From DailyTech: For cash-strapped Android phonemaker HTC Corp. (TPE:2498), an inexplicable month-long seizure of its flagship smartphones may have hurt the company's ability to get stock to customers. But HTC appears to be continuing to struggle, to some extent, on appeal factor as...

From DailyTech: Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM) product has been beloved by a small set of fans, but has generally been considered a market dud. A prelude to RIM's troubles in the smartphone market, the tablet was an expensive sales flop for RIM, despite repeated price cuts and...

From X-bit Labs: It is not a secret that both leading contract makers of semiconductors - Globalfoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company - plan to start production of chips using 20nm process sometimes in the second half of next year. Apparently, ARM, the developer of...

From X-bit Labs: Chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices said in an interview that in around five years time media tablets powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8 and its successors will control around 20% of slate-type systems market. He did not comment about AMD's...

From CNET News.com: Dominated by Metro apps, the Windows Store has landed its first desktop program.

Office 2010 is now available through the online store, making good on Microsoft's promise that it would offer both desktop and Metro apps for Windows 8 users. But there is a key...

From CNET News.com: Adding to the growing list of laptops with Intel's new third-generation Core i-series CPUs, Acer has announced the Aspire V5. Not exactly ultrabook-thin, the 14 and 15-inch V5 models are being pitched as thin-and-light on a budget. Acer says they are, "Great for...

From DailyTech: Intel Corp. (INTC) has big plans for x86 smartphones. Its capable first showing, Medfield, demonstrated that Intel could make a decent smartphone system-on-a-chip, even if besting the cream of the ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM) licensee crop was a work in progress...

From X-bit Labs: Although production of hard disk drives (HDDs) is rapidly recovering from the catastrophic Thailand floods that occurred in October, HDD average selling prices (ASPs) are not expected to decline to pre-disaster levels until 2014, according to an IHS iSuppli. The two...

From X-bit Labs: SanDisk Corp. this week introduced Lightning PCI Express solid state accelerator (SSA) cards designed to boost the performance of workstations and servers used in data centers, server farms and cloud computing environments.

San Disk Lightning SSAs are available as...

From PC World: The first tablets based on Nvidia's Kai platform, which is being built to enable quad-core, 7-inch Android devices for around US$200, will be announced in the second half of the year, an Nvidia executive said this week.

"During the course of the second half of the...