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Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 3 software developer and No. 1 in databases, is scheduled to report third-quarter results Tuesday. Last quarter, it missed estimates and the shares plunged 15 percent, shaving as much as $5.3 billion from the net worth of CEO Larry Ellison.

Gone will be the days when the mainstream tablet market would be just confined to Android and iOS credibility or on the less thriving RIM's Playbooks.

The newest version of Android is called Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich, an OS released back in 2011 and is yet to feature on most Android handsets. The way things are shaping up, many users might have to wait months to get the new update. And in a worst case scenario, many might never get it as this is a what manufacturers have been doing in regards to Android for years. Luckily, HTC announced 16 devices that will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update in the coming months, and hopefully other de...

Apple Inc. -- the world's most valuable publicly traded company by its market capitalization of $545.97 billion -- will conduct a conference call to announce the outcome of discussions concerning its cash balance on Monday at 9 a.m. EDT, which is before the U.S. equity-market open.

iPad 3 has a target on its back now that competing manufacturers know what its strengths and weaknesses are. Just because the new iPad has a super-high resolution display and a few HD apps some people will want, doesn't mean people will pay $500 for it. That's where companies like Amazon, Google and Nokia come in because they have the best chance to put out a far cheaper tablet that takes dead aim at the iPad.

Recently, Nokia staged a comeback in the high-end smartphone market with its Windows-based Lumia phone lineup. Now, it is rumored that the Finnish cell phone giant will be first to bring out a Windows 8 tablet that may pose a threat to the new iPad.

James Whittaker, a Microsoft executive who recently left Google after about three years, posted his Why I Left Google tell-all on a Microsoft blog a day before Greg Smith had his scathing Goldman Sachs op-ed posted in the New York Times. The Smith op-ed has taken the Internet and news world by storm in the first 24 hours since being posted. A London based executive director for the investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, Smith fired off a searing report March 14 on the company's toxic and des...

Finnish cell phone giant Nokia has a Windows 8 tablet in the works that is expected to be released later this year.

Nokia designer Marko Ahtisaari has confirmed Nokia is working on building a tablet computer, but no other details were offered up. A Windows 8-powered 10-inch tablet would be logical given Nokia's close relationship with Microsoft, but that is not confirmed. Ahtisaari did an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio, and only leaked this nugget by saying he spent 30% of his time on the project. If a Nokia tablet comes to fruition, a Windows 8 version could be the best chance yet for a...

Apple iPhone 4S is in cold zone and the new flagship device (iPhone 5?) will be launched in Q3 2012. So, now it is perfect time for other manufacturers to succeed with their smartphones. Mighty Nokia is changing its Windows phones flagship with Lumia 900. On the other hand, HTC is going to debut its One X - the quad-core phone introduced at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year.

James Whittaker, former Google employee, spouted off in a blog post on Tuesday entitled Why I Left Google, saying its social media efforts with Google +, for which he was the head of the engineering team, have been a failure threatened by competition with Facebook.

Shares of Apple hit $600 for the first time, boosting the computer and electronics developer’s market capitalization above $560 billion.

While rumors about Galaxy S3 is gaining momentum, the Samsung smartphone already a set of rivals competing for the same goal of winning the largest market share. The phones lined up are Apple's iPhone 5, HTC One X, Nokia Lumia 900, LG Optimus 4X HD and Motorola Droid Razr MAXX.

Nokia's Lumia 900 on AT&T has been delayed to April, but the date is still not known. We know it will be $100 on contract, but when Windows 8 rolls out at the end of the year, how much of it will be included on Lumia phones? Microsoft is redesigning its desktop operating system to look more like the Windows Phone system for mobile devices.

Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) kept surging Wednesday even after the company was subpoenaed by Washington after two more analysts raised price targets.

If the latest reports are to be believed, Nokia is slated to launch its first Microsoft Windows 8-powered series of tablets in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Microsoft’s upcoming software release, Windows 8, is more than just an updated version of company’s operating system. The newest edition to the PC-based saga represents a turning point in our culture’s media consumption—the inevitable switch from desktops and laptops to tablets and mobiles.

Apple isn’t usually mentioned as a frontrunner in the video game industry, but the new iPad could change that. The quad-core graphics enabled device is gearing up to compete with major consoles, according to Reuters.

HTC showed off the Microsoft-powered Titan II at CES in January, and it could land on AT&T March 18, but will it tower over the Apple iPhone 4S upon release? If the original HTC Titan is any indication, that question will land with a thud because the Titan is already being replaced after less than six months.

Crytek is working on a “mystery project” for PC and console.

Gold prices may have risen for more than a decade and surged in the last few years. But hedge fund manager Kyle Bass' prediction for 2012 and beyond is that prices still have a lot further to go.