From EETimes: Broadcom and Mediatek have rolled out competing integrated LTE applications processors focused on sub-$300 smartphones in their race to catch up with announced chips from market-leader Qualcomm in what are still the early days of 4G cellular.

Broadcom announced a reference design...

From PC World: LG Electronics’ G Pro 2 has a bigger screen than its predecessor, but improved video and camera features are what the company hopes will make the device stick out from the competition.

For LG’s smartphone division 2013 was a good year. The company sold about 46.4 million devices...

From DailyTech: Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is expected to on Thursday officially announce a mind-blowing deal, which would mark the biggest consolidation in over a decade in the cable television and broadband internet market, if allowed. Comcast's bid will reportedly slot in at $159 USD per share of...

From X-bit Labs: Apple and Imagination Technologies have announced that they had extended their multi-year licensing agreement. Under the terms of the contract, Apple can integrate current and future PowerVR graphics processing units designed by ImgTec into its own application processors used inside...

From EETimes: In an effort to grow its presence in the medical, lighting, and industrial markets and gain high-voltage process technology expertise, Microchip Technology Inc. has agreed to acquire Supertex Inc. for $394 million in cash.

Supertex [Sunnyvale, Calif.] is a niche analog and mixed...

From PC World: Advertising is about to land in the Firefox browser, at least for new users. Upcoming versions of Firefox will include sponsored advertising in the browser's new tab page, according to an announcement by the Mozilla Foundation.

Typically, the new tab page includes a selection of a...

From DailyTech: ARM Holdings Plc (LON:ARM) is pushing hard for chipmakers to switch to the 64-bit ARMv8-A instruction set to help it with its fledgling server market push. As a result it appeared to temporarily freeze 32-bit releases, funneling useful technology into 64-bit cores -- namely the...

From X-bit Labs: The chips are used by warfighters in everything from radios, remote sensors and even phones are of very low cost and are pervasive throughout the battlefield. These electronics have become necessary for operations, but it is almost impossible to track and recover every device. At...

From EETimes: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has created a special interest group to foster the adoption of nonvolatile DIMM (NVDIMM), which it sees as the early days of computing architectures that combine storage and memory as a single entity.

Launched during the SNIA Annual...

From PC World: Microsoft's getting ready to follow Amazon, Apple, and Google into the reading game with an app for Windows to peruse e-books, magazines, and comics. The new app appears be part of Microsoft's cross-platform Xbox entertainment services, which currently include Xbox Music and Video...