From DailyTech: "Star Wars" will be making its way back to the big screen now that The Walt Disney Company has acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion USD.

Disney said it is buying Lucasfilm Ltd. with cash and stock, and the deal includes Lucasfilm's high-tech production...

From DailyTech: While Hong Kong-based Lenovo Group, Ltd. (HKG:0992) set a tough earnings pace to follow, possibly bumping veteran Hewlett-Packard Comp. (HPQ) from the first place spot in sales; ASUSTek Computer Inc. (TPE:2357) in many ways looked even more impressive, post higher...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. this week debuted Windows Phone 8, the latest version of the company’s smartphone operating system. Windows Phone 8 further enhances Microsoft’s mobile platform and finally brings the core of Windows for personal computers into smartphones and similar...

From X-bit Labs: As smartphones, media tablets and other low-power consumer devices are gaining personal computer-like functionality, they need higher-performance microprocessors that are still small and not really power-hungry. Intel Corp. claims that extreme many-core chips, such...

From CNET News.com: On paper, at least, Google's Nexus 10 is a remarkable-sounding tablet that challenges the iPad on key hardware metrics.

Those metrics would include size, weight, and display. Not to mention price.

"What we're seeing is the establishment of the new high end,"...

From DailyTech: Intel has rolled out a new line of solid-state drives to replace hard drives in computer systems. The new series is called the Intel SSD 335 Series and is aimed directly at the DIY consumer and entry-level enthusiasts. Intel promises that performance, quality, and...

From DailyTech: As has been widely rumored for the past couple of weeks, Google today officially announced two new members to the Google Nexus product family: the Nexus 4 smartphone and the Nexus 10 tablet.

The Nexus 4 (which runs Android 4.2) was developed in conjunction with LG...

From X-bit Labs: Even though the first ARM-based project from Advanced Micro Devices will be aimed at the market of cloud servers, the company does not rule out a possibility to release consumer solutions featuring ARM architecture. In fact, partnership with ARM opens AMD the doors...

From X-bit Labs: DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, said Tuesday that due to the persistent oversupply situation in the global DRAM market, along with the 5% year-over-year drop in shipments of personal computers, caused prices of dynamic random access memory [DRAM] to...

From PC World: Several security vulnerabilities in Firefox 16 are being addressed in an update of the browser software released by the Mozilla Foundation. This is the second time in the last two weeks that the browser has had to be updated to address security problems.

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