PC World – Verizon is doubling-down on Android devices, according to reports, with a bevy of new devices headed to consumers soon based on the Google mobile operating system. New Android tablets and smartphones are on their way to Verizon, according to a scoop from BoyGeniusReport. The devices are said to come toward the end [...]

PC World – IBM made the latest in its long run of acquisitions on Tuesday, announcing the purchase of document capture software vendor Datacap. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Macworld.com – Codewave Software has updated its placeshifting iPhone app, MyTunesRSS, adding video playback controls, playlist shuffling, bug fixes, and more.

AP – Shares of Nuance Communications Inc. took a hit Tuesday after the speech-recognition and digital imaging software maker posted disappointing results for its fiscal third quarter and was downgraded by Goldman Sachs.

PC World – Pesky pedestrians can be removed from Google Street View with some experimental software developed by a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.

PC World – Researchers at Russian security company Kaspersky Lab say they’ve discovered the first malicious software program to target Google’s Android mobile operating system.

PC World – Net neutrality advocates claim Google and Verizon’s joint policy proposal for an „open Internet” will do more harm than good when it comes to keeping networks as open to all data. Critics claim the proposal is „worse than feared” and if adopted will result in users paying premium rates to access content [...]

Newsarama.com – At last year’s SpikeTV Video Game Awards, gaming fans, critics and journalists were wowed by a teaser trailer for a sequel to the popular „Batman: Arkham Asylum” game that itself wowed the industry after its 2009 release.

Mashable – According to various reports, Apple is in talks to buy Chinese game developer Handseeing Information Technology Co., a company that develops rich Internet applications for mobile multiplayer games. The company helped update the backend and user-facing features for the Tianya Online social network.

AP – Shares of Activision Blizzard Inc. slid in premarket trading Friday after the video game publisher reported second-quarter revenue and a third-quarter outlook below Wall Street’s expectations.