From DailyTech: Google, the world's largest internet firm, has long rolled out groundbreaking services – after these rollouts, it then then worried about sorting out the resulting legal implications in the aftermath. This was the case with Google Books. After Google began scanning...

From DailyTech: Most video cards shipping today come equipped with 1GB of graphics memory. This enables the GPU to access large amounts of fast memory on the video card without having to go through system memory. The amount of memory used in video cards has been growing rapidly in...

From InfoWorld: Red Hat is dropping support for Intel's Itanium processor in Enterprise Linux 6, the next major release of its operating system, the company said in a statement on Sunday.

Dropping support for Itanium makes economic sense for Red Hat, according to Chris Ingle...

From PC World: Square Enix's roleplaying spectacle-spinner Final Fantasy XIII sold over 1.5 million units in its first four days on store shelves, reports Japanese tracker Enterbrain. Not bad at all, considering the game's only available for the PlayStation 3 in Japan (the English...

From CNET News.com: Some customers who placed early orders for Barnes & Noble's Nook may not see their e-reader arrive in time for Christmas.

Barnes & Noble told some customers by e-mail Friday that though their shipment "has been slightly delayed," the company is aiming to get...

From CNET News.com: Just a few days after reporting that Google was about 80 percent likely to be acquiring business reviews site Yelp for a totally sweet $500 million, TechCrunch has backtracked. Late Sunday, TechCrunch reported that Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman personally walked away...

From DailyTech: Cable providers in America are making big money off subscribers and advertisers. The cable companies also have to pay the networks to be able to rebroadcast the programs they air to their network of subscribers. When it comes time to renegotiate these broadcasting...

From DailyTech: Netbooks have been one of the biggest technology stories over the last couple of years. The concept is simple: build a lightweight, compact, and affordable mobile computer that is just powerful enough to check for email and surf the internet. Intel enabled the...

Whether we like taking part in it or not, gaming is a huge part of the PC industry. So huge, in fact, that millions are spent each year for research and development into the latest games. And even more R&D is spent each year on improving hardware in a way that gaming experience is...

From PC World: Google's book search project suffered a legal setback in Paris on Friday, as a court ordered it to pay €300,000 (US$432,000) in damages for breach of copyright, and to stop distributing digital copies of French books to French Internet users without the permission of...