From DailyTech: Samsung has announced a new rugged addition to the Galaxy family: the Galaxy S4 Active. The Galaxy S4 Active has an IP67 rating for dust and water protection, and is also fully sealed against water damage for up to 30 minutes at a depth of up to three feet. The...

From DailyTech: Dell announced big changes to some of its flagship laptops and desktops at Computex in Taipei today -- and even introduced a few new peripherals to sweeten the pot.

Dell said the updates affect its XPS line (XPS 27, XPS 8700 and XPS 12), its Latitude line (Latitude...

From X-bit Labs: Creative Technology has announced the new Creative Senz3D interactive gesture camera, introducing an immersive multi-dimensional gaming, video conferencing and voice control experience for PC enthusiasts and early adopters. The cam uses technologies co-developed with...

From X-bit Labs: Although Intel Corp.’s Pentium and Celeron processors have addressed very entry level markets for around seven years now, they featured the same micro-architectures as high-performance chips. As it appears, Intel’s new low-cost/low-power Silvermont micro-architecture...

From CNET News.com: Lenovo told its shareholders in a statement Tuesday that it's in talks with a smartphone maker to engage in a possible joint venture.

"The Board would like to inform the shareholders of the Company and potential investors that the Company is in preliminary...

From DailyTech: HTC Corp. (TPE:2498) had good news and bad news on Monday.

The good news for the embattled Taiwanese OEM is that it appears to be pulling back from the edge of fiscal ruin. Its May revenue hit NT$29.0B ($971.5M USD unaudited) versus NT$91.4B ($3.06B USD) for the...

From DailyTech: SanDisk has officially announced its new line of high-performance SSDs in the Extreme II family. The new SSDs include the U110 and the iSSD i110 integrated storage devices aimed at PC OEMs. The new SSDs are built using 19 nm manufacturing processes and use the SanDisk...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital Corp. on Monday announced that it is shipping the world’s thinnest 1TB hard drive, the 2.5”/7mm WD Blue. The drives are aimed at thin notebooks as well as ultrabooks that need plenty of storage space at a low cost.

WD Blue 1TB (WD10SPCX) hard disk...

From X-bit Labs: As some of Microsoft Corp.’s partners decrease pricing of their Windows RT-based products, Microsoft Corp. is taking a different approach in a bid to make Surface RT media tablet more competitive. From now on the world’s largest software developer will bundle a cover...

From CNET News.com: Dell plans to offer consumers its own flavor of an 11.6-inch convertible laptop with Windows 8 by year's end.

Due out in time for the 2013 holiday season, the Dell XPS 11 ultrabook will sport a hinged keyboard that allows it to transform into a Windows 8 tablet...