From PC World: Profits were flat in the fourth quarter in Samsung Electronics’ smartphone and tablet business, despite an uptick in sales, in part because the company spent more on marketing over the holiday shopping period.

The company’s IT and mobile communications (IM) division, which has...

From DailyTech: Qualcomm has announced that it has purchased a number of patents from HP. The patent portfolio includes patents for Palm, IPAQ, and Bitfone. Qualcomm says that the patent purchase helps to enhance its strength and diversity in the mobile technologies realm.

The patent portfolio...

From EETimes: AMD on Tuesday announced the fourth quarter earnings for 2013 exceeding its own goal. The increased sales of new game consoles by Sony and Microsoft allowed AMD’s semi-custom SoCs and graphics products to make up for the decline in their chipsets sold for notebooks.

The chipmaker...

From PC World: Nokia’s improving Lumia shipments came to a halt during the fourth quarter, bad news for Microsoft, which will soon take over the phone unit.

The Finnish company reported fourth-quarter sales of €3.48 billion ($4.75 billion), down 21 percent year-on-year, and a net loss of €615...

From DailyTech: Earlier this week word surfaced that Lenovo and IBM were resuming talks that could see the former picking up the latter’s x86 server business. Lenovo has today confirmed that it intends to purchase that x86 server arm.

“This acquisition demonstrates our willingness to invest in...

From X-bit Labs: It is well known that the situation with adoption of Microsoft Corp.’s latest Windows 8 operating system is far from rosy. Obviously, this impacts not only Microsoft’s business, but also sales of personal computers by companies like Dell, Hewlett-Packard or Lenovo. A new rumor...

From CRN: While IBM (NYSE:IBM) beat Wall Street's earnings forecast for its fiscal fourth quarter on Tuesday, the vendor missed revenue expectations due to weak sales of servers, storage and other hardware.

For the quarter ended Dec. 31, IBM reported a profit of $6.2 billion, or $5.73 per share...

From PC World: Valve wasn't joking when it warned that the initial beta version of its living room-friendly SteamOS operating system was for experts only. The initial build was… rough, to say the least—only Nvidia graphics cards were supported, crucial dual-booting and partioning features weren't...

From DailyTech: Toshiba announced today that it had completed its acquisition of OCZ. OCZ filed for bankruptcy late last year and Toshiba stepped up to make the purchase. Toshiba now owns all the assets of OCZ Technology Group and has made it a wholly owned subsidiary.

Toshiba says that OCZ will...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. said last week that it was on track to start volume production of its next-generation microprocessors based on the “Broadwell” micro-architecture using 14nm process technology this quarter. The world’s largest chipmaker will start to roll-out new processors in the third...