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...

From PC World: On Monday night, Amazon announced a new cloud-based music service that lets people store their music in "the cloud" and access it from anywhere.

We've recently heard rumors that Google is testing (internally) a similar service, but has been running into legal troubles...