From DailyTech: Google Inc.'s (GOOG) I/O conference for Android OS developers is fast approaching. Held on May 28 and 29 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, Calif., the event promises to pack in thousands of developers eager to get the inside track on technical details of the world's...

From InfoWorld: AMD's recent chips haven't rocked Intel's PC market dominance, but new chips based on the company's Zen architecture could change the narrative next year.

The company on Wednesday shared initial details about the new FX and seventh-generation A-series chips, which will be in...

From PC World: Linksys has announced that it’s the first to ship a working MU-MIMO (multiple-user, multiple input, multiple output) router, the $280 Linksys Max-Stream AC2600 (aka the EA8500). That grumbling you’re hearing is coming from early adopters who already bought MU-MIMO-“ready” routers and...

From CNET: Siri may look more colorful when Apple unveils the next edition of iOS.

As expected, Apple has been mum about which changes and new features could show up in iOS 9, the next version of its mobile operating system for iPhone and iPad users. Apple is expected to unveil iOS 9 at its...

From DailyTech: Paul Thurrott, proprietor of the Supersite for Windows and various other blogs, has a pretty good track record when it comes to having the inside scoop on upcoming, unannounced Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) news. According to a Monday post from Thurrott his sources have confirmed that...

From InfoWorld: With the release of the Nginx 1.9.0 Web server, Nginx has taken TCP load-balancing capabilities from its commercial Nginx Plus product and fitted it to the company's open source technology.

TCP load balancing improves failover consistency among worker processes, according to Nginx...

From PC World: Google has introduced a service for storing large amounts of data online, potentially enabling organizations to execute big data analysis as a cloud service.

The offering, called Google Cloud Bigtable, “is based on technology that Google has been running internally for many years, so...

From CNET: If you live in either Hong Kong or Singapore and have been waiting for Xiaomi's Mi 4i since it was released two weeks ago in India, the Chinese smartphone maker announced that the $205 phone will hit these markets on May 12. Announcements for Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia will be made...

From DailyTech: The slow pace of updates to bring users to the latest and greatest version of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android -- the world's most used mobile operating system -- is a well documented and much discussed problem. The slower adoption cycle ultimately stems from the fact that Google does...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft today launched a broader-based public preview of Office 2016 for Windows, expanding on the March sneak peek that was available only to subscribers of select business-grade Office 365 plans.

The new desktop suite includes Access, Excel, Lync, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint...