Samsung Invests $110 Million into Troubled Sharp

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics and Sharp Corp. on Wednesday announced that the former will invest $110 million into the latter. The money should help troubled Sharp to survive, whereas Samsung will get around 3.09 Stake in the company known for its consumer electronics as well...

HTC sales plunge even further in February

From CNET News.com: The handset maker reported that its sales in February fell 44 percent to 11.3 million New Taiwan dollars ($380,400) from a year ago, the lowest level in three years. On a month-over-month basis, sales had fallen 27 percent.

HTC is hoping the company has hit...

Apple Seeks Out Beats Electronics for Music Streaming Advice

From DailyTech: Apple has been talking with Beats Electronics LLC about the music company's new streaming service -- "Project Daisy" -- as the tech giant looks into a streaming service of its own.

Apple CEO Tim Cook made a trip to Los Angeles in late February to meet with Beats CEO...

Seagate Begins Shipping Third-Generation Solid-State Hybrid Drives

From DailyTech: Seagate has announced that it will begin shipping the third-generation of its solid-state hybrid drives. The new series includes a Seagate Laptop SSHD that is 7 mm high and designed to be used in the thinnest and lightest laptops in the industry.

Seagate's SSHDs...

Oracle issues emergency Java update to patch vulnerabilities

From CNET News.com: In response to discovering that hackers were actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in Java running in Web browsers, Oracle has released an emergency patch that it says should deal with the problem.

"These vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without...

Sony Wants to Be #3 in Smartphone Industry

From DailyTech: Sony has announced that it has aspirations of becoming the third largest company in the global smartphone market right behind Apple and Samsung. To make that job, Sony will have to beat Chinese companies including Huawei Technology and ZTE.

Both of those Chinese...

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