From X-bit Labs: Western Digital Corp. on Wednesday announced that it had completed its acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, effective March 8, 2012, for $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WDC common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion. Hitachi now...

From X-bit Labs: As Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its next-generation GeForce code-named Kepler in action at Game Developers Conference (GDC) and got applauds for impressive performance, a Chinese web-site published an image of what it claims to be GeForce GTX 670 Ti graphics card.

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From PC World: IBM researchers have developed a prototype optical chip that can transfer data at 1Tbps (terabit per second), the equivalent of downloading 500 high-definition movies, using light pulses, the company said Thursday.

The chip, called Holey Optochip, is a parallel...

From CNET News.com: Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors have been benchmarked by enthusiast site Anandtech.

The blog reported earlier this week that while Ivy Bridge's CPU performance offers only a marginal improvement over its predecessor, Sandy Bridge, it shines on the graphics side...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) legal war with the "Big Three" of the Android world -- HTC Corp. (TPE:2498), Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930), and Google Inc.'s (GOOG) nearly-acquired subsidiary-to-be Motorola Mobility -- has taken on legendary status as worldwide...

From DailyTech: There have been plenty of rumors floating around regarding the release of the iPad 3, but we finally now know all the details on Apple's third generation tablet.

As expected, the major new feature for the iPad is the gorgeous 2048 x 1536 instead of the 1024 x 768...

From X-bit Labs: The $1-per-GB price has been for a long time considered as a holy grail for solid-state drives as it is widely believed that at such price points SSDs will start to be adopted by mainstream users. According to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce market research...

From X-bit Labs: After years of waiting, Apple on Wednesday finally announced support for full-HD (1920*1080) video by its third-generation Apple TV set top box (STB), adding fuel to rumours about the company's own TV set, as well as to its iTunes digital media store. Customers can...

From PC World: Facebook was down temporarily in parts of Europe on Wednesday, with users in some countries outside the region also reporting problems.

CERT.be, the federal cyberemergency team for Belgium, said Facebook was hit by a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack.

The...

From CNET News.com: Germany--OCZ unveiled a new solid-state drive here, its higher-performance Vertex 4, and said it'll ship an SSD called the Lightfoot using the Thunderbolt interface later this year that'll be even faster.

Many SSD makers use a controller chip from Sandforce, but...