From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. is, according to All Things Digital, preparing to hold an exclusive event on October 4, 2011 to launch the fifth generation iPhone and the final build of iOS 5. New chief executive Tim Cook is expected to announce the product.

Given Mr. Cook's shy public...

From DailyTech: Nikon has announced a new camera system that is called the “Nikon 1” system and includes J1 and the V1. There is also a new family of lenses and accessories for the cameras. Nikon claims that the new camera system was built from the ground up to allow the user to...

From X-bit Labs: After one year in CEO office, Leo Apotheker may lose his position at Hewlett-Packard as the board of directors and investors are disappointed with cuts of sales forecasts and jarring strategy shifts that became common at HP in the past several quarters.

The BoD is...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has issued a whitepaper that uncovers performance of its forthcoming Tegra 3 “Kal El” system-on-chip for tablets and smartphones and shows off the benefits of a quad-core SoC with a low-power companion core over dual-core offerings from its rivals...

From InfoWorld: Adobe has moved forward with its Flash-based strategy, announcing today Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 for creating "immersive" application experiences across devices and platforms. The announcement comes on the heels of ongoing setbacks at the hands of standards-based...

From CNET News.com: Global revenue for the world's most trafficked social platform will hit $4.27 billion this year, up from $2 billion last year, according to a forecast issued today by digital market research company eMarketer.

Facebook is also on track to pull in $3.8 billion...

From DailyTech: The prospect of quad-core or higher smartphones excites many, but it also evokes fear. Many already suffering from somewhat poor battery life so imagine such high core-count designs as being Shiva incarnate for smartphone batteries, a destroyer of your pleasant...

From DailyTech: Google Inc. is giving developers their first of the next version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich will merge together the tablet and smartphone branches of Android. This is a drastic departure from the current situation where Android tablets are...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.’s next-generation Ivy Bridge processor will bring a lot more interesting features as initially believed. At the Intel Developer Forum, the world’s largest maker of chips revealed additional details about its next-gen central processing units (CPUs). The...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.'s next-generation graphics core integrated into code-named Ivy Bridge microprocessor will not only bring-in support for DirectX 11 and performance improvements, but will also include support for resolutions that are well beyond full high-definition (1920...