From X-bit Labs: Motorola Mobility was one of the first companies to respond to Apple’s iPad media tablet with a high-end Xoom slate in early 2011. While Xoom clearly was not a success due to Google Android’s flaws at the time, it made one thing clear: the company can develop a fine tablet, but...

From EETimes: Let the battle begin over the so-called “conscious home” -- a long-term vision held by Nest Lab’s co-founder Tony Fadell. Now that Google is inserting itself into that "home" picture, through the acquisition of Nest, a smart thermostat and smoke alarm developer, expect the market...

From PC World: Intel has put on hold a new chip manufacturing facility at its site in Chandler, Arizona, leaving the new space available for unspecified future technology.

The company said in February 2011 it was investing over $5 billion in the new Fab 42, which was expected to be completed last...

From DailyTech: Back in September 2012, HP CEO Meg Whitman declared, “We have to ultimately offer a smartphone because in many countries of the world that would be your first computing device.” After its highly-publicized webOS failure, HP is making its first foray back into the smartphone market....

From X-bit Labs: United Microelectronics Corp., once a leading contract maker of chips, these days can hardly compete against its rivals when it comes to innovative process technologies. Nonetheless, the company can produce chips at very competitive price-points, which makes it a unique choice for...

From EETimes: Advanced Micro Devices announced Tuesday its latest and best PC processor using a combination of x86 and graphics cores, claiming it out-performs mid-range chips from archrival Intel. Analysts praised AMD's Kaveri chips but noted they currently are limited to desktop versions and Intel...

From PC World: BlackBerry will rededicate itself to physical keyboards as the company tries to regain its footing.

Speaking to Bloomberg , BlackBerry CEO John Chen said the company's future phones will “predominantly” have physical keyboards, rather than full touchscreens. “I personally love the...

From DailyTech: According to a blog post by Patrick Buechner, general manager of the Maxis Emeryville studio, the next update of SimCity (Update 10) will allow for city-building gameplay minus the internet connection.

"Let’s get right to it. SIMCITY OFFLINE IS COMING!" said Buechner. "I’ve wanted...

From X-bit Labs: When Intel Corp. last quarter said that it would delay mass production of the next-generation code-named Broadwell microprocessors, it was expected that the new chips will become available only in late 2014. However, a new piece of information indicates that the world’s largest...

From EETimes: After leading a successful charge to bring 60 GHz to wireless LANs, an Intel executive is driving research to define a proposal for using millimeter wave wireless in next-generation cellular systems.

The technology "will play a very serious role as an augmentation of the cellular...