Apple made official their plans for the $100 billion cash hoard they've amassed in quarter after quarter of profits that totaled over 13 billion in calendar Q1 this year. A $2.65 dividend will be issued starting later this year with buybacks for the next three years. The news out of Cupertino comes after several months of investor uncertainty regarding cash on hand and the company's plans for the money. Pri ...

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview released earlier this week revealed that there may be 8 SKUs come public release in the fall. Windows 7 was released in 6 different editions: Enterprise, Professional, Home Basic, Home Premium, Starter, and Ultimate- though the versions most widely used and sold at retail were Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. That Microsoft is considering adding a Professional Plus Ed ...

HTC has just announced a major update to its Sense skin for its new "One" line of Android devices. A number of the features were rumored in the months leading up to MWC with a leak back in January, but the announcement makes features like ImageSense, Dropbox integration, and WiFi sync official. ImageSense brings a number of improvements to the camera- shots take 0.7 seconds, the camera detects ambient light ...

Tesla, the company that produced the popular Roadster electric sports car, was just hit with a bit of controversy. At least five Roadster owners drained their batteries to zero and could not recharge. The battery is among the most expensive components of the $109,000 vehicle worth about $40,000. The Palo Alto based company has responded to the controversy stating that owners are alerted several times when c ...

Windows Phone's intuitive Metro UI is one of the biggest gambles Microsoft has made as of late. Based on the Zune HD interface, Windows Phone 7's functionality and ease-of-use has surprised many critics. Of the few Windows Phone devices on the market, however, only Nokia's Lumia 800 is consistently given high praise. The Lumia 800 is a great piece of hardware, there's no doubt about it, but its muted succes ...

  Microsoft's SkyDrive, software that allows for storage and sharing of files, has proven itself a contender in the cloud storage space, thanks in part to products within the Microsoft ecosystem like Office and its cloud counterpart Office 365. Early this morning, Microsoft unveiled SkyDrive's new native application with Metro interface for Windows 8. Also announced was integration with Explorer in Win ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that the long rumored iPad 3 will feature LTE cellular data support on carriers Verizon and AT&T in the US. LTE, short for Long Term Evolution, promises data throughput of 100 Mbps and beyond. The service has already been widely deployed in the US, but has only seen limited testing in the UK ahead of the spectrum auction, expected in the fourth quarter of 2012, that will ...

Best Buy, the American electronics retail chain, is reportedly asking customers whether they would purchase an Apple Television and how interested they would be in such a product. An Apple branded television has been rumored for some time, many of which stem from Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography released late last year. Companies like Best Buy have leaked information on upcoming products through surveys in t ...

Analyst Jordan Rohan of the firm Stifel Nicolas revised his estimates of Kindle Fire sales from 5 to 6 million units for the fourth quarter of 2011, that's a massive number considering Apple sold some 15 million iPads in the same quarter. Amazon released the Kindle in November of last year to compete in the tablet space on cost at the bargain bin $199 price point; Amazon continues to not release detailed sa ...