From InfoWorld: Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.

Terms were not disclosed.

Piston Cloud was founded by Josh McKenty, the lead architect of NASA's cloud platform, which spun off into the open...

From PC World: Acer is still producing PCs, but the Taiwanese vendor is far more bullish about the Internet of Things (IoT), a market the company doesn’t want to miss out on.

On Thursday, the Taiwanese vendor held a news conference not for a new consumer product, but to promote an upcoming...

From CNET: Customers around the world will have more ways to get their hands -- or wrists -- on Apple Watch in the coming weeks.

Apple Watch will be available in Apple's brick-and-mortar retail stores in two weeks, the company announced on Thursday, ending months of speculation on when it'll...

From CNET: Consumers who purchased Beats Pill XL speakers from Apple are being asked to stop using them due to a potential fire hazard.

On Wednesday, Apple announced a voluntary recall of the speakers, complete with refunds to customers who bought them. The company said it determined that in rare...

From ComputerWorld: Gamers, buckle up: AMD will launch its highly anticipated graphics processing unit, code-named Fiji, on June 16 at the E3 conference.

Many were expecting Fiji to launch at a press event at Computex on Wednesday, but that didn't happen. Instead, AMD show off its key technology...

From InfoWorld: With version 40 of the Firefox Developer Edition browser, Mozilla is adding performance tools to give developers a better understanding of what's happening in apps from a performance standpoint.

The new upgrades profile the performance of websites, apps, or games. "All performance...

From PC World: There is a lot to look forward to in Skylake PCs, if mini-PCs from Asus showed on the Computex show floor are an indicator.

Lying in one corner of the Asus booth were two mini-desktops based on Intel’s upcoming sixth-generation Core processor. With the powerful processors, a host of...

From CNET: Announced Wednesday at Computex, AMD's latest A-Series processors will come in 3 flavors and are designed for serious online streaming and gaming. The 3 variants come packing discrete graphics cores in the form of a Radeon R6 or R7 for better visual performance, and the chips in range...

From InfoWorld: Intel is giving Apple and other laptop makers a reason to put its Thunderbolt high-speed data ports back in their next ultrathin laptops: Thunderbolt 3.0 ports will use the same Type C connector as USB 3.1 -- but when connected to other Thunderbolt devices, will run up to four times...

From PC World: Dell’s PCs largely use Intel chips, but the company is once again warming to AMD processors for its new Inspiron laptops and desktops.

The Inspiron 5000 laptops with 14-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch screens contain AMD’s new A-series chips, code-named Carrizo. The laptops are now...