Samsung sells 20 million Galaxy S II smartphones in 10 months

From CNET News.com: Samsung announced today that its Galaxy S II has sold quite well over the past 10 months.

According to the company, it has sold 20 million Galaxy S II units (Translate) since the device's launch last April. To put that figure into perspective, Samsung announced...

VIA Outs World's First Quad-Core Mini-ITX Boards for HTPCs

From DailyTech: VIA has launched the world's first quad-core mini-ITX mainboards. The new VIA EPIA-M900 and EPIA-M910 boards slip into the line of VIA's small and power efficient x86 platforms. Both boards use the same 1.2 GHz VIA QuadCore E-Series processor, though other processor...

AMD Piledriver Chips to Conquer 4GHz Milestone

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices disclosed at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) that in order to increase clock-speeds of its forthcoming microprocessors based on Piledriver micro-architecture, it will use a new resonant clock mesh technology developed...

Microsoft Complains to the EU About Motorola Mobility

From PC World: Microsoft has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility for alleged abuse of essential patents.

Microsoft Deputy General Counsel, Dave Heiner, said on his blog on Wednesday that Motorola was attempting to block sales of Windows...

Verizon customers hit by another 4G LTE outage

From CNET News.com: Verizon's 4G services continue to suffer growing pains with yet another outage being reported by users in several different states.

A few customers in Michigan, Arizona, and Virginia so far have posted messages about outages via the Verizon discussion forums...

Nokia Prepares Budget Lumia 610, Mysterious Pure Announcement

From DailyTech: Past reports from other sources hint at a sub-$160 price, off contract, which would make the phone half as expensive as the Lumia 710, which retails for $315 USD off contract.

The new phone is expected to run Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) new Windows Phone Tango release...

New Qualcomm CPU's Real World Performance is Insane

From DailyTech: Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) impressed at the 2012 Consumer Electronic Show in January. At the show it talked about its transition down to the 28 nm node (via Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp., Ltd.'s (TPE:2330) new processes) and pushing Snapdragon 4 (S4) system-on...

AMD Unleashes Affordable Graphics Core Next Radeon HD 7700 Family.

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has introduced a new series of inexpensive graphics cards aimed at mainstream personal computers. The new family of AMD Radeon HD 7700-series is based on the latest DirectX 11.1-class GCN (graphics core next) "Southern Islands" architecture and...

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