From CNET News.com: Microsoft's Windows Phone grabbed third place from BlackBerry in global smartphone shipments in the first quarter, market researcher IDC said Thursday.

Windows Phone accounted for shipments of 7 million smartphones, earning itself a market share of 3.2 percent...

From DailyTech: At today's Google I/O conference, the tech giant announced a number of cool new features for its market-dominating Android Operating System along with a special version of the recently introduced Samsung Galaxy S4.

Google will sell a fully unlocked version of the...

From DailyTech: Until now, we knew (officially) that an unnamed successor to Windows 8 would enter Release Preview testing next month at Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) BUILD Conference. Now that unnamed release has received an official title.

At JP Morgan & Chase Comp.'s (JPM) Media...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has introduced what it claims to be the world’s highest-performing mobile graphics processor, the Radeon HD 8970M. The new solution is generally similar to its predecessor, but comes with different clock-speeds and a set of software, which...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has altered its Tegra mobile chip roadmap and now the world will see the first products based on fully-integrated Tegra 4i some six months earlier than originally schedule. At the same time, the company delayed the mass release of its high-performance...

From CNET News.com: On the evening before the Google I/O keynote address, the Web giant has spruced up its Google Play Store.

Version 4.1.6, which appeared Tuesday night, features colorful home buttons for the store's App, Movies, and Games categories, as well as improved spacing...

From DailyTech: HP has announced the addition of two new products to its x2 detachable PC portfolio. The two machines include the HP SlateBook x2 and the Split x2. The SlateBook x2 is the first Android detachable device using the NVIDIA Tegra 4 mobile processor. HP promises that the...

From DailyTech: Microsoft bet big on Windows RT as a tablet operating system for devices running ARM processors. So far, that bet hasn't really paid off with consumers staying far away from Windows RT devices. Some major computer manufacturers have abandoned their plans to launch...

From X-bit Labs: SilverStone Technology, a leading supplier of power supply units, has published the list of PSUs compatible with Intel Core i-series microprocessors based on Haswell micro-architecture. The list includes over 30 PSUs fully-compatible with next-generation...

From X-bit Labs: With commodity DRAM prices on the rise, contract price for mainstream DDR3 4 GB modules increased from $17.25 in the beginning of the first quarter to $23.5 at the end of March, a 36.2% increase. As a result, DRAM industry revenue for the first quarter of 2013...