HP

Google's popular operating system (OS) Android claimed the largest share with 39 percent of the U.S. consumer smartphone market in the month of June, while Apple's iOS trailed by 11 percent, accounting 28 percent of the entire market, said a new report released by Nielsen.

NASA is scheduled to launch the Juno spacecraft on August 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, in what will be the first of three upcoming planetary missions.

A slideshow that elucidates specifciations and pictures of the top 6 tablets other than iPad 2 which can give Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 a run for its money:

The much-awaited tablet from Amazon, possibly an Android-powered Kindle, is expected to challenge iPad's rule in the tablet market and that's good because competition is good.

Intel slashed its 2011 PC growth forecast to a range of 8 percent to 10 percent, a move many analysts had expected from the chip giant as tablets are cannibalizing PC demand.

As Apple continues to remain tight-lipped about iPhone 5 release date and specifications, Android smartphones, mainly from Samsung, HTC and Motorola, are making greater gains in the smartphone battle.

As the best-selling children’s book, “ Harry Potter” has again taken all fans’breath away. It has been 10 years since Harry was given a life by Joanne Kathleen Rowling, a British writer whose works have been translated into over 70 languages, published in 200 countries.

As the best-selling children’s book, “ Harry Potter” has again taken all fans’breath away. It has been 10 years since Harry was given a life by Joanne Kathleen Rowling, a British writer whose works have been translated into over 70 languages, published in 200 countries.

With Apple's iPad dominating the tablet market, expectations of the iPad 3 release is considered to cement its position at the top. Sony, Samsung, and Hewlett Packard have all released their latest tablets in hopes of eating away at Apple's 82% hold over the US tablet market. The iPad 2 now have seen threats but can the new line of competitive tablets be enough to counter Apple's upcoming iPad 3?

The Amazon-made tablets are expected to run on Android 2.1 and will be powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor.

With the bombardment of tablets and smartphones, the overall PC market has grown only by 2.3 percent year-over year. However Apple has seen considerable growth compared to other PC vendors.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) said it has planned a new tablet HP TouchPad 4G that will be available exclusively in the United States on AT&T. The current version of TouchPad is a Wi-Fi one and sold at $499.99 for a 16GB version and $599.99 for a 32GB version.

The similarities and differences between the HP TouchPad and RIM PlayBook devices, which carry the hope of revival for the respective companies.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has longer-term disadvantages in a tablet and cloud world as Dell is not focused on tablets and is well behind Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) in developing a full cloud stack, Jefferies said in a note to clients.

Cisco Systems Inc may cut nearly 10,000 jobs, about 14 percent of the company’s workforce, in an attempt to restore the growth in profit.

Canaccord Genuity revealed that Apple will continue to dominate the tablet market through 2012.

Companies like Dell, Apple, and HP use DisplayPort, but peripheral and accessory manufacturers sell illegal cables to use with the devices.

Apple and Samsung have had a rocky relationship from the start, but it was always one of necessity. Now the stakes are higher than ever, and the tensions at a new heights.

Apple Inc. is facing heavy competition from other tablet makers. Adding heat to Apple is the news that on July 1 HP released its first WebOS-based tablet, TouchPad. Can HP TouchPad be an iPad killer?

A sum of the parts (SOTP) analysis by RBC Capital Markets says HP is trading materially below its SOTP price of $52 to $55 a share.

HP TouchPad, the first WebOS-based HP tablet that was released on July 1, is set to welcome next month a bigger, more powerful sibling that threatens to blow Apple's iPad away.