From PC World: Alienware’s refreshed laptops announced today at Pax Prime will feature better screens, Thunderbolt 3 and even a new AMD GPU but oddly won’t feature Intel’s latest CPU.

The company announced three refreshed laptops: Alienware 13, Alienware 15, and Alienware 17, with the numeral...

From CNET: No, the Apple Watch hasn't completely dominated the wearables market just yet -- but it's getting there.

In researcher IDC's latest quarterly report on wearables, Apple's first smartwatch -- which went on sale in April -- debuted at the No. 2 spot, just behind category leader Fitbit...

From InfoWorld: The Windows version of Microsoft Office 2016 appears to be less than a month away, according to a leaked internal document.

A screenshot from Microsoft's employee intranet lists a September 22 release date for Office 2016 on Windows, WinFuture.de reports. Microsoft released a Mac...

From PC World: Chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has won a court ruling that will prohibit a former employee from leaking trade secrets to rivals, including Samsung.

On Monday, Taiwan's Supreme Court ruled in favor of TSMC in its lawsuit against Liang Mong-song, an executive who...

From CNET: The Apple Watch appears to be a hit at Best Buy. To capitalize on that demand, the electronics retailer plans to carry the smartwatch in all its stores by the end of next month.

Best Buy will sell the Apple Watch in 900 stores starting September 4, CEO Hubert Joly said during the company...

From DailyTech: When it comes to Windows in the smartphone space, there's plenty of bad news, but perhaps the strongest positive is Windows 10. Windows 10 is coming to smartphone and soon. It's expected to be flashed to new devices as soon as next month and to roll out to existing devices over the...

From CNET: Can't get enough of smartwatches? Well, a whole new batch is on its way.

Asus, Huawei, LG and Motorola will introduce their newest smartwatches next week at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin, according to people familiar with the companies' launch plans. The devices will all run...

From InfoWorld: Looking to fuel enterprise adoption of the cloud, Intel is playing a lead role in a $100 million investment in an emerging player in the OpenStack arena.

Intel announced today it was leading a $100 million funding round for a collaboration with Mirantis Inc., a Mountain View, Calif...

From PC World: Comcast plans to begin 1-gigabit service rollouts later this year, with an eye toward pushing the service nationwide in two to three years, according to a report.

The key is the deployment of DOCSIS 3.1, a cable-modem standard that Comcast will begin trialing during the fourth...

From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in July announced it would be embarking on a fresh round of layoffs, which would more specifically involve the "reduction of up to 7,800 positions, primarily in the phone business."

Microsoft billed it as part of a "restructuring process", for its phone...