From X-bit Labs: A year from now will mark the final milestone for Windows XP, the end of support for the operating system by Microsoft Corp. The longest-living OS from Microsoft will finally become obsolete exactly a year from now. Meanwhile, over one third of desktops and notebooks...

From X-bit Labs: HGST, a Western Digital company, has announced the industry’s first family of advanced enterprise-class solid-state drives with SAS-12Gb/s interface. The drives are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory and are designed for the most demanding applications...

From CNET News.com: WhatsApp, the maker of the popular mobile chat program, denied this evening that it is in talks to be acquired by Google for nearly $1 billion.

The two companies have been talking for "four or five weeks," according to a Digital Trends report last week that...

From DailyTech: Panasonic has pulled the wraps it latest Micro 4/3 camera: the DMC-GF6. The camera boasts 16-megapixel resolution Live MOS Sensor paired with the Venus Engine for image processing.

The ISO settings can be extended all the way up to 25,600, and the camera features a...

From DailyTech: When Google first started to experiment with fiber-optic internet service it put out proposals to have cities around the country vie for the opportunity to have service first. Ultimately, Kansas City was chosen as the location to get the first Google Fiber...

From X-bit Labs: At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show this week in Las Vegas, Intel Corp. made some key announcements regarding Thunderbolt technology. The company revealed new-generation controllers and disclosed plans to boost the speed of future implementations...

From X-bit Labs: HP today unveiled the world’s first commercially available HP Moonshot system, delivering compelling new infrastructure economics by using up to 89% less energy, 80% less space and costing 77% less, compared to traditional servers.

“With nearly 10 billion devices...

From CNET News.com: Google is in talks to acquire cross-platform messaging application WhatsApp, a new report claims.

Google and WhatsApp have been talking for "four or five weeks," according to Digital Trends, citing a person who claims to have knowledge of the negotiations. So far...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) won't announce its fiscal Q2 2013 (calendar Q1 2013) quarterly earnings until April 23, but South Korea's Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930), has already started things off with a bang, issuing impressive earnings guidance. The record...

From DailyTech: Microsoft's creative director put up quite a fight in favor of always-online consoles, which is a particularly curious move -- especially on Twitter -- when the company hasn't said much about its upcoming Xbox console.

Adam Orth, a creative director at Microsoft...