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In the very near future, we may be able to get hands on new Sandy Bridge-based MacBook Air, with a stylist black finish.

According to rumors and a Tweet from CNet's Brian Tong, Apple is set to launch their new Mac Pro, and Mac Mini in early August 2011. The fall release is set to feature upgraded CPU with Sandy Bridge and Thuderbolt along with the newest OS X Lion.

Motorola Droid 3 aka Milestone 3 has now officially (and quietly) been launched in China and the slider smartphone sounds and looks sound enough to give the next generation iPhone (dubbed iPhone 5) a run for its money.

Facebook plans to debut its iPad and iPad 2 app within this month despite some bumpy history and speculations of the two companies being at odds.

Rarely has Apple faced the 'ultimate software-hardware asymmetry' with regard to product launches. But it appears to be such a season for the consumer tech giant. Apple unveiled at the WWDC the iOS 5, the feature-filled update for its vaulted mobile operating system. But then it failed to say anything about when iPhone 5, the device the iOS 5 was supposed to enrich. Then, iCloud was launched, but the network preparedness, or the lack of it, of world carriers came in the spotlight.Now, it l...

Google and solar power company SolarCity formed a partnership to create a new $280 million fund designated for residential solar projects -- the largest of its kind in the United States.

Apple is known to have provided global consumers with some exciting products. But there are many more which are highly anticipated but still in the pipeline. Here is a list of 6 most-anticipated products from Apple:

Goldman Sachs is to launch a commodities index with Clive Capital, the world's largest commodity hedge fund, the Financial Times reported on Monday citing a source familiar with the product.

Dubai, facing a budget deficit, is planning a benchmark sovereign dollar bond issue in the coming days after holding meetings with potential investors in London on Monday and Tuesday.

Microsoft has updated new iPhone apps in its search engine Bing, in order to help Apple users find the right application for the right task.

Dell Inc has chosen to launch its new 10-inch Android tablet in China this summer, passing up on a U.S., Europe launch, as China emerges as a front line battle for tablets.

Morgan Stanley and its China partner Huaxin Securities launched their joint venture on Friday, joining several other rivals looking to cash in on the country's booming investment banking business.

Hewlett-Packard is set to enter the tablet race and compete with Apple's iPad by the official arrival of its TouchPad on July 1 in the United States.

Large banks are crafting their strategy to get regulators to back off from tough talk that they may force the riskiest firms to hold twice as much capital as smaller banks.

A hacker has exploited the vulnerability of iOS 5 by hacking into the newly launched, but not yet released, mobile operating system.

China's Sina Corp will launch an English version of its microblog, Weibo, by the end of the year for overseas users, a company spokesman said on Tuesday.

China's Sina Corp is readying an English version of its microblogging platform, Weibo, and plans to launch it in the U.S. in two-three months as a rival to Twitter, Chinese tech blog Techweb said, citing informed sources.

Microsoft sent the media an invitation to a roll-out event for Office 365, scheduled on June 28 at Skylight Soho, the same studio that hosted Microsoft's Windows 7 launch in 2009.

With a slew of Android phones set to hit market, why is Apple apparently passing up WWDC platform to announce iPhone 5? Also why is it not dealing a sucker punch to Android by announcing superior features iPhone fans have been waiting for? A slew of Android devices slated to hit market this summer have superior features like 4G, NFC and ultra-high resolution cameras.

View some of the never-before-seen pictures of Titanic before it sank, the shipwreck and more.

NASA space shuttle Atlantis is at the Launch Pad 39A, getting ready for its targeted July 8 launch to the International Space Station, which will close 30 years of space shuttle program.