From EETimes: Toshiba America Electronic Components announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that its universal flash storage (UFS) implementation will be added to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 802 chipset. UFS version 2.0 products will go into production for smartphones and tablets in the second...

From PC World: Valve is fomenting a revolution in the gaming industry with its Linux-based SteamOS game-oriented operating system. The battle cry: Give us a truly open PC-gaming architecture!

And at an event Monday night, the game developer announced that some of the biggest names in the boutique...

From DailyTech: The latest metrics for the Pc industry are in form research firm Gartner. Gartner shows that the global PC industry declined 6.9% in Q4 2013. That marks the worst decline in the history of the PC market. The upside for the PC industry is that industry analysts think we have reached...

From X-bit Labs: Ultra-high-definition (UHD) televisions with 4K (3840*2160) resolution are several years before adoption by the mainstream market. However, consumer electronics companies are already showcasing TVs with 8K (7680*4320) panels that are expected to make their debut only sometimes in...

From InfoWorld: Windows Phone 8.1, expected to launch in the spring, will be backwards compatible to Windows Phone 8.0, contrary to some earlier reports from industry sources, a Microsoft official told Computerworld today.

That means that smartphones running Windows Phone 8.0 will be able to run...

From TechHive: Not to be outdone by Apple’s use of fingerprint scanning technology in the iPhone 5S, Samsung is mulling the possibility of including iris recognition technology in the next Galaxy S smartphone. That’s one of the hints Samsung Exec Lee Young Hee dropped on Bloomberg in a recent...

From DailyTech: What does Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone 5S A7 SoC and Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) Galaxy S4 Exynos have in common? Well, for starters they both have chips made in Samsung fabs. But another commonality (well, in the case of the International edition of the GS4) is...

From X-bit Labs: Plextor, a leading supplier of solid-state drives (SSDs), introduced its new M6-series family of SSDs at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday. The family will initially consist of drives in four form-factors targeting different classes of personal computers. The drives will...

From EETimes: Samsung Electronics and Rambus announced Monday that they have signed a comprehensive 10-year license agreement extending their relationship and providing Samsung with access to Rambus technology to place within its ICs.

Samsung must pay Rambus $15 million of royalties per quarter for...

From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices is looking to move away from providing CPU-only chips for gaming machines, instead switching over to accelerated processing units (APUs) that integrate CPUs with graphics cores.

AMD for many years has sold FX chips, which are the company’s fastest chips and...