Ultrabooks with hybrid drives could start at $600

The new devices could appear later this year, with hybrid disk drives helping keep costs low, according to a report.

Dell's fourth quarter just misses

For fiscal 2013, the company says that non-GAAP earnings will top the $2.13 a share mark posted in fiscal 2012.

Microsoft pooh-poohs latest Office for iPad report

Microsoft says a report that it's nearly finished with a version of Office for iPad is "inaccurate."

Microsoft SkyDrive aiming to outcloud iCloud

Beyond tight integration with Windows 8, SkyDrive could be due for a slew of new features and enhancements in its next version.

Microsoft extends consumer support for Windows 7, Vista

Support will now run for a total of 10 years from when the operating systems were released, meaning end dates of 2020 for Windows 7 and 2017 for Vista.

Microsoft Office app coming to iPad?

The Daily reports that Redmond may soon make its Office suite app available for the Apple iPad, giving tablet users access to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

What to expect from Dell's fourth quarter

The computer maker is plunging ahead with a transformation plan that revolves around software. However, analysts note Dell is still tethered to the PC business.

BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 arrives, built-in e-mail and all

If at first you don't succeed, they say. Still, although PlayBook owners will now have much of what they were hoping for in the first version, they're not getting everything.

Thief urinates on transformer, gets burns, jail

A copper thief is jailed for a year after he and an accomplice drain conductors at a sub-station of oil and he then urinates against the transformer, causing an explosion.

Microsoft confirms SkyDrive app for Windows 8

Integration to include Metro-style app and the ability to fetch files from across the Web, Microsoft reveals.

Chrome kingpin Pichai promises Android upgrades

In a Q&A, Chrome leader Sundar Pichai promises the Android version will improve "by leaps and bounds" and says the browser will make Google money directly.

Does your browser feed the cookie monster--or starve it?

Not all tracking cookies are created equal, and as Google just reminded us, neither are the ways in which your browser handles them. Here's what the five major browsers do for your cookie 'problem.'

Ahead of report, FLA chief says Foxconn has 'tons of issues'

The Fair Labor Association's full report on working conditions at Foxconn factories is due next month, but its CEO says the group has already spotted trouble.

Privacy invasion: There's an app for that

week in review Following Path flap, Apple resets guidelines on how iOS apps collect user data. Plus: digging into the spectrum "crisis."

Ultrabooks are underpricing Apple at retail--and they'd better

Prices for Intel-based ultrabooks from major brands such as Toshiba, and Acer remain well below $1,000, keeping the pressure on Apple's pricier MacBook Air.

Mozilla contemplates nuking McAfee

The makers of Firefox say that a popular McAfee security add-on is causing enormous performance problems. Now Mozilla is strongly considering forcibly blocking it.

Microsoft's new Windows 8 logo: This one looks like a window

The software giant continues its march toward releasing its upcoming operating system, debuting a new logo that does away with the flaglike design of Windows past.

Clearwire to have 5,000 LTE sites running by June 2013

The company says it should be able to get an additional 3,000 sites up shortly thereafter.

Faster Chromebooks to leapfrog today's slowpokes

Even for those who buy into cloud computing, the first-generation Chromebook can be painfully pokey. But faster next-gen models are on the way, Google tells CNET.

Microsoft denounces Google for bypassing Safari privacy settings

The company's heavy-handed, but potentially effective, PR assault on Google heats up based on a WSJ report that Google sneaked past Safari's privacy settings.