From DailyTech: Google Inc. (GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) have had their say in a patent case playing out in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Federal Judge James Robart presided over the case, which wrapped up this week and is expected to give a ruling...

From X-bit Labs: As personal computers become smaller, their flexibility is decreasing. According to a media report starting from code-named Broadwell generation of processors, Intel Corp. will only offer mainstream desktop chips in BGA packaging, which will eliminate upgrade options...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to better serve its fabless clients from the U.S., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. may build a new fab in the country, according to certain indirect indications and rumours. In case TSMC actually builds a multi-billion fab in the New York state, it...

From CNET News.com: AT&T has loosened its grip on FaceTime availability.

The mobile carrier has reportedly started rolling out FaceTime access to those who own the iPhone 4S and have grandfathered unlimited data plans, according to Macrumors, which discovered reports from users in...

From DailyTech: With the massive popularity of Apple's iPhone, you would think every carrier in the United States would want the device on their network. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint offer the iPhone, as do several smaller regional carriers. However, T-Mobile isn’t officially on the iPhone...

From DailyTech: When it comes to computing there are several things that enthusiasts can never get enough of. One of those things is storage; we can always use more storage space. Western Digital has announced that it has added a new 4 TB capacity drive to its line of Black hard...

From X-bit Labs: Sales of Hewlett-Packard’s business-critical servers (BCS), such as Superdome and Integrity, were slightly up in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 (ended October 31, 2012), but still remained on very low levels and were down year-over-year as a result of...

From X-bit Labs: Fujitsu and Oracle, two companies developing central processing units for mission-critical servers based on SPARC architecture will reveal additional details about their upcoming sixteen-core chips at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference next February...

From CNET News.com: HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou said today that he was happy with the settlement reached with Apple, and called the estimates floating around "outrageous."

Earlier this month, Apple and HTC struck a 10-year cross-licensing agreement, putting to bed a long-running...

From DailyTech: Intel and Creative Technology have announced a new deal that is worth $50 million. Creative Technology will be licensing its chip technology to Intel and selling Intel its UK subsidiary ZiiLabs Limited. Intel would be paying $20 million to license high-performance GPU...