From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer, a company mostly known for its notebooks and advanced computer components, plans to enter the U.S. smartphone market within a year from now. Moreover, currently the company is in talks with Microsoft Corp. over Windows Phone 8 platform licensing...

From CNET News.com: Nokia today announced that it was cutting over 1,100 IT jobs from its workforce.

The company says that it will lay off 300 employees currently working in an IT function. Nokia will also transfer up to 820 employees to IT services firms, HCL Technologies and Tata...

From DailyTech: Today Lenovo announced a new ruggedized ThinkPad notebook aimed at education use. The new product is called the ThinkPad X131e Chromebook. Lenovo says that the machine is a fast booting and highly customizable ThinkPad built with rugged features designed specifically...

From DailyTech: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), one of the world's two largest PC graphics card manufacturers has filed an eye-catching lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts which implicates four of its former employees and its chief rival NVIDIA Corp....

From X-bit Labs: Sharp Corp. has reportedly entered talks with Lenovo Group over selling its TV assembly plant in China. Sharp dramatically needs money to survive, whereas Lenovo is expected to accelerate push into the consumer market with its smartphones, tablets and TV-sets. So far...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Wednesday announced collaboration with Facebook to define the next generation of rack technologies used to power the world's largest data centers. The companies also unveiled a mechanical prototype built by Quanta Computer that includes Intel's...

From CNET News.com: Nintendo's current corporate structure separating consoles and handhelds will be replaced, according to a new report.

Japan-based news outlet Nikkei is reporting today that Japan plans to combine its handheld and console divisions by February 16. The combined...

From DailyTech: Facebook revealed a new social search feature called "Graph Search" today, which will provide any public information users ask of regarding others on the social network.

Graph Search, which is still in beta, is a search engine that grabs information off of Facebook...

From DailyTech: The United States Postal Service (USPS) could use a digital boost to current times, and it has ideas, but executing these plans is another story.

USPS is, for the most part, thought of as a physical mail-only type of service. About 160 billion pieces of mail go...

From X-bit Labs: Even though Globalfoundries’ Fab 8 module 1 semiconductor production facility is not yet fully utilized and officially has not even begun production, the company has already started to think about the second module of the fab, which is projected to be even more...