From DailyTech: Embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC) -- tiny chips soldered to smartphone and tablet motherboards via ball-grid arrays -- are a staple of the mobile industry. Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) offered up some exciting news today, revealing that it had started...

From DailyTech: Lenovo has pulled the covers off what it claims to be the world's smallest full function desktop PC, measuring in at only 22 mm wide. Despite its small stature, the IdeaCentre Q190 has all the multimedia features you need for a quality HTPC machine in the living room...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Computer Entertainment said Friday that the cumulative sales of the PlayStation3 video game entertainment system reached a milestone of 70 million units worldwide as of November 4, 2012, less than six years after the platform launched in 2006. SCE also announced...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. is working on yet another system-on-chip product based on Atom micro-architecture. The code-named Briarwood SoC is designed specifically for storage building block (SBB) as well as storage area network (SAN) storage products and will hit the market in Q1...

From CNET News.com: The newest version of the Nexus 7 tablet is already sold out on Google's online store, Google Play.

The AT&T HSPA+ model, which went on sale earlier this week, marks the first time a Google tablet is being sold with 3G capability (or 4G, depending on how you...

From DailyTech: Skype had a security flaw that allowed hackers to access and control accounts with only the help of an email address.

The Next Web learned of the security hole and reproduced the attack to see if it worked. The Next Web writer Emil Protalinski used co-worker Josh...

From DailyTech: Reuters on Tuesday created a stir in the semiconductor side of the New York Stock Exchange when it published a report citing three sources as saying that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), the world's second largest graphics processing unit and x86 chipmaker, hired...

From X-bit Labs: DRAMeXchange, a research division of global market research firm TrendForce, contract prices of DDR3 memory remained relatively stable in November compared to the second half of October. Analysts claim that even with the lack of noticeable improvement for DRAM demand...

From X-bit Labs: Consistent with previously announced strategic plans, Texas Instruments this week announced it would reduce costs and focus investments in its wireless business on embedded markets with greater potential for sustainable growth. As a result, TI ceases development of...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's digital book pact with Barnes & Noble is already bearing fruit.

A little more than a month after the two companies officially formed a partnership geared toward digital reading, Nook apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT have arrived at the Windows Store...