From DailyTech: Apple sees Samsung in a position of greater control over its supply chain, and seems to be working toward similar goals with a potential majority stake purchase of a Japanese chip venture.

According to Reuters, Apple is currently in talks to purchase a 55 percent stake in Renesas...

From InfoWorld: Yahoo said Wednesday it was encrypting traffic flowing between its data centers, several months after leaked documents revealed the government had been sniffing those links.

Traffic moving between Yahoo data centers is fully encrypted as of March 31, the company announced on its...

From PC World: Intel is preparing a new “Braswell” chip to succeed its power-efficient Bay Trail processor found in PCs besides working on bringing over 20 Chromebook designs to the market this year.

“Last year, we had only four designs on Chrome. Today I can announce that we will have over 20...

From DailyTech: In addition to a few new Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones, Nokia has unveiled a new portable speaker called the MD-12 that's small, yet promises big sound. Nokia says that the speaker is about the size of an apple and has a built-in vibrating actuator that can produce bass when placed...

From DailyTech: As anticipated, the Lumia 630/635 were announced at Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) BUILD conference by Nokia Oyj.'s (HEX:NOK1V) Nokia Devices.

Nokia's strongest traction has been on the budget end. That success hasn't exactly been an accident. While lower-end hardware at lower cost is...

From EETimes: SanDisk has expanded its CloudSpeed Serial ATA (SATA) product family with four new solid state drives (SSDs) to meet demands of enterprise workloads. The new SSDs leverage software to address endurance challenges, particularly those created by write-intensive application workloads...

From PC World: After falling behind ARM in the mobile processor market, Intel plans to go on the offensive by creating exclusive content for devices built around its chips.

More details about the exclusives will be shared on Thursday during the Intel Developer Forum in Shenzhen, China. But Intel’s...

From PC World: BlackBerry will not renew the license of T-Mobile US to sell its products when it expires later this month, the smartphone maker said.

The announcement by the Canadian company comes after a dispute in February with the fourth-largest carrier in the U.S. for promoting Apple’s iPhone...

From DailyTech: Samsung has announced a new series of tablets that come in three different sizes. The tablets all fall into the Galaxy Tab4 series and include versions with 10.1-inch, 8-inch, and 7-inch screens.

Unfortunately, all of the tablets feature the same 1280x800 resolution display, which...

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard has come to an agreement to pay for the sins of Leo Apotheker.

HP on Monday settled a class-action lawsuit that will see the company deposit $57 million into an interest-bearing escrow account within the next three weeks. Upon deposit, US District Court judge Andrew...