From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Texas Instruments' cable modem product line. The purchase enhances Intel's focus on the cable industry and related consumer electronics (CE) market segments, where the company's expertise in building...

From X-bit Labs: The next-generation DDR4 SDRAM memory will bring rather ultimate performance improvements to both desktops and laptops as well as servers and workstations. But the new performance heights will demand a rather radical change to topology of memory sub-system.

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From X-bit Labs: Just about three months after BFG Technologies announced its plans to exit from the graphics cards business, the company started to quietly deny warranty repairs and replacements. Apparently, the company is liquidating its business in general, which means that...

From Tom's Hardware: Rambus and Nvidia lsat week announced they have signed a patent license agreement related to certain memory controllers.

Under the agreement, Rambus has granted Nvidia a patent license for certain memory controllers at a 1 percent royalty rate for SDR memory...

From InfoWorld: Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform.

Oracle's lawsuit is a disappointing and "baseless" attack not only against Google but also against...

From PC World: Earlier this year Samsung unveiled plans for an Android-based Galaxy tablet PC to launch by the end of the year. New details are emerging now, and it appears that Samsung may launch the device in a few weeks at the IFA 2010 consumer electronics show in Berlin.

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From PC World: Oracle's suit against Google has one clear winner: Microsoft. With Google's Android tied up in litigation, and Oracle becoming the latest villain in the open source community, Microsoft has a chance to make inroads in the mobile market and elsewhere.

Oracle is suing...

From CNET News.com: Dell is set to acquire storage specialist 3Par for about $1.15 billion to beef up its enterprise cloud offerings, the tech giant announced Monday.

3Par, founded in 1999, offers highly virtualized storage arrays designed to help businesses treat storage as a...

From CNET News.com: In yet another small acquisition, Facebook has bought Chai Labs, several sources said.

BoomTown could not confirm the price for the purchase of the content-focused start-up, but it is likely to be under $10 million and more focused on acquiring talent.

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From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. formed its Microsoft Game Studios publisher back in 2002, about the same time it released its Xbox game console, in order to provide exclusive content for the new video game system. It looks like months before the launch of Windows Phone 7 operating...