From DailyTech: Windows 8 was an incredibly bold redesign on the part on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). The move to a more touch-friendly, graphically rich operating system certainly seemed to mirror the general direction of the device market, but that did not shield Microsoft from loads...

From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer, Nvidia Corp. PNY and some other companies have started to sell Tesla K20 GPGPU accelerators based on code-named GK110 processor featuring enhanced Kepler architecture optimized for computing with double precision. The cards cost from around $3200 in...

From X-bit Labs: Sales of smartphones based on Windows Phone operating system have quadrupled compared to the same time last year thanks to the launch of Windows Phone 8 platform. Moreover, in many countries WP8-based handsets from Nokia and HTC are sold out. With strong sales of...

From CNET News.com: Ailing smartphone maker HTC has hired a new marketing chief to help turn the company around amid a continuing financial downturn.

Benjamin Ho, the former vice president of business strategy and marketing at Taiwanese network FarEasTone and former chief marketing...

From DailyTech: The past few years haven’t been very kind to RIM. The smartphone maker has seen hordes of customers in the consumer and enterprise space defect from its platform to devices that run iOS and Android. RIM has so far seemed unable to mount any competition in the...

From DailyTech: OCZ Technology Group has announced its Vector SSD series, which is the first series built completely in-house for full design control.

The new Vector SSD series features the next-generation Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller, which, the company claims offers faster file...

From X-bit Labs: It looks like users of Apple computers may finally get a choice of graphics processing units (GPUs) as the latest developer preview of Apple Mac OS X system includes driver support for both latest AMD Radeon HD 7000-series GCN chips as well as Nvidia Corp. GeForce...

From X-bit Labs: Even despite of the fact that Nintendo has just released its all-new Wii U video game system, Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 remains the No. 1 console in the U.S. According to the software giant, it managed to sell nearly twice the number of Xbox 360 consoles than...

From CNET News.com: The latest versions of Apple's iMac go on sale this Friday, November 30.

Apple said this morning that the 21.5-inch iMac will be available at that time through the Apple Online Store, Apple's retail stores and some Apple resellers. The 27-inch iMac, meanwhile...

From DailyTech: With estimates of the total number of users of Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows operating system at be well over one billion people, it's astonishing to think how many people have experienced Minesweeper, a humble game of chance, intuition, and skill, which has been...