From ComputerWorld: Intel this week revealed plans to create an upgraded USB Type-C connector that would enable audio input and output, potentially replacing the long-standard 3.5 millimeter headphone jack used in today's electronic devices.

Intel, which revealed its plans during a lecture at its...

From ComputerWorld: HTC on Tuesday announced it will lead a $100 million virtual reality accelerator fund to cultivate the VR ecosystem by supporting startups.

The move could be another boost to the development of enterprise applications and uses for VR, analysts said. VR is already being used in...

From InfoWorld: IBM is expanding its flash storage lineup to power cloud data centers that carry out so-called cognitive computing.

The company's newest FlashSystem arrays, introduced Wednesday, combine its fast and relatively affordable FlashCore technology with a scale-out architecture designed...

From PC World: Nintendo's new gaming platform, codenamed NX, will be launched worldwide in March next year, the company said Wednesday without providing any further information on the new console that has been shrouded in secrecy.

"For our dedicated video game platform, Nintendo is currently...

From CNET: Apple on Tuesday reported its first-ever drop in iPhone sales, with fiscal second-quarter unit shipments down 16 percent to 51.2 million. That's lower than the 61.1 million the company sold the same time last year, though it is in line with the 51 million analysts expected Apple to sell...

From PC World: AMD's Radeon Pro Duo is here. On Tuesday morning, the company formally unwrapped its much-anticipated and highly delayed dual-GPU card, giving it—at least for now—the fastest graphics card on the planet.

With an asking price of $1,500—making it the most expensive modern consumer...

From ComputerWorld: Nokia is paying 170 million euros ($191 million) to acquire French fitness gadgets company Withings in a bid to get into the digital health market.

For the Espoo, Finland company, which sold its handset business to Microsoft two years ago, and has been since mainly in the area...

From InfoWorld: Dropbox has a futuristic vision for how its users will be able to share massive files and have quick access to them on their computers, without their hard drives overflowing.

The cloud storage company announced a new initiative at its Open conference in London on Tuesday called...

From CNET: T-Mobile ended another quarter sweeping in a hefty number of subscribers -- and it logged a profit to boot.

For the first quarter of 2016, the company added a net total of 2.2 million customers, the sixth time in the past seven quarters its net additions surpassed 2 million subscribers...

From PC World: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is out, and Mozilla is renewing its partnership with Canonical. Mozilla will soon begin offering the latest versions of Firefox directly to Ubuntu users as a Snap package, changing the way software installation has traditionally worked on Linux.

Mozilla announced...