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Decisions, decisions. Should I wait for that Ivy Bridge-based laptop? Yeah, if you want a faster system with better battery life.

Infochimps announces platform as a service environment for the redhot big data market.

There's more than phones coming to Barcelona. The maker of Firefox says that the Mozilla Marketplace will open its doors to developers at next week's Mobile World Congress.

CEO Meg Whitman says during an earnings conference call that Hewlett-Packard has a line of products ready for the next iteration of Windows.

CEO Meg Whitman says that the company is "taking the necessary steps to improve execution."

The company says, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, that Verizon would receive an "excessive concentration" of wireless spectrum in the deal.

One of the organization's employees also says Foxconn banned 16- and 17-year-old workers from overtime while inspections are ongoing.

The Daily stands by its report that Microsoft has created an iPad version of Office, though the folks in Redmond label the story inaccurate.

Mozilla has begun adding mobile device support to its newer extensions framework--but it's also changing Jetpack's direction and requiring earlier extensions to be rebuilt.

The agency's top technology employee, Ira "Gus" Hunt said it'll now start acquiring software on a pay-as-you-go basis, rather than enter into licensing agreements.

The software giant says Motorola is attempting to use essential patents "to kill video on the Web." It also didn't miss the opportunity to take a swipe at Google.

Taking your site mobile is a technology minefield. Here's how we're doing it at CBS Interactive.

The new devices could appear later this year, with hybrid disk drives helping keep costs low, according to a report.

For fiscal 2013, the company says that non-GAAP earnings will top the $2.13 a share mark posted in fiscal 2012.

Microsoft says a report that it's nearly finished with a version of Office for iPad is "inaccurate."

Beyond tight integration with Windows 8, SkyDrive could be due for a slew of new features and enhancements in its next version.

Support will now run for a total of 10 years from when the operating systems were released, meaning end dates of 2020 for Windows 7 and 2017 for Vista.

The Daily reports that Redmond may soon make its Office suite app available for the Apple iPad, giving tablet users access to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

The computer maker is plunging ahead with a transformation plan that revolves around software. However, analysts note Dell is still tethered to the PC business.

If at first you don't succeed, they say. Still, although PlayBook owners will now have much of what they were hoping for in the first version, they're not getting everything.