From X-bit Labs: Sales of notebooks powered by the latest Intel Corp.'s Core i-series "Sandy Bridge" microprocessors appear to be lower than expected. Even though the decline, according to FBR Capital Markets, an investment bank, seems to be relatively slight in the first quarter (Q1...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released figures describing support of Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system by software developers. The figures show that the amount of applications designed for the WP7 platform increased by more than twice since early January, 2011...

From InfoWorld: Samsung Electronics' laptops do not contain a secret program that logs keystrokes, security researchers have found, chalking the problem up to a mistake by an antivirus program.

An IT consultant based in Toronto, Mohamed Hassan, said on Wednesday he bought a Samsung...

From PC World: Roku is making a play for brick-and-mortar sales again, offering its mid-range XD box for sale at Best Buy stores nationwide this week. Last year, a Netgear-branded set-top box with Roku software was available at retail store but Roku is betting on its own brand this...

From CNET News.com: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has a message for those who believe his company's acquisition of T-Mobile USA will steam-roll competition in the mobile marketplace.

"This industry is anything but a duopoly," Stephenson said yesterday at a conference hosted by the...

From DailyTech: Ever since Google introduced the Android mobile OS to the world in the fall of 2008, the company has advocated an open-source approach to its development and implementation. On one hand, this attitude helped fuel Android's auspicious growth. On the other hand, it also...

From DailyTech: Gianfranco Lanci, the president and CEO of Acer has resigned from the company, effective immediately.

According to a press release dated today from Taiwan's leading PC supplier, Lanci had a different vision for the future direction of the company from Acer's board of...

From X-bit Labs: Apple's custom A4 and A5 system-on-chip (SoC) solutions help Apple not only to maximize its profit margins and tailor feature-set of its consumer electronics, but also to greatly reduce its dependence of Intel Corp.'s x86 microprocessors. According to IHS iSuppli, a...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. has started to supply the final build of Microsoft Windows 8 "Milestone 2" operating system to a group of testers as well as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Based on unofficial reports, the software giant is on schedule with its pre-releases...

From InfoWorld: Cisco made announcements this week that demonstrate its commitment to more aggressively pursue its cloud vision. Clearly, the company is not aspiring to be a cloud provider like Amazon or Google. Rather, it aims to provide the groundwork for converged data centers...