From InfoWorld: Sprint has reached a deal to buy T-Mobile US for about $50 billion, according to news reports on Wednesday.

Sprint, owned by Japan's Softbank, would pay about $40 per share for T-Mobile, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal could still...

From PC World: Cheaper smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system are on the way, a Microsoft executive said Wednesday.

Speaking at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Microsoft’s Nick Parker, who handles the company’s partnerships with device makers, said the new handsets could...

From CNET: Twitter has over the last several months considering buying music streaming companies but subsequently backed off the idea, according to a new report.

Twitter has bounced around the idea of acquiring Soundcloud, Spotify, and even Pandora recently, according to the Financial Times, citing...

From DailyTech: We have covered numerous reports over the years that have suggested that Amazon would introduce its own smartphone. It’s only been in the past few months, however, that we’ve gotten concrete evidence that the company indeed has a product that was close to production, courtesy of...

From InfoWorld: Smartwatch applications can be customized for devices with round displays by tweaking the user interface, Google said as it ramps up efforts to get developers ready for the launch of Android Wear.

Wear is an extension of Android, and to make the OS a better fit for smartwatches with...

From PC World: The price of 4K monitors could fall to under $400 by the end of the this year, according to Intel.

Monitors with 4K support display images at a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, four times the number of pixels found on 1080p high-definition monitors or TVs.

The chip maker is working...

From CNET: Motorola is trying to lure phone shoppers to its Moto X smartphone by offering $100 off the price of the contract- free 32GB edition.

In an online sale that started at midnight ET Wednesday and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday, Motorola brings down the price of the no-contract 32GB Moto X...

From DailyTech: When it comes to processors used in today’s computers (be they laptops, desktops, or servers), Intel remains the king. However, as consumers find themselves increasingly moving away from being tied down to a desktop towards mobile devices, Intel still wants to be at the forefront of...

From InfoWorld: Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern programming capabilities for Apple application development and streamline the building of applications.

Featured as part of the Xcode 6 IDE (now in a beta release) and introduced this morning, Swift is a...

From PC World: Intel’s fifth-generation Core processor family—code-named Broadwell—might be late, but the company has cooked up a couple of brand-new Haswell-class desktop CPUs that PC enthusiasts are sure to dig. Code-named Devil’s Canyon, Intel unveiled the all-new Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K...