From Tom's Hardware: We've been hearing talk of a Facebook-branded phone for months. Most recently, Bloomberg cited 'people with knowledge of the matter' that said Facebook and HTC were preparing to launch a phone in mid-2013. However, today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shot...

From eWeek: Microsoft's Windows 8 is not yet generally available—the operating system officially lands on store shelves Oct. 26 –but that's not stopping security researchers from trying to find flaws in the OS. However, those hackers who have had an easy time with Windows might find...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital Corp. on Wednesday reported financial results for the fiscal year 2012 and Q4 of FY2012 (~Q2 calendar 2012). While the company did not ship as many hard disk drives as it did last year, it did earn record revenues and profits thanks to major increases...

From CNET News.com: Sprint Nextel saw its second-quarter loss widen because of ongoing costs related to the shutdown of its Nextel network, its Network Vision upgrade project, and its investment in Clearwire.

The Overland Park, Kansas, wireless carrier posted a loss of $1.37...

From PC World: The day before the opening of the 2012 London Olympics that are expected to light up major social networks, Twitter has crashed.

The micro-blogging site went down at approximately 11:45 a.m. EST Thursday, according to Twitter's Status page. The site was still down at...

From PC World: Apple was denied an injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Nexus and the adjusted Galaxy Tab 10.1N by the higher court of Munich on Thursday, a court spokesman said.

The patent in dispute is related to a "list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on...

From CNET News.com: Google launched its 1 Gigabit per second broadband service in Kansas City today and also unveiled a new interactive TV service called Google Fiber TV in a move it hopes will push the broadband and paid TV industries to deploy faster speed networks at a lower cost...

From Tom's Hardware: Fusion-io and Princeton University recently announced a partnership in which the company would enable customers to use Flash memory as an extension of DRAM. The University now added some more information about the technology that adds to the product and developer...

From DailyTech: The good news Apple, Inc. fans is that Apple is forecast to be the most profitable American company for 2012.

The company's calendar Q2 2012 (fiscal Q3) results, just reported, revealed a 20 percent spike in profits on a year-to-year basis, soaring to $8.8B USD on a...

From CNET News.com: Samsung is rolling out an update for its international Galaxy S3 smartphone that disables on-device search functionality.

According to Android Central, the over-the-air upgrade currently rolling out is described as a "stability" update and, although it brings...