From EETimes: IBM has licensed a set of five ARM cores for use in communications ASICs it makes for its semiconductor customers. The move is a milestone in the shift toward the ARM architecture in communications.

IBM licensed the ARM Cortex-A15, A12, A7, and M4 processors, as well as the Mali-450...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp., the world’s third largest maker of hard drives, has introduced its MQ02ABF-series hard drives for laptops, the company’s first 2.5”/7mm dual-platter HDDs. The drives will provide 750GB and 1TB storage capacities and will join Toshiba’s family of mobile storage...

From ComputerWorld: AT&T won't be matching T-Mobile's offer of free wireless data for the iPad Air when the device debuts at the company's stores across the U.S. next month.

AT&T, the country's second-largest cellular carrier, said it will offer a $100 discount to customers who sign a two-year...

From CRN: Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a series of updates to its Windows Azure public cloud, including new data backup and disaster recovery services, as well as expanded cloud development tools.

Microsoft's Windows Azure Backup Service, which stores data from Windows Servers in the Azure cloud...

From CNET News.com: Samsung's Galaxy S4 has reportedly hit the 40 million unit sales mark, suggesting that there's still plenty of love for the 5-inch smartphone.

A Samsung exec said the quad-core beauty has now tipped over the big 4-0, according to a report in Korean-language site inews24 (via...

From DailyTech: Corning is a company that has its fingers into all sorts of products. Perhaps one of the products the company is best known for in the tech world is the Gorilla Glass that covers the LCD panels of many smartphones and tablets on the market.

Corning and Samsung have jointly operated...

From EETimes: ARM has unveiled its new microprocessor architecture specifically designed to run deterministic, real-time embedded applications in automotive electronics and other industrial control systems.

One of the highlights of the new architecture -- dubbed ARMv8-R -- is a hardware-assisted...

From InfoWorld: BlackBerry says its new app that opens up the proprietary BBM messaging platform to Android and Apple users was downloaded 10 million times in just over its first 24 hours of availability.

The free app was launched Monday morning.

Using it, people with Android and iOS can exchange...

From DailyTech: Apple announced that it is revamping its MacBook Pro lineup. The new 13” MacBook Pro is now thinner, and lighter, and of course is powered by fourth generation Intel Core (Haswell) processors. It also gets up to 9 hours battery life. Like the MacBook Air ultraportables that were...

From X-bit Labs: While Nvidia Corp.’s first-generation Shield video game console has not yet managed to become a success, Nvidia is already working on second-generation device. Since Shield 2 is projected to be based on next-gen Tegra 5 “Logan” system-on-chip, the product can actually revolutionize...