From DailyTech: Windows 7 is the hottest operating system of the holiday season. It has seen significant traction, besting Windows Vista by as much as 234 percent in initial sales. One key factor that contributed to this success was the plethora of deals offered. From Windows...

From X-bit Labs: Yahoo! and Microsoft have announced that the two have finalized an advertising and search deal that will have Bing power Yahoo's search results and Yahoo! provide search-advertising services for both companies.

Microsoft and Yahoo! first announced the 10-year-long...

From InfoWorld: Arm and Qualcomm led a group of investors that have invested nearly $10 million in chip interconnect startup Arteris, the companies said Monday.

Arteris' main product is an on-chip interconnect called Network on Chip used to link components of complex chips, called...

From PC World: Celebrating 'necromorphic' alien dismemberment with verve, Visceral Games today announced Dead Space 2, sequel to last year's space-based survival horror game about slicing renegades from John Carpenter's The Thing into giblets.

As Isaac ("Asimov Arthur C.") Clarke...

From CNET News.com: AppJet, the company behind the EtherPad collaborative online editor that was acquired by Google on Friday, said the service won't be closed down as originally announced.

Instead, it will be maintain until it is open-sourced.

The original plan was to delete...

From CNET News.com: Apple has acquired struggling streaming music service Lala, an Apple spokesman told CNET News on Sunday.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed the acquisition but did not disclose the terms of the deal or what the company intends to do with the 4-year-old Lala...

From DailyTech: Intel Corporation may make some of the best CPUs out there, but it has had limited success in making GPUs. It is the largest supplier of computer graphics thanks to its integrated chipsets, but performance has always been a big problem. It introduced the i740 discrete...

Ingenuity and great designs have revolutionized the world. Time and time again -- from the very first computer, to the first tanks that were rolled out during the First World War. Speaking of tanks, one of the most famous tanks of the Second World War was the German built Panzer IV...

When we reviewed the original Thermaltake BlacX back in April 2008, we commended Thermaltake for marketing such an innovative and convenient product, but we complained about its lack of essential features such as eSATA. The idea of allowing users to quickly swap internal hard drives...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has revamped the browser ballot screen demanded by European Union antitrust regulators and may get final approval as early as Dec. 15, a source familiar with the case told Computerworld today.

As first reported Thursday by the Bloomberg news service...