From PC World: Facebook's anticipated 'Groupon-killer' offering group-based local coupon deals reportedly launches on Tuesday in five pilot cities in the U.S. including Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco. The service is called Facebook Deals--the old Facebook Deals...

From CNET News.com: One of the most potentially damaging things a consumer electronics company can do to one of its existing products is confirm its replacement. So when Nintendo announced yesterday that its Wii "successor" would launch next year, the obvious question was how would...

From DailyTech: We saw the potential of a dual-screen Android smartphone in the Kyocera Echo. Now, Sony is hoping to harness that potential and differentiate itself in the tablet market.

Today, Sony announced two different models of the upcoming "Sony Tablet." The first, codenamed...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is fond of describing his sleek electronic gadgets-cum-fashion statements as "magical". This week he tried to work a bit of "magic" on the public in the face of major tracking concerns.

Tracking concerns? What tracking concerns...

From X-bit Labs: At present Apple iPad commands roughly 80% of the media tablets market, but in the next couple of years Google Android operating system will become the leading operating system on tablets, believes Michael Dell, the head of Dell.

"Tablets are not really new, in the...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices managed to ship three million Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs) in Q1 2011, the firm said. The number represented about 50% of all processors for mobile systems shipped by the company, AMD said.

"We tripled [Fusion] unit shipments...

From InfoWorld: In the month since Firefox 4's launch, the browser has racked up 100 million downloads, Mozilla said last weekend.

But statistics from one Web analytics company showed that Firefox 4's introduction has done nothing to boost Mozilla's overall share of the browser...

From PC World: An update to Barnes & Noble's Nook Color adds Android 2.2, an app store and Adobe Flash, giving people the cheap Android tablet they've always wanted.

Amazon, your move.

The e-reader wars have been quiet ever since Amazon's Kindle won the pricing battle against the...

From CNET News.com: Sony's PlayStation Network is still down, and there's no telling when it might come back up.

Over the weekend, Sony Computer Entertainment America's senior director of corporate communications and social media, Patrick Seybold, said that his company is currently...

From DailyTech: The tablet deluge continues. Thanks to the former Engadget editors who currently run ThisIsMyNextSite, the cat is out of the bag on the upcoming Honeycomb-based Lenovo ThinkPad tablet.

TIMNS got their hands on what appears to be an internal Lenovo-training PowerPoint...