From X-bit Labs: Worldwide PC shipments totaled 76.3 million units in the first quarter of 2013 (Q1 2013), down -13.9% compared to the same quarter in 2012 and worse than the forecast decline of -7.7%, according to the International Data Corp. The extent of the year-on-year...

From X-bit Labs: Although Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 8 operating system has much in common with fully-fledged Windows 8, unlike the PC OS it remains an extremely closed platform that does not allow any considerable hardware customization of smartphones on its base. As it appears...

From CNET News.com: Samsung has unveiled two new smartphones that push the envelope of screen size in the smartphone space.

Dubbed Mega, the two devices Samsung showed off today come with the customer's choice of a 5.8-inch screen or a 6.3-inch option. Both devices come with Android...

From DailyTech: Each year Gawker Media's The Consumerist site doles out a dubious distinction to one dastardly corporation -- the title of "Worst Company In America". Last year pro-digital rights management Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA) beat out bailout whipping-boy Bank of America...

From DailyTech: Samsung has announced a new notebook computer running Windows 8 that will be coming to the United States soon.

The notebook is officially called the ATIV Book 6, features a Core i7 processor and has a 15.6-inch screen (1080p resolution). The machine will also feature...

From X-bit Labs: John Gustafson, chief product architect at graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices and a renowned industry veteran, praises the heterogeneous system architecture of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 as well as its ultra-fast unified memory sub-system. In addition...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading maker of solid-state drives for PCs and enterprises, is reportedly working on Vertex 5 solid-state drives that will be powered by Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller as well as inexpensive NAND flash memory. The new drives are projected to...

From CNET News.com: Intel discussed the next-generation "Bay Trail" tablet processor today at its annual conference in Beijing. Expect to see a new crop of faster yet still power-efficient Windows 8 -- and likely Windows 8.1 -- tablets later this year.

An "entirely new Atom...

From DailyTech: With Google Inc.'s (GOOG) new "Pixel" Chromebooks beating Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) premium laptops in the pixels-per-inch (ppi) arms race, Apple is reportedly pondering releasing 4K Thunderbolt 2 displays for sometime in 2014. 4K (typically referring to 3840x2160 pixel...

From DailyTech: Just as Google was on the verge of escaping one investigation with European regulators, it may be caught in yet another -- but this time, regarding its Android operating system.

Fairsearch Europe -- a group of Google competitors including Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle...