From CNET News.com: A Paris court earlier this week ordered Google France and its parent company Google to pay plaintiff Bottin Cartographes 500,000 euros (about $660,000) for providing its free mapping services to businesses across the country. The court also required Google to pay...

From DailyTech: Massive flooding ravaged Thailand late last year. The problem for storage vendors such as Seagate and Western Digital was that much of the hard drive production that supplies the computer technology world is done in Thailand. The flooding meant many employees were...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) announced the original iPad in January 2010, and it hit the market in April 2010. The polished device was undeniably a game-changing product that turned an often-overlooked niche (tablets) into a booming market. It was about this time last year...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has begun shipments of Atom-based system-on-chip for so-called micro-servers. The new processor will likely become available this year and will enable server manufacturers to create ultra-dense machines with low power consumption.

As reported previously...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to secure its mission-critical HP-UX platform, Hewlett-Packard has paid Intel Corp. around $690 to keep Itanium microprocessor alive till 2017 and update it in timely manner, court findings reveal.

Back in 2008 the maker of servers paid Intel $440 million...

From PC World: For PC users more interested in the practical side of Microsoft's Kinect, a Windows version is now available for $250.

Microsoft is also launching the Kinect for Windows commercial software development kit today. An SDK was previously available for academics and...

From CNET News.com: The decade-old OS has slowly been losing more users to Windows 7, but January marked a small resurgence in its grip on the market, according to stats out today from NetApplications.

For the month, Windows XP grabbed 47.19 percent of all OS users, inching up from...

From DailyTech: Nikon has tossed a load of new cameras on the market today. The first of the new cameras is the L810 that sports a 16.1-megapixel CCD image sensor and has a massive 26x optical zoom lens. That gives the camera and broad range of 22.5 to 585 mm giving the camera a wide...

From DailyTech: Amazon released its fourth-quarter earnings from 2011 today, showing off its massive holiday success with e-readers and its Kindle Fire tablet, yet still missing previous estimates.

Amazon reported a 35 percent increase in net sales from $12.95 billion in Q4 2010 to...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to further improve its competitive positions on the market of high-end graphics cards, Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday began selling a cut-down version of its high-end code-named Tahiti graphics chip. The new Radeon HD 7950 promises slightly better...