Galaxy S4 tallies 40M unit sales, Samsung says

From CNET News.com: Samsung's Galaxy S4 has reportedly hit the 40 million unit sales mark, suggesting that there's still plenty of love for the 5-inch smartphone.

A Samsung exec said the quad-core beauty has now tipped over the big 4-0, according to a report in Korean-language site inews24 (via...

ARM Unveils New Architecture for Automotive

From EETimes: ARM has unveiled its new microprocessor architecture specifically designed to run deterministic, real-time embedded applications in automotive electronics and other industrial control systems.

One of the highlights of the new architecture -- dubbed ARMv8-R -- is a hardware-assisted...

BlackBerry sees 10 million BBM downloads in 24 hours

From InfoWorld: BlackBerry says its new app that opens up the proprietary BBM messaging platform to Android and Apple users was downloaded 10 million times in just over its first 24 hours of availability.

The free app was launched Monday morning.

Using it, people with Android and iOS can exchange...

10.1" Nokia Lumia 2520 Windows RT Tablet Gets Official

From DailyTech: Nokia has officially unveiled its first Windows RT tablet: the Lumia 2520. The new tablet features a 10.1-inch full HD resolution IPS display that uses Nokia ClearBlack technology.

The Lumia 2520 runs Windows RT 8.1 and features a Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor running at 2.2...

Confirmed: Windows 8.1 Apps Will Run on Xbox One

From DailyTech: While many people scoffed at or failed to recognized the significance of Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) talk of a "unified" development path for Windows, Xbox, and Windows Phone, the real world rammifications of that approach are now becoming clear and they're significant.

A pre-order...

AMD Excavator Core May Bring Dramatic Performance Increases

From X-bit Labs: As Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to launch its next-generation microprocessors with Steamroller high-performance x86 cores, enthusiasts are revealing secrets about its fourth-generation Bulldozer core code-named Excavator. As it appears, that processing engine will support 256...

Nvidia Unleashes G-Sync Technology for Gaming Monitors

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Friday unveiled its new G-Sync technology that solves the decades-old problem of onscreen tearing, stuttering and lag by enabling synchronization between the GPU and the display. The technology will require special monitors with integrated G-Sync module (pictured...

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