From DailyTech: Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL) made a bold gambit when it refused a licensing settlement with Google Inc. (GOOG) in lieu of a trial by jury. That gamble may yet prove an unwise decision. The world's largest smartphone operating system maker (Google) appears to be on the...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group on Monday introduced release candidate firmware v1.4RC, which improves the performance of its Vertex 4 series SSDs. Most notably, v1.4RC nearly doubles sequential write performance for lower capacity models, significantly boosts sequential read...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology will demonstrate a variety of technologies at the SCSI trade association (STA) technology showcase this week aimed at improving the performance of servers, datacenters and cloud computing applications, including the first public demonstration of...

From PC World: Whether the next version of the Apple's best-selling smartphone will be called the iPhone 5 or not, the company apparently covets the domain based on that name.

In a complaint filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Apple is challenging the...

From CNET News.com: Android has staged a healthy lead over Apple's iOS as the smartphone wars continue.

Looking at the first quarter of the year, NPD Group pegged Android's U.S. market share at 61 percent, a jump over the 49 percent recorded in last year's fourth quarter.

On the...

From DailyTech: Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the popular mobile game Angry Birds, is looking to go public in 2013 after a knockout 2011.

Rovio, which was founded in 2003, is looking at an initial public offering (IPO) next year in either New York or Hong Kong. Analysts have...

From DailyTech: Lenovo has established the Lenovo Industrial Base in Wuhan, China, which will have facilities for mobile internet product research and development. The total investment in the new facility over the next five years is expected to be about roughly RMB 5 billion ($792...

From X-bit Labs: The more pieces of information, analytics, expectations or rumours emerge about the Xbox 360's successor, the more mysterious Microsoft Corp.'s future Xbox game system becomes. Even its code-name is not known exactly: Loop or Durango?

Microsoft has ruled out...

From X-bit Labs: The worldwide mobile phone market declined 1.5% year over year in the first quarter of 2012 to 398.4 million, but Samsung Electronics managed to oust longtime leader Nokia to become the world's top mobile phone vendor, according to the International Data Corp...

From PC World: Physical discs took another step toward extinction late Thursday after Microsoft announced that DVD playback will not be available by default on Windows 8. The new move adds another wrinkle to Microsoft's previous disclosure that Windows Media Center, the company's PC...