From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.'s attempts to lower power consumption of its chips aimed at ultrabooks and eventually at media tablets and smartphones inevitably bring fruits to desktop personal computers as well. Based on unofficial information, the company's next-generation Ivy Bridge...

From X-bit Labs: A new report citing sources with knowledge of proceeding inside Hewlett-Packard suggests that the board of directors and Meg Whitman will cancel plans to spin-off the personal systems group. Apparently, new analysis reportedly shows inefficiencies in the PC business...

From PC World: The hottest new Android smartphone contender to the wildly successful iPhone 4S will be launched by Samsung and Google in Hong Kong within 12 hours, insiders say.

Called the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the smartphone would be the first to run Android 4.0, also known as Ice...

From CNET News.com: BBX combines the best qualities of RIM's older BlackBerry operating system and its QNX platform, which powers the PlayBook tablet, Lazaridis said during the company's developer conference today.

Lazaridis is still speaking, so I'll have more as his talk unfolds...

From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. appears to have passed Apple in total smartphone sales to become the world's top smartphone manufacturer. Key to that effort has been Google Inc.'s popular Linux-based Android operating system. And leading Samsung's smartphone lineup...

From DailyTech: According to a report by the UK's Mobile Today, Microsoft Corp. hopes to cast a spell on smartphone buyers this holiday season, pouring $44.1M USD into promoting its new Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" operating system. Windows Phone has struggled in sales thus far, due to...

From X-bit Labs: ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Tuesday said that they had taped out the first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The two companies completed the implementation from RTL to tape out in six months using TSMC’s open innovation platform (OIP)...

From X-bit Labs: For many years ATI Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices did not help game designers to specifically optimize their titles for integrated graphics adapters to ensure truly high performance. But the times are changing and AMD confirmed in a recent interview that it...

From PC World: Intel CEO Paul Otellini came to the defense of PCs at an industry conference Friday, while outlining his belief that the so-called ultrabook will do more to meet consumer and business needs.

"Intel loves PCs," Otellini said at Dell World , although he added that PCs...

From CNET News.com: Apple said that it sold 4 million iPhone 4S units worldwide between Friday and Sunday. According to Apple senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller, that figure is "more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days."

That...