HTC: Low-end smartphones would spoil our brand

From CNET News.com: In the pot of struggling smartphone makers, it seems like a logical move to push towards the emerging market.

The rapidly-expanding population centers make Brazil, Russia, India and China -- BRIC countries -- an attractive point of interest for smartphone makers...

Micron Unleashes World's Fastest DDR3 Memory Chips

From X-bit Labs: Micron Technology on Tuesday introduced its new family of memory devices that are the world's first DDR3 chips officially rated to run at 2133MHz (2.13GHz) effective clock-speed. The new dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products are intended not only for high-end...

Verizon unveils Share Everything family plans for data

From CNET News.com: Verizon Wireless finally unveiled its "Share Everything" family plan for data, phone calls, and text messages, potentially shaking up how consumers pay for wireless services.

The plans allow for unlimited phone calls and text messages, and a bucket of data that...

Kodak Files Motion to Clear Way for Competitive Auction of Patents

From DailyTech: Eastman Kodak Company is in bad financial shape and entered bankruptcy in January to protect itself from creditors. Back in March, Kodak sold off some of its assets for the Gallery Online Photo services to Shutterfly. Kodak continues to hope that it can emerge from...

Sprint Cuts Stake in Clearwire

From DailyTech: Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) was long the majority of Clearwire Corp. (CLWR), a publicly traded telecommunications company. Among Clearwire's recent accomplishments, it has perhaps been best known for deploying Sprint's WiMAX network, which gained the company much...

Apple Reveals Its First MacBook Pro with Retina Display

From X-bit Labs: Apple on Monday unveiled an all new 15" MacBook Pro featuring a stunning Retina display, solid-state storage and quad-core Intel Core i7 "Ivy Bridge" processors in a radically thin and light design. Pricing of the new Apple MacBook Pro will be higher than on the...

AMD Establishes Embedded Solutions Product Group

From X-bit Labs: To further capitalize on the opportunity for accelerated processing units (APUs) in embedded applications and form factors, AMD on Monday announced the formation of a new Embedded Solutions Group and appointed Arun Iyengar as its corporate vice president and general...

LG's Quad-core Optimus 4X HD Arrives in Europe

From PC World: The first quad-core smartphone from LG Electronics, the Optimus 4X HD, is now available for purchase in Europe, the company said on Monday.

German customers will be the first to get their hands on the phone, followed by those in the Netherlands, Sweden, U.K. and Italy...

Apple Store goes down as WWDC keynote looms

From CNET News.com: As expected, Apple has taken its online store down to update the marketplace with all of the goodies it plans to show off today at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

When Web users head over to Apple's online store, they'll come to a page saying the marketplace...

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