From CNET News.com: Global revenue for the world's most trafficked social platform will hit $4.27 billion this year, up from $2 billion last year, according to a forecast issued today by digital market research company eMarketer.

Facebook is also on track to pull in $3.8 billion...

From DailyTech: The prospect of quad-core or higher smartphones excites many, but it also evokes fear. Many already suffering from somewhat poor battery life so imagine such high core-count designs as being Shiva incarnate for smartphone batteries, a destroyer of your pleasant...

From DailyTech: Google Inc. is giving developers their first of the next version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich will merge together the tablet and smartphone branches of Android. This is a drastic departure from the current situation where Android tablets are...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.’s next-generation Ivy Bridge processor will bring a lot more interesting features as initially believed. At the Intel Developer Forum, the world’s largest maker of chips revealed additional details about its next-gen central processing units (CPUs). The...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.'s next-generation graphics core integrated into code-named Ivy Bridge microprocessor will not only bring-in support for DirectX 11 and performance improvements, but will also include support for resolutions that are well beyond full high-definition (1920...

From PC World: Google's share of the enterprise email market currently "hovers" at around 1%, but it will reach 10% within a few years, research firm Gartner predicts.

Google is gaining ground with enterprises that have 5,000 or more seats, Gartner said, naming several public- and...

From CNET News.com: Google Wallet, which will allow people to tap or swipe their phones to pay for things, officially launches today on its first smartphone, the Samsung Nexus S offered on Sprint Nextel.

While several other companies, including credit card giants Visa and American...

From DailyTech: Having recently learned that seven U.S. states joined the Department of Justice's (DOJ) effort to prevent the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, AT&T is now attempting to rescue its $39 billion deal by reaching out to smaller rivals like Sprint and MetroPCS.

AT&T announced its...

From DailyTech: Airline companies have been working to improve in-flight entertainment systems in order to enhance the traveler's flight experience. For instance, Virgin America announced last week that it is partnering with Lufthansa to incorporate the BoardConnect platform into the...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. admitted that systems based on ARM system-on-chip devices and running Windows 8 will not be able to run applications written for x86 microprocessors. Without emulation of x86 technology and compatibility with existing software, Windows 8/ARM PCs will...