From InfoWorld: After releasing its own handset to compete with Apple's iPhone, Lenovo looks like it may be preparing to take on the iPad. The Chinese company plans on releasing its own tablet PC at the end of the year.

The device will be called the "LePad" and will use the Android...

From PC World: Japan's Sharp plans to enter the increasingly competitive e-book reader market later this year with a device that can read a new e-publishing file format of its own, it said Tuesday.

The company will launch an e-book reader in Japan before the end of the year and is...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. technical conference will take place in San Francisco on September 13 - 15, 2010. In its 13th year, the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) focuses on Intel’s technology and platform roadmap directions for the next year and beyond in the areas of digital...

From X-bit Labs: ntel Corp. on Sunday added its six-core Core i7-970 central processing unit (CPU) to the price list. The chip giant has not made any formal announcements on the matter of its six-core microprocessor that does not belong to the "Extreme" family. The chip's price...

From CNET News.com: Google has opened up a key data stream coming out of Google Buzz that gives developers access to content as it's published.

Access to the so-called "firehose" of Google Buzz data was turned on Monday, Google announced in a blog post. This allows developers to...

From CNET News.com: The Amazon.com Kindle e-reader and bookstore have reached a "tipping point," the company said Monday, with Kindle titles outselling hardcover books on the massive online marketplace for the first time.

"We've reached a tipping point with the new price of Kindle-...

From DailyTech: Terry Myerson, the Microsoft Corporate VP of Windows Phone Engineering who was recently called out on the Microsoft Kin phone debacle, had some good news to report yesterday. Windows Phone 7 hardware and software has been released in beta form to developers and a...

From DailyTech: Microsoft's Kin smartphones made Palm's struggling Pre look like marketing genius. Released exclusively on Verizon about 2 months back, the pair of phones marked the culmination of Microsoft's reportedly $500M USD purchase of Danger (makers of the Sidekick).

The...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has announced that it would bring forward the introduction of its code-named Ontario low-power low-cost chip that combines x86 processing units with graphics engine on the same piece of silicon. Unfortunately, speed up of the launch seem to...

From X-bit Labs: Due to issues with 32nm silicon-on-insulator process technology, Advanced Micro Devices had to delay the launch of the highly-anticipated code-named Llano processor that combines high-performance x86 central processing unit with graphics processing unit on the same...