From CNET News.com: The sun may be in your iPhone battery's future.

Apple on Tuesday received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for powering electronics partially with solar power. (See patent number 7,868,582).

The patent, which was originally filed in 2009...

From CNET News.com: Research In Motion is looking to harness the best of today's Web technologies including HTML5 and JavaScript, to bridge the gap between development efforts for its BlackBerry smartphones and the soon-to-be-released PlayBook tablet.

Tyler Lessard, vice president...

From DailyTech: The days of the unlimited internet plan for mobile devices are ending. Many “unlimited” data plans have fair use clauses allowing the carrier to charge you more or cut your speed once you hit a certain threshold.

The sad part for mobile users is that the threshold is...

From DailyTech: Though iOS 4.3 did not roll out before Christmas, as previously reported, the first beta version has been seeded to developers and is full of new changes.

BGR has been informed of the following updates by a number of developers:

* Personal hotspot capabilities...

From X-bit Labs: IBM and Samsung on Wednesday announced they will collaborate on basic research into new semiconductor materials, manufacturing processes and other technologies. The agreement calls for the two companies to jointly develop new semiconductor process technology (with...

From X-bit Labs: Globalfoundries, a leading contract maker of semiconductors controlled by ATIC and AMD, plans to spend whopping $5.4 billion on expansion of its current facilities as well as on building its new manufacturing facility in the state of New York.

The capital spending...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has patched three vulnerabilities in Windows, one that could be exploited by attackers who dupe users into visiting a malicious website.

The company also debuted a new defensive measure to help users ward off ongoing attacks that are exploiting a known bug...

From PC World: Things just keep getting worse for MySpace. The former social networking hub recently announced it would cut nearly half of its global workforce as part of a restructuring effort. As many as five hundred MySpace employees worldwide will soon be looking for work as...

From CNET News.com: It's been a volatile year for Formspring, a question-and-answer service that saw lightning-fast growth in the wake of its November 2009 launch but also controversy and scorn as it was criticized for harboring high levels of spam and nasty anonymous bullying...

From CNET News.com: In the spirit of opening up Microsoft's Kinect gaming peripheral to more types of user control schemes, the Blitz marketing agency tomorrow is planning to release software that will let the Kinect work with Adobe's Flash, as well as other interface tools like...