From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer on Tuesday started to sell mainstream VivoBook S500 and S550 laptops with Windows 8 operating system and 15.6” multi-touch-enabled displays. The VivoBook S500 laptops will be among the most affordable laptops with touchscreens in Asus’ lineup, yet...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday announced the first availability of the AMD Elite A-series accelerated processing units (APUs), code-named “Richland”. The new AMD A-series APUs will not offer dramatic performance advantages over predecessors, but will improve user...

From CNET News.com: An about-face in Internet Explorer 10 shows Microsoft is not merely backing off from its hostility toward Flash Player, but actually warming up to the Adobe Systems browser plug-in for competitive reasons.

In September 2011, Microsoft declared that browser plug...

From DailyTech: Lenovo's slip about possibly buying BlackBerry sent the BB10 maker's shares up 14 percent in New York.

Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing told French financial newspaper "Les Echos" that it could eventually buy BlackBerry, but it needs to review such a decision first.

"[The...

From DailyTech: Seagate has reached an impressive milestone today with the announcement that it has become the first hard drive maker to ship 2 billion HDDs. Seagate says that the impressive number has been fueled by significant demand for storage on mobile devices, for cloud...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. is projected to develop a new revision of its 8-series chipsets for Core i-series 4000-family code-named Haswell microprocessors to fix the USB 3.0 issues that transpired recently. As it appears, the core-logic sets at launch will have a nuisance USB 3.0...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has quietly started to sell two new multi-core AMD FX-series microprocessors with four and six cores. The new chips are based on Piledriver micro-architecture and support all the modern instructions and technologies. The new products are...

From CNET News.com: Carl Icahn's quest for greater influence over PC maker Dell has entered a new phase.

Icahn Enterprises this morning announced that, as of yesterday, it has entered into a confidentiality agreement with Dell. The only other element in the press release bearing the...

From CNET News.com: A year ago, the Internet media giant lost its CTO, its tech lead, its head of sales, TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld, and a slew of technology people in its West Coast office.

Activist investors were calling for a new board or directors, and some were even...

From DailyTech: The fortunes of Microsoft, hardware manufacturers, and computer makers from all around the world are closely tied together. When Microsoft offers popular software, such as a new version of its Windows operating system, sales of PCs can increase significantly.

Dong...