Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One, meaning it will now cost users less -- $350 rather than $550 -- to cancel service on the smartphone. That matches Verizon Wireless's termination fee for smartphones, now tied with the Nexus One as the steepest  return fee in the industry.

After about a year of delays, Intel today took the wrappers off its high-end Itanium processor, code-named Tukwila.

U.S. IT employment increased by 12,900 jobs, or 0.3%, in January, one of the best month-to-month gains since the recession hit in late 2008, the TechServe Alliance reported today.

The positive news comes after the prolonged recession had reduced overall IT employment by some 200,000 jobs, according to the IT services industry group, which tracks monthly changes in IT hiring based on its own analysis of U.S. unemployment data.

Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc warned that fiscal 2011 earnings would miss Wall Street expectations as it grapples with a lack of blockbuster new games after a succession of missed targets and restructurings.

Reuters - With their paths through the Internet increasingly blocked by government filters, Nooshin and her fellow Iranian opposition-supporters say their information on planned protests now comes in emails.

AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.