From X-bit Labs: Plextor, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media and storage devices, will introduce its new portfolio of consumer, enterprise and industrial storage solutions at a private press conference in Las Vegas during the International Consumer Electronics...

From eWeek: Mozilla is out today with its latest milestone Firefox release, this time providing security fixes as well as new functionality in the open-source Web browser.

The Firefox 26 release first entered beta in early November. From a security feature perspective, the big change that Firefox...

From PC World: Dell said it would join a growing market of thin-and-light Chrome OS laptops with the new Chromebook 11, but the system will initially be available only to educational institutions.

The company did not provide specifications for the laptop, but in an email said more Chromebooks will...

From DailyTech: Just months after an exec called Apple's 64-bit processor for the iPhone a "marketing gimmick," Qualcomm has decided to join the 64-bit club with a new mobile processor.

According to All Things D, Qualcomm has introduced the new Snapdragon 410 mobile processor. It's entry-level...

From X-bit Labs: The first details regarding Microsoft Corp.’s next major refresh of its operating systems have begun to emerge. The new Windows OSes code-named “Threshold” are supposed to bring different systems closer together from a user experience perspective, but at the same time re-introduce...

From EETimes: Increase fiber optic capacity in existing networks by 10-times just by switching to a new kind of transmitter -- that's the claim of a research group at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland). Using sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses, information can be encoded on pulses...

From PC World: Qualcomm paved the way for a new 64-bit generation of ARM processors Monday, announcing the Snapdragon 410 processor that will hit smartphones in the second half of 2014.

Qualcomm also said that it had decided to make LTE a common technology across all of its Snapdragon platforms...

From DailyTech: Samsung has unveiled the very first mSATA SSD in the industry with 1TB of storage capacity. The SSD is the latest addition to the 840 EVO family that launched in July with 120GB, 250GB, and 500GB storage capacities.

The 1TB mSATA SSD uses Samsung 128Gb NAND flash memory...

From X-bit Labs: Micron Technology, one of the world’s largest makers of dynamic random access memory, and Rambus, a developer of memory-related technologies, on Monday announced they have signed a broad patent cross license agreement. As part of this agreement, the two companies have settled all...

From EETimes: According to preliminary estimates from the Semiconductor Value Chain Service at IHS, the global semiconductor market is set to expand revenue by close to 5 percent in 2013 as a result of strong performance in the memory sector -- this following a 2.5 percent annual decline in 2012...