From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. appears to have passed Apple in total smartphone sales to become the world's top smartphone manufacturer. Key to that effort has been Google Inc.'s popular Linux-based Android operating system. And leading Samsung's smartphone lineup...

From DailyTech: According to a report by the UK's Mobile Today, Microsoft Corp. hopes to cast a spell on smartphone buyers this holiday season, pouring $44.1M USD into promoting its new Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" operating system. Windows Phone has struggled in sales thus far, due to...

From X-bit Labs: ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Tuesday said that they had taped out the first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The two companies completed the implementation from RTL to tape out in six months using TSMC’s open innovation platform (OIP)...

From X-bit Labs: For many years ATI Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices did not help game designers to specifically optimize their titles for integrated graphics adapters to ensure truly high performance. But the times are changing and AMD confirmed in a recent interview that it...

From PC World: Intel CEO Paul Otellini came to the defense of PCs at an industry conference Friday, while outlining his belief that the so-called ultrabook will do more to meet consumer and business needs.

"Intel loves PCs," Otellini said at Dell World , although he added that PCs...

From CNET News.com: Apple said that it sold 4 million iPhone 4S units worldwide between Friday and Sunday. According to Apple senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller, that figure is "more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days."

That...

From DailyTech: Last week, a four-day outage of BlackBerry services left millions of users with email, browsing and instant messaging troubles, but Research In Motion (RIM) is sending an apology in the form of free apps to make up for the disruption.

On October 10, BlackBerry...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. seemed on a roll over the last month in the worldwide patent war it initiated last year against Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. Its blitzkrieg earned crushing victories in Australia and Germany. But much like the German blitzkrieg in World War II was...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices hopes that Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Windows 8 operating system will work with multi-core central processing units (CPUs) more efficiently than Windows 7. As a result, the company's FX-series chips with up to eight cores will show...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Ericsson may not be the most successful mobile phone vendor these days, but the company will become the first traditional handset company who will shift its product portfolio completely to smartphones starting from 2012. The company particularly pins a lot of...