Wolfgang Gruener

Google is working to further improve the tab management in its web browser.

AMD's no stranger to phasing out brands.

AMD is expected to launch its FX-8300 8-core processor tomorrow.

The flash memory market volume is expected to exceed DRAM revenue for the first time this year.

The Internet was floated a new rumor that suggests that the next Playstation could be equipped with GPU switching technology.

Toshiba will be showcasing a memory card at CES 2012, which is equipped with Transferjet wireless technology.

China has opened its own global positioning system to the public. Called BeiDou, the technology promises about the same accuracy as GPS - about 10 meters - but covers only a small section of the world.

The exodus of key employees at AMD continues.

AMD is improving its open source driver support for its Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" GPUs.

A software developer has posted details about a vulnerability in Nvidia's graphics driver that could allow an attacker to gain control over a user's computer.

It appears that Intel's Haswell processor will launch in early June. According to slides that were leaked to the Chinese website VR-Zone, the product introduction time frame will be between May 27 and June 7, 2013.

Google will no longer allow silent extension installs in Chrome.

China officially launched the world's longest high-speed train connection.

The upcoming Firefox 20 for Windows will include a Windows Media Foundation playback backend that will enable the browser to support H.264, AAC, and MP3.

Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, is reportedly preparing his retirement.

Snapshot digital cameras are going to see the next big upgrade in maximum image resolution with the first mass market 20MP CMOS sensors hitting the market in 2013.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

A late Christmas present from Google: Gmail voice calls within the U.S. and Canada will remain free of charge.

It has taken some time, but the Chinese government recently confirmed and guaranteed that state-owned businesses will use only legal software, including operating systems and office suites.

Game systems that rely on gesture recognition for data input carry a potential for a player to unintentionally collide with surrounding objects.

2012 may have been a memorable year for the PC industry, but certainly not in the way processor makers would have hoped.

Researchers at UCLA have developed a variant of MRAM, which they claim can reach much higher densities and consume up to 1000 times less power than current STT-MRAM.

Desktop remoting is emerging as one of the killer features of Google's Chrome OS, as it allows even small low power devices to connect to a regular and powerful desktop PC and run traditional x86 or Mac OS X apps.

The tech industry will envy you when you are flying high. And it will beat you down when you are already lying on the ground.

There is little doubt that the PC market could use some uplift these days as tablets and smartphones have clearly captured the mindshare of consumers, press and analysts.