T-Mobile to End Smartphone Subsidies

From DailyTech: Deutsche Telekom announced yesterday that T-Mobile would begin selling Apple devices next year. T-Mobile CEO John Legere went on to confirm that the iPhone would be among the Apple products the wireless company will sell next year. However, he is warning that T-Mobile...

Some Parts of Apple Settlement Pact With HTC Made Public

From DailyTech: Thanks to the pending lawsuit between Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) and Apple, Inc. (AAPL), round two in the smartphone maker pair's legal war, some details of HTC Corp.'s (TPE:2498) (and subsidiary S3 Graphics') licensing truce with Apple have gone...

Hitachi to Cease Chip Manufacturing by Early 2014

From X-bit Labs: Hitachi on Friday announced the decision to discontinue the manufacturing of semiconductors for information and telecommunication hardware. Hitachi will terminate the manufacture of semiconductor integrated circuits currently performed by the micro device division...

AMD Further Reduces Chip Orders to Globalfoundries as Demand Slows

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said that it had successfully amended its wafer supply agreement (WSA) with Globalfoundries. In the second amendment of the WSA this year, AMD reduces its purchase commitments to Globalfoundries and established fixed pricing and...

Nvidia's GeForce Experience aims to streamline PC gaming

From CNET News.com: Nvidia wants its new GeForce Experience software to help gamers navigate the technical hurdles common to playing games on a computer. It's easy to see how it could become something more.

In closed beta as of today, the GeForce Experience presently offers two core...

Some Mac Production Coming to U.S. Next Year

From DailyTech: In an extensive interview with Businessweek, which was released today, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that some Mac production would be moved to the United States in 2013.

Earlier this week, a report from CNN Money revealed an iMac purchase with the label "Computer...

AMD Vows Not to Drop Microprocessor Sockets in Next Two Years

From X-bit Labs: As the rumours about Intel Corp.’s plan to abandon microprocessor sockets in the future mainstream desktop platforms emerge and then get partly denied, Advanced Micro Devices promised to continue using sockets for its chips for at least another two years. Considering...

Intel Readies Ivy Bridge Processors with 7W - 13W Power Consumption

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to enable even slimmer notebooks (ultrabooks) and business-oriented tablets, Intel Corp. will release Core i-series and Pentium-series “Ivy Bridge” processors with thermal design power of just 10W or 13W. Makers of actual computers will be able to further...

Nokia puts color first with new Lumia 620 Windows phone

From CNET News.com: Nokia announced a new lower-end Windows Phone today, the $249 Lumia 620, hoping customers will be drawn to its rounded corners and bright colors when it launches in January of 2013.

The Lumia 620 is a 3G model with a 3.8-inch screen, 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4...

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