From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp. Ltd. scored a sales hit with its Galaxy S smartphone, powered by Google Inc.'s industry-leading Android operating system. Now the phone's successor -- the Galaxy S II -- has been officially announced for three of the U.S.'s top four carriers...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics America, a leading consumer electronics maker, has announced that it has surpassed the 60% market share threshold in the U.S. stereoscopic 3D (S3D) TV market, according to newly released revenue and unit sell-through data from market research...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has warned its customers to buy graphics processors, other chips and graphics cards only from “authorized” partners. Apparently, products sold on the grey market may be re-branded and sold under labels of more expensive products.

"Reseller who do not...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has posted a detailed explanation of the new, improved, ribbonized Windows Explorer in Windows 8. In a nutshell, Microsoft is grafting a ribbon onto the top of the Windows Explorer window -- no surprise -- that closely resembles the ribbons in Office and a...

From PC World: Microsoft's Windows Phone has managed to amass 30,000 apps in its Marketplace, despite occupying a mere sliver of the smartphone market.

The app count comes courtesy of Windows Phone Applist, which keeps an unofficial eye on Windows Phone 7 activity. Microsoft begin...

From X-bit Labs: The USB 3.0 promoter group has announced availability of the USB On-The-Go (OTG) 3.0 and Embedded Host supplement to the USB 3.0 specification. The USB 3.0 OTG spec enables portable SuperSpeed USB devices to communicate among themselves when a PC is not present.

The...

From DailyTech: According to Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company, Amazon could sell as many as 5 million tablets in the fourth quarter. But in order to do this, it must sell its new tablet "significantly" below its competitors' prices and have...

From eWeek: Google (NASDAQW:GOOG) Aug. 30 joined VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), OpenDNS, and several content delivery networks in launching the Global Internet Speedup initiative, a bid to boost Internet speeds all over the world.

The Global Internet Speedup is designed to improve the way...

From EETimes: In the latest look down its road map, GlobalFoundries claims it is shipping thousands of 32nm wafers a week, gearing up multiple 28nm offerings for 2012 and planning first customer tape outs using a planar 20nm process at the end of next year.

The company's recent...

From InfoWorld: Google said late Sunday that an attack mounted against its Gmail service targeted users primarily located in Iran, although the company has taken steps to block further interception attempts.

Google discovered that attackers had acquired a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)...