More on Personal Tech

If you've been waiting for a discount, it's time to buy: Barnes & Noble is slashing Nook tablet prices by up to 30 percent as part of a limited Mother's Day promotion.

Alibaba Group hopes to make a dent in Google's dominance of China's smartphone market, and has high hopes that handsets running the company's mobile OS will reach sales of 30 million units.

A trifecta of gaming news shorts today, with the most important being about the much-rumored "always connected" aspect of the next Xbox. Never fear, you'll be able to play single player games without being online.

Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a recent job notice.

Facebook last week cited mobile growth as a major contributor to its first-quarter increase in sales and profits.

Two prominent gaming veterans have joined "Android Play Studio" just ahead of a gaming-filled schedule at Google I/O 2013.

Why aren't phone manufacturers trying to sell to the BYOD consumer?

Sleeker, 'flatter' UI design in works at Apple for iPhone, iPad software; September release on track.

Highly functional personal devices are increasingly being adopted as technology tools in enterprise IT environments. This represents yet another challenge for CIOs and senior IT managers trying to use standards and frameworks-based IT service management (ITSM) processes for better governance and business benefits.

The bond between humans and dogs is strong and unique, despite their insistence on eating poop.

New tablet shipments will outnumber laptops for the first time in 2013, as touch display capabilities drive buying patterns rather than new operating systems like Windows 8 and Windows RT, research firm NPD DisplaySearch reported on Monday.