From PC World: D-Link fired a shot across the bow of Belkin’s WeMo brand today, announcing not only a new Wi-Fi router, but a new motion sensor and a Smart Home app to manage all the products in its burgeoning connected-home portfolio.

D-Link’s DIY approach is in obvious contrast to Vivint’s...

From CNET: Sales are still shrinking at phone maker BlackBerry, but cost-cutting measures buoyed the company's earnings for its fiscal first quarter, the company said Thursday.

BlackBerry, which has been trying to reinvent itself under new leader John Chen, reported a narrower loss than analysts...

From DailyTech: Today is a big day for Amazon. The company over the years has increased its stake in the hardware game first with its Kindle eReaders, and then later with Kindle Fire tablets and Fire TV streaming device. Now Amazon is entering the cutthroat smartphone market with the Fire.

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From InfoWorld: Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Tail-f Systems, a developer of multivendor network service orchestration systems for traditional and virtualized networks, and one of the vendors AT&T selected for its Domain 2.0 SDN/NFV project.

Under the terms of the...

From PC World: Samsung Electronics has launched a new version of the Galaxy S5 with an upgraded screen and faster processor, but for now it is only available in South Korea.

The launch of Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone back in February was preceded by an avalanche of rumors and speculation...

From CNET: Apple updated its iMac array of all-in-one computers on Wednesday with a low-end model priced at $1,099.

The new iMac features a 21.5-inch screen and a 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, along with 8GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive. This latest edition is available now, Apple...

From DailyTech: Amazon is in a bit of a price negotiation tussle with book publisher Hatchette, and as a result Amazon customers looking to pre-order Hatchette titles have been caught in the middle.

Seeing a prime opportunity to kick a little dirt in Amazon’s eyes during this ensuing fight, Apple...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft's Internet Explorer Developer Channel, revealed Monday, is providing developers a sneak peek at upcoming improvements planned for its browser, with the focus now on WebDriver and WebGL support.

Featuring a fully functioning browser, IE Developer Channel is available for...

From PC World: Apple has reached an out-of-court settlement in the ebooks price-fixing lawsuit with U.S. states and a consumer group ahead of a trial for damages scheduled for July 14, according to records in a New York federal court.

The iPhone maker will, however, continue its appeal of a verdict...

From CNET: A note connotes something small, a brief comment or a single expression of tone in a piece of music. But the arrival of Samsung's first Galaxy Note was anything but small, playing perfectly into the company's "next big thing" campaign.

It was easy to understand that the Galaxy Note was...