From DailyTech: The day of reckoning for Research In Motion has arrived. The long-awaited BlackBerry PlayBook tablet hits store shelves today in the United States and Canada.

Early reviews for the tablet -- which lacks a dedicated email, calendar, and contacts app -- have been quite...

From DailyTech: There's no question that Apple turned the smartphone market upside down when it introduced the original iPhone way back in during the summer of 2007. After its release, numerous competitors kicked into overdrive to come up with smartphones built around a touch...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology, a leading manufacturer of hard disk drives (HDDs) and storage solutions, and Samsung Electronics, a leading consumer electronics and semiconductor company, on Tuesday announced that they had entered into a definitive agreement under which Seagate...

From X-bit Labs: Several partners of Nintendo have decreased pricing of Wii game consoles in the U.S. The decision will help to popularize the aging system going forward in general as well as during Summer season in particular.

A number of leading retailers and retailers in the USA...

From InfoWorld: A flaw in Skype for Android could let criminals harvest private information from smartphones, including the user's name and email address, contacts, and chat logs, the Internet calling software maker confirmed Friday.

One security researcher called it "sloppy coding"...

From PC World: Microsoft has launched the public beta of the highly-anticipated Office 365. There is a lot to like about the cloud-based suite, but one of the most compelling features of the service might just be the price.

Starting at $6 per seat per month, Office 365 is almost a...

From CNET News.com: Intel has been criticized here and in other venues for being late to the tablet party. But Android's slow start in tablets may mean latecomers aren't necessarily losers.

A stroke of serendipity has arrived in the form of a tepid consumer reception so far for...

From DailyTech: Although it's still early in the game and Samsung hasn't made anything resembling an official announcement, South Korean web portal Daum reports that Samsung has set its sights on doubling the speed of the now ubiquitous 1GHz processor by next year.

"We are planning...

From DailyTech: The PlayStation 3 is Sony's third home video game console in the PlayStation series. It was first released in 2006, and features DualShock 3 controllers, a slim model, connectivity with PlayStation Portable, use of the Blu-ray Disc for storage and access to the online...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp's officially claims that Xeon processors may offer better level of performance and availability than the company's Itanium. According to people with alleged knowledge of the matter, Intel had been specifically reappointing engineers from the Itanium teams...