Android pushes Motorola into black

From CNET News.com: The U.S.-based cell phone maker reported today that its mobile device business posted an operating profit for the first time since 2006. The company had not expected this unit to turn a profit until 2011.The company, which announced third quarter earnings, also...

Nintendo Reports $24.7M Net Loss

From DailyTech: Since the Wii console hit the market Nintendo has been dominating sales for hardware and traditionally does very well on software sales as well. Nintendo has been hit hard by different factors over the last year that has lead the company to some disappointing earnings...

MyTouch 4G Confirmed for November 3

From DailyTech: Depending on your political leanings, T-Mobile is offering an opportunity to celebrate or forget the results of the mid-term election November 2 by releasing the MyTouch 4G the next day. The news comes via T-Mobile's Facebook page and confirms not only the launch date...

ATI Maintains Lead on Discrete GPU Market - Mercury Research

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, managed to maintain its lead on the market of discrete graphics adapters in Q3 2010, according to data recently released by Mercury Research. Even though both ATI and Nvidia Corp. enjoyed increase in sales of...

AMD Calls New FPU "Flex FP", Defends Dual FMAC Approach

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices continies to share secrets about its forthcoming products that belong to code-named Bulldozer. Recently the company expained in details its new floating point unit (FPU) called "Flex FP" that promises to deliver high performance computing and...

Microsoft delivers Windows 7 SP1 release candidate

From InfoWorld: With little fanfare, Microsoft on Tuesday promoted Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to release candidate status, hitting the last major milestone before the code is finalized and shipped early next year.

The company posted Windows 7 SP1 RC on its site early Tuesday in a...

Yahoo Tests Major Mail Upgrade

From PC World: Yahoo will unwrap on Wednesday a test version of a major upgrade of its Mail service, whose user engagement has been eroding to the detriment of the company's overall usage.

Called simply Yahoo Mail Beta, the new version of the webmail service will feature a revamped...

Sprint adds subscribers but losses mount

From CNET News.com: Sprint Nextel added more wireless customers during the third quarter of 2010 than it has since 2006 boosting revenue for the company, but it still managed to see losses widen as customer spending declined and it spent more to subsidize smartphones.

During the...

White iPhone 4 delayed until spring

From CNET News.com: For those keeping track, yes, that is the third time you've read that headline since June. Apple is saying today that the white version of the iPhone 4 now won't be for sale until spring 2011. And that's after telling us in June that it would be delayed until late...

Sony's Android 3.0-Powered PlayStation Phone Leaks

From DailyTech: On Tuesday night images leaked of an incoming device that will almost certainly shake up the mobile phone market. That device is the long rumored PlayStation Phone.

The photos come from a reputable source -- Engadget -- which claims that they are 100 percent...

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