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U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Tuesday as weaker-than-expected housing data and disappointing results from Hewlett-Packard weighed on the sentiment.

Wall Street was set for a slightly lower open on Tuesday, pressured by a negative outlook from Hewlett-Packard Co , the world's largest technology company, and weak U.S. housing data.

HP cut its third quarter and year-end outlook due to problems in Japan as well as softening PC sales.

Hewlett-Packard Co will try to dispel fears it faces even rockier times ahead when it reports earnings a day ahead of schedule, with Wall Street expecting decent results as corporate spending rebounds.

In a tightly contested tablet landscape RIM started its journey by recalling 1,000 units of its flagship PlayBook tablet due to a faulty OS.

Tickets for the Americal Idol Live Tour go on sale Friday. This year, the top 11 will be performing live.

A spokesperson from PR firm Burson-Marsteller admitted to working for Facebook in a PR campaign against Google, questioning their tactics in privacy.

The new HP Veer 4G and Samsung Infuse 4G seems to be lying in two corners, one being the smallest yet a cute smartphone while the other seems to define the width of a smartphone. Both these smartphones differ from the standard size offered in the market today.

Facebook allegedly hires a PR firm to slander Google.

Apple may join the ranks of RIM and some other competitors as it mulls offering software upgrades over the air, doing away with the requirement of needing a PC to enjoy the latest improvements.

NASA awards HP a contract to create desktop services and related devices for the space agency’s secure collaboration initiative.

Barclays Capital said Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) capital expenditure growth could point towards revenue upside. The brokerage reiterated its overweight rating on shares of Apple with a price target of $465.

Barclays Capital said Canon Inc.'s (NYSE: CAJ) outlook for 2011 seems like a positive sign for Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (NYSE: HPQ) laser printer business.

Oracle Corporation announced that its president, Safra Catz will be taking over as chief financial officer in the wake of CFO Jeff Epstein's departure.

Dubbed the S1 and S2, the Sony tablets offer drastically different form factors from each other.

Greenpeace says a number of tech giants have dirty data centers, which consume large amounts of energy from non-renewable sources.

German automaker Volkswagen AG unveiled its New Beetle and claims it as the most fuel-efficient Beetle ever.

While major tech companies are on board, privacy groups say the McCain-Kerry bill falls short of their expectations.

Senators John McCain and John Kerry introduce a privacy bill that got mixed reactions from consumer watchdogs and major tech companies.

Hewlett-Packard Co had considered buying business software company Tibco Software Inc until two weeks ago when talks fizzled, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Apple's iOS operating system will continue to dominate the worldwide media tablet through 2015, research firm Gartner said.

Verizon said it would launch new Digital Media Services that would allow entertainment and media companies capitalize on consumers' growing appetite for live and on-demand on their smartphones, tablets and other devices.

Specifications for the device are almost identical to competing tablets: 10.1-inch screen, dual cameras, Android based operating system - with one main difference: its price.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Weyerhaeuser, Nabors Industries, Pier 1 Imports, Qualcomm, Helmerich & Payne, Freeport-McMoRan Copper, Netflix, Bally Technologies and Costco Wholesale Corp.

Motorola's Xoom was crowned the undisputed king of tablets at CES 2011 but little did Motorola realize that the spotlight would last only a month.

Though, Xoom has comparable features and pricing to the high end version of Apple's iPad 2. The question now becomes, will the high end of the tablet market keep pace with the low end?

Cisco is acknowledging that it's made some missteps and is working to move forward and address its organizational complexity, lack of competitive products, focus, and time to market.

Following is the full text of an internal memo sent by John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) to the employees, where he talked about the company's execution issues, loss of credibility and making bold changes.

Google, Facebook and Youtube rank as first, second and third in web globalization, says a report from research firm Common Sense Advisory.