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...

From DailyTech: Forbes is reporting some interesting new rumors on the next-generation Xbox game console from Microsoft. We have known for a while that the next generation console is in the works and is expected to the launch this year with the codename Durango.

Many of those rumors...

From DailyTech: LG has announced that it is set to begin accepting pre-orders on its revolutionary curved-screen OLED television with delivery set to begin next month. The television (Model 55EA9800) features a curved 55-inch screen and is model number. LG says that over 1400 of its...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, on Monday announced Canvio Connect, a portable external hard drive that offers high capacity storage along with the ability to access and share files directly from any...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices is prepping Radeon HD 7730 graphics card, the most affordable graphics solution based on GCN (graphics core next) architecture. The new solution will likely be based on code-named Cape Verde graphics processing unit and will address the market...