From DailyTech: Hold onto your shorts, Microsoft fans -- Windows 8 has an official release date, and it's October 26.

Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky announced the fall launch date today at the tech giant's annual sales meeting. Both the upgrade and new PC versions will be available...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices this week slashed prices on its enthusiast-class and high-end graphics cards that belong to Radeon HD 7900 and 7800 families. As a result of the price-cut, the new graphics cards for gamers that are based on GCN (graphics core next)...

From X-bit Labs: Patriot Memory, a leading supplier of memory and storage products, has introduced a new enclosure for external hard drives that supports Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n technology for easy access by numerous devices. The Gauntlet Node enclosure supports hard drives of up to 1TB...

From CNET News.com: AT&T launched its own "Mobile Share" plans today, matching Verizon Wireless's push to get more people to share their data plans with family members.

Mobile Share, like Verizon's Share Everything, provides a bucket of data that can be shared between as many as 10...

From DailyTech:
Panasonic has pulled the wraps off several new Lumix digital cameras today including its latest single lens mirrorless camera falling into the G line. The Lumix G5 is a digital single lens mirrorless camera with a 16.05-megapixel Live MOS image sensor and a...

From DailyTech: Leading chip maker Intel reported increased revenue and net income in its second-quarter earnings today, but predicts slowed growth in the forthcoming third quarter.

According to Intel's earnings report, the company's net income increased 3 percent to $2.8 billion...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices will disclose details about its next-generation low-power x86 processing core at Hot Chips conference in late August. The new code-named Jaguar processing cores will power AMD's Fusion solutions for low-power, low-cost notebooks and netbooks as...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has announced that it had acquired Whamcloud, a designer of Lustre file system solution for supercomputers and clusters. The takeover is a part of Intel's efforts to create exascale-class supercomputers by the end of the decade.

The Whamcloud acquisition...

From CNET News.com: Samsung plans to acquire CSR's handset connectivity and location development operations and technology, the companies announced today.

Under the terms of the deal, Samsung will hand over $310 million to the semiconductor company to take control over its "Handset...

From DailyTech: In what seems like an ever-revolving door of new CEOs, Yahoo appears to have landed a winner with its latest chief executive. Yahoo today announced that it snagged a high-profile executive from Google: 37-year-old Marissa Mayer. Mayer was one of the first females...