From Tom's Hardware: We know from personal experience that Windows 7 is a faster, smoother, smarter and more capable operating system than it predecessors. But now businesses are finding that there may be a worthwhile investment in stepping up to a more modern operating system...

From InfoWorld: Samsung Electronics, one of the world's largest electronics makers, on Wednesday forecast record operating profit for the second quarter of 2010 on strong sales.

The company is considered a technology industry bellwether because it is the world's largest producer of...

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices is looking to invest in technology companies as it tries to build a hardware and software ecosystem around its upcoming Fusion processor, the company said on Tuesday.

The chip designer will invest in software companies to develop applications...

From PC World: News of hacked iTunes user accounts made headlines earlier this week, but it turns out only a very small fraction of users were affected. Apple says just 400 user accounts were compromised over the weekend, which equals to around 0.0003 percent of the over 150 million...

From DailyTech: Most of HTC's early years were spent as a contract maker of phones that were rebranded by other companies. HTC started to brand devices with its own mark and has made a big name for itself over the last few years in the smartphone and feature phone industry.

HTC has...

From DailyTech: Verizon Wireless must pay 175,000 plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit a $21 million settlement, The Wall Street Journal reports.

A California court of appeals has upheld the 2008 settlement, which dates back to an original complaint over early termination fees filed...

From CNET News.com: CNET is seeing plenty such reports saying iPhone 4 usersin some regions of the country, including New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and as far west as Salt Lake City and Seattle, are experiencing dramatic drops in their data upload speeds.

People in the...

From CNET News.com: Charles Jolley, one of the primary creators of the SproutCore programming tools for building rich Web applications, has left Apple and struck off on his own to start a new company based on the technology.

Jolley announced the new start-up, Strobe Digital...

From CNET News.com: In an attempt to make the next PlayStation more developer-friendly than the current version, Sony is enlisting the help of its in-house developers, according to a top company executive.

Shuhei Yoshida, head of Sony's network of game developers called Worldwide...

From PC World: Never mind the jumbo 4.3-inch display, high-res 8-megapixel camera, or speedy 1GHz processor, the finest feature of Motorola's new Droid X smartphone may be its ability to hold a charge.

Too boring? Not at all. Some smartphones are better at power management than...