From DailyTech: It’s been almost half a year since Microsoft's KIN handsets were yanked off the market only weeks after launch. Microsoft is now in the midst of a relatively successful Windows Phone 7 campaign. What Windows Phone 7 lacks in sales, it at least makes up for in...

From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company recently reaffirmed its plans to start commercial production of chips using 28nm high-K metal gate process technology this calendar year. Apparently, the company expects revenue for 28nm wafers to account for up to 3% of its...

From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company said that it would build the first pilot production line that processes 450mm wafers in 2013 - 2014 timeframe and would start mass production of semiconductors on 450mm wafers in 2015 - 2016. The announcement shows...

From InfoWorld: Oracle's database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service, the companies announced Tuesday.

The move comes shortly after Salesforce.com announced Database.com, a pay-as-you-go product that is also powered in...

From PC World: Apple is proving once again that if you don't play by its rules (which appear to change on a whim) then you don't get into the iOS app store. This time the company has reportedly rejected an e-reader app from Sony because the electronics maker was not selling e-books...

From CNET News.com: As January came and went, those hoping for Netflix on the Boxee Box were once again disappointed.

In an early morning blog post today, Boxee revealed that its Netflix app failed to make a self-imposed January 31 deadline because "we have not yet satisfied Netflix...

From CNET News.com: Yesterday marked an important step toward the end of Internet plumbing as we know it.

Specifically, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two of the last seven blocks of Net addresses that use today's Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). That...

From DailyTech: Microsoft has finally gone public with the "third party" behind the phantom data menace afflicting a "single digit" percentage of its Windows Phone 7 smartphones. That app is Yahoo! Mail (previous speculation that HTC apps might be implicated now seems incorrect)...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. reportedly plans to release a new dual-chip flagship graphics card next month in a bid to compete against AMD Radeon HD 6990, the forthcoming flagship from the arch-rival. The novelty will, apparently, be based on the top-of-the-range code-named GF110...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices claims that power consumption of its code-named Ontario accelerated processing unit (APU) can be reduced to 5W. Such APU can power devices like tablets, but it is clearly a temporary solution and going forward AMD will have to introduce a...