From CNET News.com: Outlook and Hotmail users came blame the recent outage on an overheated data center, Microsoft says.

On Tuesday at around 1:30 p.m. PT, the two online e-mail services suffered a service disruption, rendering them inaccessible to many users. Microsoft started to...

From DailyTech: Amazon launched its $299, 8.9” screen Kindle Fire HD tablet in the United States last year. Amazon has announced that it has now launched the 8.9” Kindle Fire HD in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Japan.

“We’re thrilled with customer reaction to Kindle Fire...

From DailyTech: Google is finally settling a three-year investigation this week into a Wi-Fi incident that occurred when compiling data for its mapping service.

Google's Street View mapping cars had accidentally collected personal data, such as home wireless network passwords...

From X-bit Labs: Although Intel Corp. is on track to introduce its next-generation Core i-series “Haswell” microprocessors for desktops and notebooks in June, the company will limit the amount of microprocessors and mainboards on the market because of the recently transpired glitch...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. one of the world’s largest manufacturers of NAND flash memory, on Wednesday said it had begun to ship its new-generation solid-state drives based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash made using 19nm process technology. The new product series offer...

From CNET News.com: It looks like there's more bad news down the pike for HTC and its One flagship phone.

The handset vendor said today it is pushing back the phone's arrival of preorders in certain markets to the end of the month, with a formal rollout to other markets in April...

From DailyTech: Dell has announced a new all-in-one computer called the XPS 18 that it says is its thinnest, lightest, and most versatile AIO ever. The computer is set to launch in the U.S. and in select European countries on April 16 with a starting price of $899.99.

The machine...

From DailyTech: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today approved Deutsche Telekom AG (ETR:DTE) bid to partially acquire MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) and merge it with the T-Mobile USA brand.

The rather complex deal involves MetroPCS splitting its shares, then...

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...