From InfoWorld: Its taken five years but changes to patent legislation have finally passed into law.

The Patents Bill passed its third reading yesterday, 117 to four, with only the Maori Party and Mana dissenting. The Bill had been introduced by Labour in 2008.

There was wide...

From CNET News.com: Samsung could give in to cries for metal housing in its next-generation Galaxy S5.

With the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 ready to make its formal debut at IFA next week, the rumor mill is already moving onto that other big thing, the Galaxy S line. According to a recent...

From CNET News.com: Twitter assured users that a reported hack Tuesday did not breach user data.

After the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group boasted that it took control of Twitter's domain, Twitter noted in a status update that the only thing affected during the incident was...

From DailyTech: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that even as struggling Canadian phonemaker BlackBerry Ltd. (TSE:BB) creeps ever closer to death, the company is reportedly looking to strengthen and spin off one of its few products that remains popular.

With BlackBerry sales...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it had hit an important milestone for Windows 8.1 operating system. The company has started releasing Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 to its hardware partners. Microsoft partners are finalizing work on their Windows 8.1-based products...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has reportedly finalized its plans for the next two years. Unfortunately, instead of accelerating release of new high-performance products, the company decided to take conservative road and delay introduction of already known products...

From DailyTech: Samsung and Google have already conquered the adult world when it comes to smartphone and tablet sales, so the pair will now attempt to provide child-friendly gadgets.

Samsung announced today that it is offering a tablet for children called "Galaxy Tab 3 Kids." It...

From DailyTech: Sony has unveiled a new digital camera that fits into its interchangeable lens series. The camera has the looks of a Sony D-SLR unit, but isn’t actually a D-SLR. Sony describes the a3000 as an entry-level interchangeable lens camera combining the capability of a more...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs), and Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center and storage systems, have collaborated together to deliver...

From X-bit Labs: As the launch of next-generation AMD Radeon graphics cards is approaching, the rumours about Nvidia Corp.’s intention to release more competing solutions also begin to mount. According to the latest bits of unofficial information, Nvidia mulls release of more...