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Shipments of wearable computing, especially of the functional and stylish variety, will exceed 19 million units in 2014, according to research from International Data Corporation released Apr. 10. In addition, IDC reported that by 2018 the worldwide market would grow to nearly 112 million units...

The Xbox 360 version of Titanfall, the highly anticipated first-person shooter from Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA), has been delayed again. The game was originally scheduled to ship alongside its Xbox One and PC counterparts on Tuesday, March 11. EA initially delayed the Xbox 360 edition until March...

It’s called Office 365 Personal and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said Sunday the new cloud-based version of its popular productivity software would work just like the conventional program and include Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Office 365 Personal will sell for $69.99 a year or $6.99 a...

On a conference call Thursday, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) chief executive officer, Meg Whitman had some good and unexpected news about revenue growth. Not just revenue growth per se but growth in the unlikeliest of areas, PC sales. The Personal Systems Group (PSG) posted revenue of $8.5...

Businesses are all about saving money. Now Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) have come up with a way enterprises can save lots of money via Google’s inexpensive Chromebook. Chromebook users, thanks to VMware, will be able to access Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows applications via...

U.S. technology giant, International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has appointed Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) to help it explore the possibility of selling its semiconductor manufacturing business, according to a report in the Financial Times on Thursday. Sources told the newspaper that in lieu of...

As Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) appeared about to name Satya Nadella its new CEO to replace retiring chief, Steve Ballmer, questions continued to surround co-founder, Bill Gates – especially with regard to his role following the upcoming changing of the guard. Bloomberg reported Monday that sources...

In a much-anticipated announcement, Lenovo Group, the world’s largest PC maker, will purchase IBM's (NYSE: IBM) low-end x86 server business for $2.3 billion in cash and stock—the largest tech acquisition by a Chinese company. The deal is mostly cash--$2.07 billion with the remaining balance in...

According to market research firm, IDC, by the end of 2013, worldwide PC sales will have fallen more than 10 percent over a year ago. IDC said it would turn out to be the worst year on record for PC sales. Total sales this year, IDC said, would be about 314 million PCs, with most of those in...

In a detailed post on Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google+ social network, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt offered step-by-step directions for his many friends who he said were switching from their Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhones to one of several “more intuitive” Android smartphones. In the post,...

This could be a game changer. Literally. CNET reported Monday that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) opened its Shield gaming device up to the universe of Android games on the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Play store. This move changes the number of games available for Shield from hundreds to thousands...

For starters, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) had to pull the Windows 8.1 RT update due to a “situation affecting a limited number of users.” The “situation,” aka, the Blue Screen of Death, was only part of the problem for Windows 8.1. As for the PC version, issues have included booting to a blank...

The departure of CEO Steve Ballmer from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) – and the fact there is no named successor yet - has given rise to one obvious question. Is Bill Gates returning for a more active role with the company? He says he is not, but many believe his denial lacks real conviction....