From X-bit Labs: Gigabyte Technology, one of the world’s leading mainboard makers on the planet, on Tuesday unveiled its new P55A family of mainboards that feature rather exclusive capabilities, including USB 3.0, Serial ATA-600 as well as boosted power for demanding USB devices...

From InfoWorld: Amazon is lowering the price of its Web-based virtual servers and has bolstered its cloud services with a new relational database and a set of high-memory virtual server instances.

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) offers customers a variety of virtual server...

From PC World: The official newspaper of China's ruling communist party has accused Google of seeking "malicious revenge" after a malware warning appeared by one of its Web sites in Google's search results.

The Google notice, which said the books section of the People's Daily site...

From CNET News.com: As Verizon Wireless prepares to unveil its new Motorola Droid smartphone tomorrow, Google today released the SDK for the much-anticipated 2.0 update to the operating system. Code-named Eclair, Android 2.0 offers a number of feature improvements and interface...

From CNET News.com: The former CEO and chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, Hector Ruiz, has been linked to the Galleon insider-trading case, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

This revelation comes after an unnamed executive at AMD was cited repeatedly in...

From DailyTech: Lenovo has unveiled a new line of computers that all run the new Windows 7 OS. The machines slot into Lenovo's line of IdeaPad laptops and IdeaCenter desktop systems. The new line includes the U150, U550, and Y550P IdeaPads; and the B500, K300, and H230 IdeaCenter...

From DailyTech: It seems as though Intel just can't catch a break with its new X-25M G2 solid state drives (SSDs). Shortly after launching the drives in late July, Intel had to suspend shipments of the drives due to a data corruption problem. A firmware update was issued to correct...

From DailyTech: Google Voice has been a rather controversial service since it debuted. The service allows a user to give out one phone number for their office, mobile, and landline phones to users and get the calls on whatever device they are using. The big catch to the service so...

From CNET News.com: Apple is reportedly shopping its rumored tablet to media companies in Australia to gauge interest in having their products available on the device when its released, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. While specifications of the device were reportedly sent...

From CNET News.com: Cisco Systems said Tuesday it plans to buy privately held Web-based security software company ScanSafe for about $183 million.

The all-cash deal, which also includes retention-based incentives, is expected to close in Cisco's fiscal second quarter, which ends in...