From CNET News.com: The carrier said today that it would completely shut off its Nextel network, which uses a technology called iDEN best known for its walkie-talkie capability, on June 30, 2013. The company will begin alerting customers on Sunday.

The date marks the end of troubled...

From DailyTech: Despite tremendous promise, near field communications are starting to look like "not [ready] for consumption" in their current form. Despite NFC being successfully used throughout Japan for years now, America's try at NFC courtesy of Google Inc. (GOOG) has been met...

From DailyTech: Newly public Facebook, Inc. (FB) is still recovering from a tumultuous initial public offering, and the criticisms and condemnations that ensued over its underwriter Morgan Stanley's (MS) questionable handling of insider information on the IPO. Now the internet giant...

From X-bit Labs: PowerColor, a leading supplier of graphics processors that belongs to Tul Corp., has revealed the first image of its upcoming dual-chip Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 graphics card that is projected to emerge on the market in the coming weeks. The new solution will be...

From X-bit Labs: Renesas Electronics Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Monday announced that they have signed an agreement to extend their microcontroller (MCU) technology collaboration to 40nm embedded flash (eFlash) process technology for manufacturing MCU...

From PC World: LG Display has introduced a 5-inch full HD LCD panel for smartphone displays -- the highest resolution mobile panel to date, the company said on Monday.

The widescreen panel is based on AH-IPS (Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching) technology and has a 1920-by...

From DailyTech: Waterloo, Ontario based Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM) used to be the darling of the smartphone industry. For a time "BlackBerry" was almost synonymous with "smartphone", but today RIM has fallen on hard times. It can hardly convince customers to buy its...

From DailyTech: When Hewlett-Packard Comp.'s (HPQ) bold and ultimately doomed webOS experiment was terminated, many assumed that was the end. But it turns out that webOS had more fans than it seemed and many a blog was written bemoaning the loss of innovative features like "swipe to...

From X-bit Labs: In one of the more ironic developments ever to transpire in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, now bankrupt Elpida Memory in the Q1 2012 managed to outperform the overall industry in terms of revenue growth, allowing it to rise one position to take the...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. has confirmed that it would no longer sell netbooks in the U.S. The company will offer customers inexpensive notebooks and ultra-slim notebooks/ultrabooks to those, who demand low cost or high portability. Although the firm will continue to offer...