From X-bit Labs: Although Western Digital had to face hundreds of millions of dollars charges relative to Thailand flooding, the company remained profitable. Moreover, due to increased pricing of hard disk drives, its sales only dropped 19% amid 42% decline in unit shipments of HDDs...

From InfoWorld: Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday.

Dasient, which describes itself as a cloud-based Web antimalware technology company, introduced in 2010 a service to protect advertisement networks and...

From PC World: About one million people have jailbroken their iPad 2 and iPhone 4S devices since Friday thanks to a recently released untethered jailbreak. The jailbreak is designed for iOS devices with Apple's dual-core A5 chip and running iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1. More than 950,000 A5...

From CNET News.com: Verizon just made the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx ship date official. Enhanced with a big battery designed for maximum endurance, Android fans can scoop up the pricey $299.99 superphone in stores on January 26th.

First unveiled at CES last month, the Droid Razr Maxx...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has lost its latest round in its legal war against Android, as signs of a stalemate with Android continue to grow.

All things considered, Apple should be pretty pleased at its recent results. It's managed to charge back to a near tie in the U.S...

From X-bit Labs: Arctic Cooling, a well-known supplier of power supply units (PSUs), cooling systems and other PC accessories, has reportedly decided to sue Advanced Micro Devices in a bid to prohibit the chip company from using Fusion name to describe its chips that integrate x86...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with QLogic to acquire the product lines of and certain assets related to its InfiniBand business. A significant number of the employees associated with this business are expected to accept...

From PC World: An online storage service, FileSonic, has disabled file sharing between users following the takedown of the MegaUpload service for alleged copyright infringement violations.

The company, which lists corporate offices in Hong Kong and the U.K., ran a banner on the...

From CNET News.com: Nokia's big push to re-establish itself in the modern smartphone world appears to be paying early dividends The company may have shipped as many as 1.3 million units of its Windows Phone Lumia handsets last year, says Bloomberg.

Surveying the usual range of...

From DailyTech: From music videos to TV shows to clips of cats playing the piano, YouTube is a place where video enthusiasts and bored Internet users alike can find free entertainment. It seems many Web surfers are finding their way to the site lately, as YouTube recently reached the...