From PC World: Google is working on an official SDK for its digital media dongle Chromecast, and is inviting developers to the company's headquarters to show how best to use it.

As with smartphones and tablets, vendors are looking to get help from developers to make their TVs and related...

From DailyTech: Two of the smartphone market's biggest powers met this week to discuss processors. UK-based ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM), an architecture company whose titular instruction set is found in 95 percent of smartphones sold today, traveled to South Korea, the home turf of Android...

From X-bit Labs: Qualcomm, the world’s largest developer of mobile application processors, a new Snapdragon 800-series system-on-chip that features vastly improved performance and capabilities. The new processor is among the world’s first SoCs to support video in ultra-high-definition (UHD)...

From EETimes: Sony could actually make a few dollars on its latest PS4 console -- $18 to be exact. That's the conclusion of a teardown by IHS Inc., which estimates the cost of the bill of materials and manufacturing for the video game console at $381. It sells for $399.

The move marks a shift for...

From InfoWorld: Acer's upcoming CEO has abruptly resigned from the troubled PC maker, in a surprise move that will result in founder Stan Shih temporarily taking over leadership.

Two weeks after Acer named Jim Wong to be its next CEO, the PC maker on Thursday announced he was stepping down "in...

From DailyTech: Google has announced the new Google Wallet Card that allows you to be paid instantly using Google Wallet, which is similar in concept to the PayPal Business Debit Card. As soon as someone pays you using Google Wallet, you can turn around and spend the money immediately using the...

From X-bit Labs: LSI Corp. on Monday unveiled the third generation of its SandForce flash controller line, the industry’s most widely deployed flash management technology for driving PCIe and SATA solid state drive (SSD) and flash card solutions. The new LSI SandForce SF3700 flash controller family...

From CRN: Salesforce.com and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) are taking their budding friendship to the next level by unveiling a new cloud offering for enterprises that includes technology from both vendors.

Salesforce SuperPod, a new offering unveiled Monday at the opening of Salesforce's Dreamforce...

From InfoWorld: In the rush to exascale computing, Intel is making a small change that could have a big impact on system design with its upcoming Xeon Phi chip.

Intel on Tuesday promised big performance and power improvements with the redesigned chip, code-named Knights Landing, which analysts said...

From DailyTech: Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V) shareholders voted this week in an overwhelming 99.7 vote among the roughly 80 percent of shareholders who voted to approve of a two-component, $7.4B USD deal to sell or license certain assets to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).

The Financial Times -- a Pearson PLC...