From X-bit Labs: Even though Apple sells its iPad for the starting price of $499, the actual manufacturing cost of the device is around $260, a teardown analysis by iSuppli market research firm has revealed. It appears that Apple makes a vast amount of money both on the device itself...

From X-bit Labs: The prospects of Lenovo Skylight, the industry’s first smartbook, are getting much dimmer as Lenovo Group announces delays of its shipments by over three months in the U.S. As a consequence, when the device finally hits the market, it will not only have to compete...

From PC World: AMD has released a bit more information on its upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 processor (codenamed Thuban) and revealing its take on automated overclocking, dubbed Turbo Core. We've covered Intel's Turbo Boost feature at length, and AMD's Turbo Core follows many of the...

From CNET News.com: Apple's distaste for Adobe Systems' Flash went a step further Thursday with new iPhone programming terms that could shut down an Adobe tactic to slip its technology onto the iPhone through the back door.

Flash is a widely used foundation for applications and...

From DailyTech: It's been just over a year since Apple last held an event touting the latest and greatest version of its iPhone OS. In March 2009, the big features that Apple brought to the table with iPhone OS 3.0 included copy/paste, push notifications, and push notifications (to...

From Tom's Hardware: Microsoft is pushing itself into the High Performance Computing. This week the company reached a milestone with its release of a second beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.

In the TechNet blog, Ryan Waite, Product Unit Manager, Microsoft High Performance...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. said on Wednesday that it would begin shipments of its experimental 48-core microprocessors dubbed single-chip cloud computer (SSC) late in the second quarter of the year. The systems-based on the central processing units (CPUs) will be sent to academic...

From X-bit Labs: As Palm is becoming a likely target for an acquisition, Lenovo Group, a company that recently re-entered the market of mobile phones, is named a potential buyer.

Palm is the inventor of personal digital assistant (PDA), the father of today’s smartphone. However, the...

From InfoWorld: Next month, Microsoft will release Office 2010 into an IT world that Google has been reshaping as use of its Google Apps services spread to places like the City of Los Angeles and Genentech, Inc.

With the release of Office 2010 on May 12, Microsoft will complete an...

From PC World: Having already conquered a large portion of online communication, Google decided to branch out and try its magic on good old-fashioned telephone calls. Google Voice is a free service that acts as a convenient hub for all of your existing phone numbers, giving you...