From DailyTech: Apple has recognized that Google is winning the mobile ad war, and has decided to loosen its grip on the iAd service and compromise with marketers.

Apple's iAd service is a mobile advertising platform for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch only. It launched in July 2010...

From DailyTech: Just last week, reports indicated that Verizon was preparing to launch a video streaming service that would rival the likes of Netflix and traditional cable TV. However, according to Fox Business, Verizon is reportedly thinking about purchasing Netflix in an effort to...

From X-bit Labs: The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has said that the upcoming Intel 7-series and Intel C216 chipset families host silicon has achieved SuperSpeed USB certification by the USB-IF. The certified solution includes four SuperSpeed USB ports integrated into the chipset...

From X-bit Labs: SandForce, a leading designer of controllers for solid-state drives, on Monday announced the SF-2481 SSD controller which it claims to be the first SSD controller optimized for cloud computing environments.

The SF-2481 SSD controller features a number of...

From InfoWorld: Intel warned on Monday that fourth-quarter revenue will be lower than anticipated due to a hard drive shortage. The chip maker now anticipates quarterly revenue of $13.7 billion, down from a previous estimate of $14.7 billion.

The entire computer industry has been...

From CNET News.com: Behind the scenes, Nokia is making some headway with the big two carriers in the U.S.

The Finnish handset vendor, eager for a comeback, is testing a 4G LTE version of its Lumia 800 smartphone, CNET has learned. That's despite the fact that the Windows Phone...

From DailyTech: Smartphones have dominated the discussion surrounding South Korean electronics conglomerate Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930). Samsung recently bested rival Apple, Inc. (AAPL) by 65 percent in calendar Q3 2011 unit sales to seize the global lead.

But it is...

From DailyTech: HP has just announced that it will be taking its webOS mobile operating system open source. The company still hasn't committed to further producing its own hardware based around the operating system, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't change its mind in the future...

From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has announced that it had started to build it phase 3 of its Fab 15 which will produce chips using 20nm or thinner fabrication processes.

TSMC began construction on Fab 15, phase 1, in July 2010, and completed equipment move-in in...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said that making special-purpose GPU-based accelerators compatible with CPU sockets makes no sense. The approach proposed by AMD is vastly different from the one that is allegedly offered by its arch-rival, Intel Corp., which insists on...