From PC World: Microsoft's Steve Sinofsky announced on the Building Windows 8 blog Wednesday that development on Windows 8 is now complete. The final bits are being shipped to hardware OEMs, which can now do the heavy lifting of integrating the shiny new OS into new PC systems, which...

From CRN: More than 1 million people signed up for Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s Outlook.com in the first six hours the company's new online email service was available.

Microsoft is hoping that Outlook.com, the eventual replacement for its Hotmail personal email service, will help it...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology has confirmed that shipments for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012 (ended June 29, 2012) were record 66 million (42% of the market), which is slightly lower than the company had expected previously. Thanks to increased shipments amid high...

From CNET News.com: After more than a month's wait, Apple has released the Thuderbolt-based FireWire adapters that it announced at WWDC 2012 along with its latest portable systems.

In Apple's latest MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Retina Display, the company is saving space in its...

From InfoWorld: Lenovo and EMC will team up to develop and sell server and storage technology, with an eye to the Chinese market, the companies said on Wednesday.

The partnership will improve Lenovo's standing in the server and storage space, while giving EMC greater access to China...

From PC World: Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail.

Microsoft also expects that Outlook.com will draw people away from competing consumer webmail services like Google's Gmail and...

From Tom's Hardware: Information coming out of Swedish website SweClockers has Nvidia set to release its new Kepler-based GTX 660 Ti, replacing the GTX 560 Ti. We originally reported that the GTX 660 Ti would not hit the market until Q3, but now all signs point to an August 16th...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology on Monday sid that Gary Gentry has rejoined Seagate to lead its solid state drive (SSD) business as senior vice president of SSD business unit. The appointment of a recognized flash storage specialist underlines importance of SSD business for...

From CNET News.com: Apple began day two of the trial between it and Samsung with opening statements depicting it as an underdog that came into the phone industry and changed the game.

Harold McElhinny, a partner at Morrison Foerster, kicked off the case for Apple by saying the...

From eWeek: Images of a Sony Xperia Tablet, said to be from leaked internal Sony documents, show a considerably slimmed-down tablet with a keyboard-cover that flatters the Microsoft Surface.

The Apple iPad has inspired an industry full of copy cat devices. Microsoft's Surface tablet...