Lenovo in talks with smartphone party for joint venture

From CNET News.com: Lenovo told its shareholders in a statement Tuesday that it's in talks with a smartphone maker to engage in a possible joint venture.

"The Board would like to inform the shareholders of the Company and potential investors that the Company is in preliminary...

HTC Sees More Executive Shuffling, Announces Bullish May Sales

From DailyTech: HTC Corp. (TPE:2498) had good news and bad news on Monday.

The good news for the embattled Taiwanese OEM is that it appears to be pulling back from the edge of fiscal ruin. Its May revenue hit NT$29.0B ($971.5M USD unaudited) versus NT$91.4B ($3.06B USD) for the...

SanDisk Unveils New Extreme II SSD

From DailyTech: SanDisk has officially announced its new line of high-performance SSDs in the Extreme II family. The new SSDs include the U110 and the iSSD i110 integrated storage devices aimed at PC OEMs. The new SSDs are built using 19 nm manufacturing processes and use the SanDisk...

WD Unveils World's Thinnest 1TB Mobile Hard Drive

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital Corp. on Monday announced that it is shipping the world’s thinnest 1TB hard drive, the 2.5”/7mm WD Blue. The drives are aimed at thin notebooks as well as ultrabooks that need plenty of storage space at a low cost.

WD Blue 1TB (WD10SPCX) hard disk...

Microsoft Now Provides Free Covers with Surface Tablets

From X-bit Labs: As some of Microsoft Corp.’s partners decrease pricing of their Windows RT-based products, Microsoft Corp. is taking a different approach in a bid to make Surface RT media tablet more competitive. From now on the world’s largest software developer will bundle a cover...

Dell to challenge Lenovo's Yoga with 11-inch convertible laptop

From CNET News.com: Dell plans to offer consumers its own flavor of an 11.6-inch convertible laptop with Windows 8 by year's end.

Due out in time for the 2013 holiday season, the Dell XPS 11 ultrabook will sport a hinged keyboard that allows it to transform into a Windows 8 tablet...

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 gets new 8 and 10.1 inch models

From CNET News.com: Samsung has released the details for an 8-inch and a 10.1-inch tablet joining the popular Galaxy Tab series, along with the 7-inch model currently available.

In an announcement Monday, the South Korean firm unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 models in the new...

ASUS Rolls Out 7 New Products at Computex 2013

From DailyTech: It's Computex time in Taipei, and ASUS has unveiled seven new products ahead of the conference's start tomorrow.

ASUS announced the Transformer Book Trio, the Transformer Pad Infinity, the MeMo Pad HD 7, the Fonepad Note FHD 6, the VivoPC, the VivoMouse and the RT...

ARM Reveals Cortex A12 With Malli T600 GPU, OpenGL ES 3.0

From DailyTech: While many high-end smartphones and tablets may soon be getting ARM Cortex-A15 MPCORE processors, ARM Holdings Plc (LON:ARM) just announced a mid-range target solution, the Cortex-A12.

The new CPU core design is meant to deliver a 40 percent performance bump over...

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