Software giant and device maker Microsoft has recently launched a new ad to promote the $150 discount which it is offering on it 32GB entry-level Surface RT hybrid tablet/laptop that originally came with a price-tag of $499.

Confirming the rumors that LG Electronics is planning to strip away the `Optimus' moniker from the successor to its Optimus G handset, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company's President and CEO Dr. Jong-seok Park has revealed that `Optimus' is being ditched from the company's premium branding, with the result that the eventual series of "premium" handsets will fall under the `G' branding.

Finnish handset maker Nokia's latest Windows Phone 8-powered handset - the Nokia Lumia 1020 - was recently unveiled by the company's CEO Stephen Elop at a New York launch event.

With BlackBerry reporting an $84 million (£55 million) loss for the three months ending June 1, the shares of the Canada-based device manufacturer plummeted 28 percent - or $4.02 - to $10.46 in New York on Friday.

According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Web search giant Google is working on a game console as well as smartwatch; both devices to be powered by the company's own Android software.

With a notably large number of attendees at Google’s 2013 I/O developers’ conference having been spotted wearing Google Glass, and with sessions like ‘Developing for Glass’ witnessing overwhelming response from the attendees, the I/O event this year was a coming out party for Google’s futuristic Glass wearable-computing device.

In a May 17 announcement, the US Defense Department said that Apple devices have been approved for use on its network; thereby implying that the employees of the department can be issued iPhones and iPads in the office.

After having commenced the roll out of the substantially revamped Yahoo! Mail interface in December, Yahoo has now followed up on that move, with its recent unveiling of a sparkly new dedicated Yahoo! Mail app for the Apple iPad and Android-based tablets.