From X-bit Labs: At the International Supercomputing Conference, Intel Corp. made yet another announcement regarding its highly-anticipated many-core accelerator for high-performance computing (HPC) known as Knights Corner. The official name of the chip and PCI Express accelerators...

From CNET News.com: During the 12-month period that ended April 28, Barnes & Noble's Nook business, which includes e-reader, accessories, and digital content sales, posted revenue of $933 million, representing a 34.3 percent gain over the $695 million it posted in the prior year...

From DailyTech: When Nokia pulled the wraps off the 808 PureView back in February, a lot of mobile phone users were interested in the phone and its groundbreaking camera. The phone boasts a 41-megapixel camera sensor making it more like a digital camera that can make calls than a...

From DailyTech: Verizon has finally released prices for its updated FiOS Internet tiers, and gave its new service a name -- FiOS Quantum.

Verizon said its entry-level options would remain the same, such as the 15/5 Mbps, 25/25 Mbps, 35/35 Mbps, 50/20 Mbps and 150/35 Mbps tiers, but...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. on Monday introduced its first media tablets that will be sold under its own brand later this year. The company executives showed two Windows tablets and accessories that feature significant advances in industrial design and attention to detail...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. and InterDigital on Monday announced that they had signed a definitive agreement to sell to Intel roughly 1700 patents and patent applications for $375 million in cash. The radio technology patents will help Intel to better compete on the market of cell...

From PC World: Japan's Sharp said Monday it will release a new user interface for its smartphones in an attempt to differentiate them from the Android masses.

The Osaka-based electronics maker's new "Feel UX" will feature a simplistic design with large icons, and allow many phone...

From CNET News.com: Yahoo has hired Michael Barrett as executive vice president and chief revenue officer.

Barrett will lead Yahoo's ad revenue and operations worldwide, the company announced today. In his new role, Barrett will report directly to Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn...

From DailyTech: It is rumored that Amazon may launch two new Kindle Fire models later this year while cutting the price of its original tablet entry.

According to Max Wang at DigiTimes, who spoke with sources from a supply chain, Amazon is looking to launch a new 7-inch tablet for...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has been rumored to prepare an improved version of its Radeon HD 7970 graphics card in order to better compete against Nvidia Corp.'s GeForce GTX 680. What has not been known so far is that the new version of AMD's top-of-the-range single-chip...