From DailyTech: Amazon is apparently looking to enter the maps business, as it recently acquired 3D mapping company UpNext.

UpNext is a New York-based 3D mapping startup that was founded in 2007. It provides interactive three-dimensional maps of 50 cities nationwide, where enhanced...

From X-bit Labs: Qualcomm, the world's largest supplier of processors for mobile devices, has signed supply contracts with Samsung Semiconductors and United Microelectronics Corp. to manufacture Snapdragon S4 system-on-chip devices and application processors as well as baseband chips...

From X-bit Labs: After numerous attempts to convince PC makers to reduce their profit margins further and use innovative plastic materials to reduce the prices of ultrabooks, Intel Corp. may now be ready to slash the cost of some of its ultra low-voltage microprocessors by a little...

From PC World: Apple will launch OS X Mountain Lion July 25 if it repeats what it did last year when it announced the then-new Lion a day after its quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts.

Monday, Apple scheduled its next earnings call for 2:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 24...

From CNET News.com: Electronic Arts is considered a major publisher in the gaming industry. But soon, it might be a major digital publisher in the gaming industry.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz in an interview published yesterday, EA Labels President Frank Gibeau said that his...

From CNET News.com: RIM is looking to a host of new products to help it recover in 2013, according to details reportedly found in a leaked product road map.

The company is set to kick off the year by launching both touch-screen and traditional QWERTY keyboard phones in the first...

From X-bit Labs: Back in February, Apple petitioned the bankruptcy court overseeing Kodak's proceedings to allow it to file a patent infringement suit against Kodak. Apple wanted to block Kodak's intention to auction off some of its massive patent archive. Apple's argument was that...

From X-bit Labs: Say what you will about its touch reforms, and extreme user interface makeover, but Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is at least moving aggressively to give its customers a favorable price point.

To counter Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) $19.99 USD Mountain Lion licensing, Microsoft is...

From PC World: Firefox maker Mozilla announced Monday that Sprint, along with six other carriers worldwide, will be among the first mobile operators to support Mozilla's HTML5-based mobile OS.

Previously called the Open Web Devices platform (OWD), the mobile platform is now called...

From CNET News.com: Adobe Systems, retooling as fast as it can for a future of Web publishing and Web apps, sees the technology as mostly caught up to the Flash technology that Adobe previously preferred.

"I think it's close to 80 percent," Arno Gourdol, Adobe's senior director of...