From DailyTech: A Dutch website called bouweenpc.nl claims to have sources reporting that Microsoft has completed the first public beta of Office 2013 and it will be released sometime next week. Microsoft has already showed a live public demo of the Windows RT version of Office 2013...

From DailyTech: Apple is planning to give its iTunes media player program a makeover later this year, which is to include new ways of sharing music and further iCloud integration.

ITunes has been Apple's media player since January 2001. It is used for playing, downloading and...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. has already announced plans to release hybrid hard drives later this year and seems to be very excited about the technology. But although the company sees high potential of hybrid hard drives - which employ both rotating magnetic media as well as NAND...

From X-bit Labs: Micron Technology has finalized terms of the deal to acquire Elpida Memory, the bankrupt maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), from Japan, according to a local media report. The U.S.-based maker of computer memory will pay around $2.5 billion for Elpida's...

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard's new Velocity software helps IT staff optimize network performance for users who work on its thin or zero clients, the company said on Wednesday.

The Velocity software, which is installed on both client and server, has been designed to improve thin...

From DailyTech: Google Inc. (GOOG) had a big day today announcing Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the successor release to Ice Cream Sandwich. The new operating system build comes packing a plethora of new features and improvements, including adding some neat GUI animations that will be...

From DailyTech: A mysterious device has appeared on the Google Play website ahead of its possible announcement at Google's annual I/O developer conference today.

The Nexus Q "social streaming media player" is cloud-based and can stream Google Play Music, Google Play Movies/TV, and...

From X-bit Labs: The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC) on Wednesday announced that new members ARM, Hewlett-Packard, and SK Hynix have joined the effort to accelerate widespread industry adoption of hybrid memory cube (HMC) technology. The new members will help to standardize HMC...

From X-bit Labs: Google on Wednesday introduced its first own-brand Nexus 7” tablet, one of the world’s first slates based on Nvidia Corp.’s Tegra 3 system-on-chip that costs $199. The tablet weighs just 340 grams, but comes with high-resolution screen, high-quality front-facing...

From CNET News.com: Google has awarded several folks serious cash for finding security holes in its Chrome browser.

A researcher identified as "miaubiz" earned the lion's share of the cash Google doled out, securing $7,000 for finding a host of High priority security flaws. The...