The Sales Performance Accelerator layers onto Salesforce.com's flagship Sales Cloud CRM software offering and integrates with the company's Chatter communications platform.

The software giant's revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter was up 10 per cent year over year, a result that seemed to buck the sluggish sales trend affecting the global PC industry.

The high-speed NVM Express (NVMe) XS1715 SSD is available in 400GB, 800GB, and 1.6TB flavours, with the 1.6TB version delivering "a sequential read speed at 3,000MB/s.

The leak comes shortly after Google sent out invites for a July 24 event in San Francisco, which will feature an appearance from Google's chief of Android and Chrome.

Brian Krzanich, in his first earnings call with investors as CEO, said he understood that "we've not always lived up to the standard we set for ourselves."

In recent years, Intel has taken a keen interest in developing new user interfaces for PCs and mobile devices, evangelising a panoply of touch, gesture, and voice interfaces.

The Zhengzhou plant in northern China is reportedly in the process of ramping production of Apple's seventh-generation iPhone, which could land in September.

Intel's supposed benchmark victory over ARM is looking shakier with news that the AnTuTu Benchmark for Android smartphones and tablets has been revised.

The hiring push is being conducted "specifically for production of a new iPhone model," according to new reports this week.

Gartner put the unit shipment decline at 10.9 per cent from 85.3 million units, while IDC reported an 11.4 per cent decline from 85.4 million units.

Beleaguered BlackBerry has endured slipping smartphone market share and a crisis of investor confidence in recent years, as Apple and Samsung dominate the market.

LG this week teased a 7 August event in New York to lift the curtain on the Optimus G2, the follow up to the original Optimus G smartphone.

In a video, the researchers demonstrate the creation of bubble-like structures from an alloy of gallium and indium, as well as the use of a pressurised air pulse in a 3D printing nozzle.

Demand for mobile DRAM, as well as for embedded eMMC and eMCP embedded NAND flash solutions, will reportedly continue to outstrip supply through the third quarter of 2013.

It has been dubbed a "plan to drastically restructure the tech giant" as an effort to "create something that is being called 'functional coherence' at the company."

Using the new Windows-enabled pipeline in an application makes 3D printing as near to a simple plug-and-play operation as regular old 2D printing.

In a recent interview, new Intel CEO Brian Krzanich emphasised his commitment to bringing chipsets for mobile devices to market more quickly while appearing to downplay TV-related rumours.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of several services associated with its Windows Azure cloud computing platform, as well as a preview version of Visual Studio 2013.

The company is also going to open Bing up as an application development platform in the Windows Blue update, though details are still murky.

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 update, often referred to by the internal code name Blue, addresses some of the complaints generated by last year's critically panned Windows 8 release.

Broadcom's BCM23550 platform utilises ARM Cortex A7 CPU cores clocking at 1.2GHz and is optimised for Google's Android 4.2 Jelly Bean mobile operating system.

Jon Rubinstein said HP's 2010 acquisition of the company and subsequent shuttering of its webOS product portfolio and future product roadmap was something he regretted.

The teardown specialists at iFixit took the new 13in MacBook Air to pieces before awarding it a very modest score in the repairability stakes.