Stories by Ed Oswald

Amazon has kindled the fires of speculation with its announcement of a press event on September 6, which likely signals the launch of new Kindles, including an updated Kindle Fire. The event occurs almost a year since the introduction of the first Kindle Fire. It's also just six days before Apple's expected press event, where the rumored iPad “Mini” may finally make an appearance and pose a true thread to the future success of the Fire.

Research firm NPD DisplaySearch expects tablet shipments to exceed laptop shipments by 2016, likely due to consumer desire for more portability.

Windows 7 has sold more than 600 million licenses since its 2009 debut, Microsoft said at the Computex trade show in Taipei. The data indicates that the aging operating system is still in high demand even as Windows 8 moves towards a debut this fall.

Facebook might have acquired Instagram, but that's not stopping the site from releasing a social photo-sharing app of its own.

Facebook's initial public offering, or IPO, hits Wall Street Friday, and is one of the most highly anticipated tech stock offerings of the past decade. Everyone, it seems, wants to be in on the action. And it's possible to do so--after the big boys get their hands on it first.

Angry Birds Space has broken a new record: it's the first app to hit 50 million downloads in just 35 days, which is two weeks faster than the previous record-holder, Draw Something.

Some two years after Google first attempted to sell phones online on its own, the company will try once more. Google Tuesday added a section called "Devices" to Google Play--the first device to appear is Samsung's Galaxy Nexus.

Google has been getting all of the attention when it comes to self-driving cars, but such technology still seems to be a ways off from hitting the market. The first publicly-available "self-driving" car could come from Cadillac, who is showing off self-driving technology of its own.

Android critics often point to the operating system's lack of control over apps as a threat to user security, and this is yet again proving to be true.

Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility last month wasn't just about the patents. The Mountain View, Calif. company is interested in the hardware business, too.

The fire sale of the HP TouchPad (and the resulting rush to snag the tablet) proved one thing: if it's cheap enough, they will come. This could be good news for Amazon, who reportedly plans to release its own tablet in late September/early October for "hundreds less" than the iPad.

Despite accusations that it may have altered photos of Samsung's Galaxy S smartphones to strengthen its case, Apple has succeeded in getting a Dutch court to ban the sale of three phones that it claims are too similar to the iPhone.

We knew it was going to happen, but Nokia's finally made it official: the company is killing off Symbian in North America. Nokia president Chris Weber revealed the (soon) death to AllThingD's Ina Fried on Tuesday.

Facebook is tinkering with our news feeds in order to give marketers and developers more visibility. According to the Wall Street Journal, the changes may allow the social networking site to gather even more information on its users.

Search engine optimization companies have started targeting Google's +1 feature -- you can now pay companies to "+1" your website.