From DailyTech: Earlier this week, market research firm Canalys reported that Google's Android OS is the top player in the U.S. smartphone market. Canalys' research indicated that Android OS commands 34 percent of the market, while RIM and Apple trail behind at 32 percent and 21.7...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has no short-term plans to manufacture Intel Atom-based system-on-chips (SoCs) at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's capacities. Even though Intel itself if preparing a number of SoCs that it will make on its own fabs, it looks like the company...

From X-bit Labs: When Nvidia Corp. unveiled its Fermi architecture first in September, 2009, the firm said that the top-of-the-range offering will include 512 stream processors. However, it released no actual products on the fully-fledged chip. On Wednesday a web-site published a...

From InfoWorld: A pact announced last year for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to go to work putting Intel Atom microprocessors into smartphones, mobile Internet devices, and other gadgets looks to remain on hold for a while.

The agreement between the two companies was...

From PC World: Acer, one of the world's top three PC vendors, reported a decline in revenue in the second quarter compared to the first quarter as the value of the euro fell.

The company's preliminary results for the second quarter showed revenue rose 26 percent year-on-year to NT...

From DailyTech: It's been a busy week for smartphone aficionados when it comes to software updates. The iPhone 4 was jailbroken by the iPhone Dev Team over the weekend and both the HTC EVO 4G and the original Motorola Droid were updated to Android 2.2.

Now it's time for a second...

From DailyTech: Earlier this week, HTC EVO 4G owners were ecstatic to learn that Android 2.2 is now available for their smartphones. Now, owners of the original Motorola Droid are able to get in on the Android 2.2 lovin'.

The Android 2.2 update appears to be rolling out now for some...

From CNET News.com: Wall Street didn't have high expectations for AOL's quarterly earnings--after all, one of the company's executives exclaimed at a conference last week that "we have a big f-ing problem!"--but the Internet service provider turned new-media conglomerate still failed...

From CNET News.com: In October 2006, security researcher H.D. Moore discovered a serious problem with the way applications running on Windows display rich text content.

He reported the vulnerability to Microsoft and nearly four years later it's still not fixed, despite the fact...

From X-bit Labs: Globalfoundries said that it would tape out the first chips using 28nm production technology as early as late this year and would initiate risk production early in 2011. It is highly likely that among the very first customers to use Globalfoundries' 28nm process...