Apollo Global Management acquires Tech Data for $5.4 billion

Smartphone will launch in Canada with Bell Mobility in the coming monthsrnrn

Multifunction monochrome laser printer aimed at small workgroups and home offices

Plus, smartphone and PC sales and the social enterprise

Time for you to be more interesting and to show interest in others

Intel will ship dual-core Core i5 and Core i7 microprocessors based on Sandy Bridge for end-user laptops and ultraportablesrnrn

HP is delaying shipments of new Pavilion laptops, possibly a result of Intel’s Sandy Bridge chipset flawrnrn

VMware’s free cloud connector plug-in will set the stage for private-public cloud hybrids, the company assertsrnrn

Digital Equipment Corp. founder Ken Olsen dies at age 84

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 560 Ti makes a strong push for the midrange graphics card crown

Plus, HP revamps its new TouchSmart 610 all-in-one PC line and Toshiba’s 3D TVs

HP says it is evolving new all-in-one desktops that could serve as application development platforms for tabletsrnrn

The platform lets developers use familiar Web tools to write apps that look native on BlackBerry devicesrnrn