From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced the immediate availability of the Windows 8.1 Preview, the next update of the Windows operating system, at the company’s developer-focused Build conference. Microsoft Windows 8.1 is expected to improve performance, power...

From CNET News.com: If Internet Explorer 10 impressed you, you're going to love what we now expect from IE11 at Microsoft's Build conference on Wednesday.

Information leaked by a Microsoft Developer Network subscriber appears to confirm long-rumored details on what's going to be...

From DailyTech: DISH Network Corp. (DISH) founder and CEO Charlie Ergen hates losing. But it appears that he has lost in his acquisition bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), with approximately 80 percent of shareholders (with 98 percent voting) approving of a rival bid from Japanese...

From DailyTech: AT&T was able to clear out its stock of the HTC First smartphone -- dubbed the Facebook phone -- but mentioned that this isn't a sign of the device's success.

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said the HTC First was slow-moving when it launched, but after a hefty...

From X-bit Labs: Although Nokia Lumia 900-series are meant to compete against flagship smartphones from Apple and Samsung, they have fail to become as popular as the iPhones or Galaxy S-series. After failing to offer breakthrough functionality with Lumia 900 family of smartphones...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia on Tuesday added yet another graphics card into the GeForce GTX 700 family of products. The GeForce GTX 760 is yet another graphics card based on the GK104 graphics processing unit announced a year ago that is available at considerably more affordable price...

From CNET News.com: Barnes & Noble is taking its losses and running.

In a statement released Tuesday, the retailer revealed that it's pulling out of its Nook tablet manufacturing business in the face of ongoing losses:

The company plans to significantly reduce losses in the...

From DailyTech: Apple is easily one of the most valuable companies in the world, not just the technology industry. However, recently Apple's share price dipped below $400 per share for the first time since April. The deflating stock price resulted as a stockpile of unsold iPhones...

From DailyTech: Bigger is better, right? Well, that's what AT&T's current series of commercials have told us. It seems as though Sony subscribes to that theory as well because the company just dropped a monster smartphone on an unsuspecting public: the Xperia Z Ultra.

The new...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. on Monday announced a partnership that will enable customers to run Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure. Customers will be able to deploy Oracle software, including Java, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic...