From DailyTech: We have known for quite some time that Intel CEO Paul Otellini was set to retire this year. Today, however, Intel voted unanimously to replace outgoing CEO Otellini with new CEO Brian Krzanich.

Kzanich will assume the CEO position at Intel's annual stockholders...

From DailyTech: Toshiba has gone official with its latest Windows 8 Pro tablet. This Toshiba WT310 has more in common with an average ultrabook than some of the other tablets on the market and features an 11.6-inch full HD resolution display.

Toshiba is staying mum on some of the...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology on Wednesday reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2013, which ended March 29, 2013. While Seagate’s arch-rival Western Digital Corp. appeared to be immune to PC shipments drop in calendar Q1 2013, Seagate suffered decreases in...

From X-bit Labs: Smart Storage Systems, an innovative enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) technology provider, this week announced the new Optimus Eco, the first SAS-6Gb/s SSD on the market to leverage 19nm multi-level cell (MLC) flash. The SSD combines performance, capacity...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's latest flavor of Windows took home 3.84 percent of all traffic captured by Web tracker Net Applications in April. That proved a small gain from the 3.2 percent earned in March.

Starting with a 1.09 percent share in November, Windows 8 sliced out a a 1...

From DailyTech: When it comes to forward-looking progress in the mobile sector, most people aren't looking to companies like BlackBerry for direction. Instead, most people look towards Google, Apple, Amazon, and to a lesser extent these days, Microsoft.

However, BlackBerry, which...

From DailyTech: Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) finds itself in an unusual position. The struggling third place carrier suddenly finds itself with not just one, but two large, highly attractive suitors vying for partial ownership in it. Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984) struck first with a $20B...

From X-bit Labs: Acer Group, one of the top PC makers, is working on a netbook computer with a microprocessor originally developed for media tablets and convertibles. The laptop with ten-point multi-touch display promises to be one of the most energy-efficient clamshell designs with...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.’s Haswell microprocessors due in early June are expected to bring a number of innovations designed to improve performance and cut power consumption, however, in many cases not all users will be able to enjoy all of them. As it appears, end-users will...

From CNET News.com: Best Buy is selling its 50 percent joint venture stake back to mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse for 500 million pounds ($775 million).

It's a massive loss for Best Buy, which bought 50 percent of Carphone Warehouse's retail operations for $2.1 billion in...