Android continued to increase its dominance of the smartphone market during the second quarter, powered by Samsung's success. Competitor Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers held out for the next iteration of the iPhone, Gartner said Tuesday.

Facebook on Monday continued its latest spending spree by agreeing to pay Microsoft about $550 million for some 650 former AOL patents and patent applications.

While IBM continues to financially excel at selling software and systems, its hardware revenue for the past three months has been sluggish, according to the latest quarterly results posted by IBM on Tuesday. The hardware results didn't help the company's overall revenue, which was flat for the quarter.

AOL will continue to hold a significant patent portfolio of over 300 patents.

Huawei said its rejection is a setback but it will continue to offer security services the chance to review its hardware and software.

Twitter said the platform Posterous Spaces will continue to operate without interruption.

Yahoo continues its efforts to restructure, shedding its board chairman and three members.

Large customers are willing to enter into long-term agreements to ensure supply continuity.

Last year was a record setter, and growth will continue thanks to lower pricing and shortages following Thai floods.

The researchers found that HP's discontinued TouchPad sold better than Samsung's tablets.

Microsoft fools analysts and reports better-than-expected quarterly revenue.

Hewlett-Packard said it will manufacture more TouchPads in response to "stunning" demand following the company's decision to discontinue the tablets.

Jobs will continue with the company as chairman of the board.

A group of developers plans to port Android to the HP TouchPad, which is being discontinued by HP.

Google's revenue and profit grew in the second quarter, as the company's core search advertising business continued to perform very well.

Whether they are cloud service outages or natural disasters, cloud computing can be both a nightmare or a savior to your IT organization: either it halts your business operation or loses your data, or it allows you to continue operate your business as workloads are switched to or backed up by physically safer data centers.

The hacker group continues its online rampage.

Dell is reporting some success in its struggle to retool itself as a cloud and enterprise services provider, even as the company's consumer business continues to decline.

Microsoft will integrate Skype's calling features into many of its key products, including Office, the Xbox and its Windows Phone software, but it will it will also continue to offer Skype for competing platforms, CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday.

IBM on Tuesday reported quarterly sales growth across all its major divisions and raised its earnings outlook for the full year, the latest sign that business spending in the IT sector continues to recover.