From DailyTech: Intel Corp. (INTC) has big plans for x86 smartphones. Its capable first showing, Medfield, demonstrated that Intel could make a decent smartphone system-on-a-chip, even if besting the cream of the ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM) licensee crop was a work in progress...

From X-bit Labs: Although production of hard disk drives (HDDs) is rapidly recovering from the catastrophic Thailand floods that occurred in October, HDD average selling prices (ASPs) are not expected to decline to pre-disaster levels until 2014, according to an IHS iSuppli. The two...

From X-bit Labs: SanDisk Corp. this week introduced Lightning PCI Express solid state accelerator (SSA) cards designed to boost the performance of workstations and servers used in data centers, server farms and cloud computing environments.

San Disk Lightning SSAs are available as...

From PC World: The first tablets based on Nvidia's Kai platform, which is being built to enable quad-core, 7-inch Android devices for around US$200, will be announced in the second half of the year, an Nvidia executive said this week.

"During the course of the second half of the...

From DailyTech: Now Lenovo Group ltd. (HKG:0992) and Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) have added to the Windows 8 feeding frenzy with new models of their own.

Lenovo has trotted out a new Windows 8 tablet in the ThinkPad line. The much beloved plain-jane ThinkPads have...

From DailyTech: The 18.4-inch Transformer AiO "desktoplet", unveiled this week at Computex 2012 in Taiwan, is a pretty intriguing product from manufacturer ASUSTek Computer, Inc. (TPE:2357).

While primarily a desktop, it has a button, which will allow it to switch into Android...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday introduced its new-generation platform for low-cost personal computers, such as netbooks, nettops and inexpensive laptops. The new Brazos 2.0 has higher performance than the predecessor and promises better battery life for 18W...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has unveiled the world's highest-performing graphics processing unit designed for notebooks to date. The new GeForce GTX 680M utilizes GK104 chip based on Kepler architecture and features as many as 1340 stream processors in addition to a rich set of...

From CNET News.com: Sony just got an ally to help with its mobile gaming initiative.

The company said yesterday that handset maker HTC had signed on to support its "PlayStation Certified" program with the intent of bolstering the mobile gaming capabilities of its devices.

The...

From DailyTech: In an attempt to increase Google+'s activity, Google is acquiring social networking company Meebo for a reported $100 million USD.

Other specific details regarding the acquisition are unclear at this point, but the announcement of the acquisition was made Monday....