Intel on Tuesday reported strong earnings for the second quarter of fiscal 2010, buoyed by strong microprocessor sales in the server segment.

Intel's latest microprocessor family, code-named Sandy Bridge, will start rolling off production lines faster than expected due to rave reviews by customers, the company's CEO said Tuesday.

Consumer Reports magazine today said it won't recommend Apple's iPhone 4 because of major reception issues when users touch the external antenna. One analyst called the publication's conclusion a "black eye" for Apple.

Apple opened a retail store in Shanghai on Saturday, the company's second in China.

Adobe Systems has started work to bring 3D to its Flash platform, and will preview the technology at the company's upcoming developer conference in October.

Facebook has acquired NextStop, a two-year-old startup that lets people create and share travel guides and recommendations with others looking for things to do in places they're not familiar with.

EMC's announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well as related areas like BI (business intelligence) and data integration, according to some analysts.

Nokia has asked Russian authorities to help retrieve what it says is an unauthorized model of a future phone that a blogger wrote about and photographed on a phone review site.

Nokia is selling off its wireless modem business to Renesas Electronics, a move that could help the mobile giant better focus on phone competition and get rid of a business that may have been struggling.

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to invest in technology companies as it tries to build a hardware and software ecosystem around its upcoming Fusion processor, the company said on Tuesday.

China has hit back at the European Commission over an investigation into allegations of hardware dumping.

One of Singapore's biggest banks suffered a major IT outage on Monday that took down its computer systems for seven hours.

Malicious hackers attacked Google's YouTube on Sunday, exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the ultra-popular video sharing site, hitting primarily sections where users post comments.

And lo, Cupertino speaks at last. Responding to numerous complaints and criticisms about poor cell signal reception on the iPhone 4, Apple has issued a letter on its Website saying that the fault is due not to hardware design, but to the algorithm used to calculate bars of reception.

Dell is purchasing Scalent, a provider of server-virtualization management software, Dell announced on Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday finalized its acquisition of Palm and confirmed it will use the company's WebOS in future tablets and netbooks.

Cisco on Tuesday announced the Cius tablet, a handheld device designed to help users run business applications and communicate in real time.

Hearsay in recent days that Google is working hard on a project to better compete against Facebook has captured the attention of industry observers, who wonder what shape this initiative might take and what is its likelihood of success.

SAP is segmenting its emerging cloud-computing strategy across multiple development platforms, including one code-named "River," which will support lightweight extensions to its on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

Network operator TeliaSonera plans to start shipping the world's first dual-mode modem for LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and 3G mobile networks on Wednesday.