From PC World: The production of hard disks at Western Digital (WD) facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand, has been halted following severe flooding, the company said on Wednesday.

This is monsoon season in Thailand, but the rains this year have been the hardest to hit the country...

From CNET News.com: According to the BBC, a total of 1.6 million of the affected sets have been sold worldwide. Citing a page on Sony's Europe Web site, the news service says Sony's KDL-40D3400, KDL-40D3500, KDL-40D3550, and KDL-40D3660 models, among several others, have been tagged...

From CNET News.com: Last year's investigation began with a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont, Calif., home, followed by a painstaking examination of Chen's electronic files. Investigators suggested at the time that Chen could face criminal charges, and he soon hired a...

From DailyTech: AMD has launched its much anticipated FX series of desktop CPUs using the Bulldozer architecture. Codenamed Zambezi, the 32nm chips represent the company's top offerings for enthusiasts. Bulldozer is the first complete redesign of AMD’s processor architecture since...

From X-bit Labs: In spite of seasonality and activities of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) producers to boost pricing of computer memory contract prices on 4GB DDR3 modules remained flat in the first half of October, according to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce...

From X-bit Labs: Once a supplier of high-performance dynamic random access memory (DRAM), OCZ Technology is becoming a major player on the market of solid-state drives (SSDs). In fact, the company says it is one of the largest SSD supplier on the planet. In fact, OCZ's SSDs are...

From CNET News.com: Though it won't reach store shelves until next month, Amazon's new Kindle Fire is already the target of a patent lawsuit.

A company called Smartphone Technologies filed the suit last Friday in Texas Eastern District Court accusing the Fire tablet of violating...

From DailyTech: AT&T, Inc. hasn't exactly always been the heaviest proponent of Android, instead pushing hard offerings like the Apple, Inc. iPhone -- long an AT&T exclusive -- and Research in Motion, Ltd. business-minded Blackberry smartphone lineup. But with RIM's sales slumping...

From X-bit Labs: ARM and United Microelectronics Corp., a leading global semiconductor foundry, have announced a long-term agreement that provides UMC foundry customers with access to the latest advanced ARM Artisan physical IP solutions validated on UMC's 28HPM process technology...

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard reportedly scheduled a meeting on Tuesday where it plans to try to decide the future of its webOS/Palm business unit that produced smartphones and media tablets. The rumour has it that HP had already finished its "initial bidding" for the unit and...