small, and sell for prices low enough that Google doesn't...

From DailyTech: In late February, Corsair launched two new SSD product lines aimed at the mainstream market. The Reactor Series features a "reboot" of JMicron's SSD controller while the Nova Series features the much-lauded Indilinx Barefoot controller.

When it launched, the Nova...

From DailyTech: The 4G battle is brewing in the U.S. and while there are currently two competing technologies including WiMAX and LTE being used, most only expect LTE to survive the battle. Everyone but Sprint and Clearwire are backing LTE and Clearwire has cleared the way to move to...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. along with its partners Appro and Supermicro on Tuesday said they had initiated shipments of servers designed for high-performance computing featuring the new generation of Tesla computing boards featuring Tesla T20 processors. The new chips offer very...

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard introduced seven laptops with Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming laptop chips on Wednesday, boosting efforts for the chip designer's efforts to catch up with rival Intel.

The new AMD-based ProBook laptops are up to 69 percent faster and offer up to 72...