From EETimes: At least four different approaches to wireless charging are vying to power billions of next-generation mobile devices. Today only one has a beachhead in about a million systems: the Wireless Power Consortium's Qi inductive charging technology.

By 2018, analysts say, the race will be...

From TechHive: The bandwidth savings app Opera Max is now open to all interested Android users in the U.S. and Western Europe. Opera recently announced it was accepting pre-registration for a public beta version of Max following a limited beta period that began in December.

Opera Max is supposed...

From DailyTech: HTC has been coming up with new strategies in hopes of reversing its current financial position, and the latest effort looks to be enhanced customer service.

According to The Verge, HTC will offer one free screen replacement on select models within the first six months of ownership...

From X-bit Labs: Tizen Association, an industry consortium that supports the development of an open source Tizen software platform and operating system, has announced that it had been joined by fifteen additional members. The new members will contribute to Tizen’s eco-system, but the question is...

From EETimes: A math professor's observation mushroomed into a startup with two demo chips and three standards efforts. Kandou Bus aims to drive a broad range of chip-to-chip and backplane interconnects down to picojoules/bit rates measured in single digits.

The idea for the company came when a...

From PC World: The GPU arms race is usually about frames per second: Which video card can churn out triple-A games such as Battlefield 4 at the fastest clip? So when AMD and Nvidia announce a new GPU architecture, they often lead with their top gun and fill in the lower-priced slots down the road...

From DailyTech: Sony has offered up some new statistics on how well the PlayStation 4 game console is selling. Sony says that since the PS4 launched last year, over 5.3 million units have been sold. The sales stats are accurate as of February 8, 2014, and best Sony’s “5 million in 5 months” figure...

From X-bit Labs: SanDisk Corp., one of the world’s largest producers of NAND flash-based devices, this week introduced special Secure Digital (SD) memory cards designed specifically for the latest cameras that can record video in 4K resolution (3840*2160 and similar). The new SanDisk Extreme PRO...

From EETimes: The Silicon Valley venture capitalists who once nurtured the semiconductor industry have almost all moved on to greener pastures in web startups, so it's not entirely clear what will be the source of tomorrow's chip innovations.

That was the conclusion of a panel of veteran...

From PC World: LG Electronics has introduced the third generation of its low-end L series, with three new smartphones that all run Android 4.4 or KitKat.

The South Korean company has a history of launching its products ahead of Mobile World Congress, and this year is no different. Last week, the G...