From X-bit Labs: Unlike video game consoles and tablets by Amazon or Google, which from time to time are sold at a loss, Microsoft Corp.’s Surface media tablet with Windows RT operating system costs to manufacture a lot less than it is sold for in retail. In terms of its size...

From X-bit Labs: Microprocessor unit market share of Advanced Micro Devices dropped below 17% for the first time in several years as a result of PC market shrink, strong competition from Intel Corp.’s as well as weak product lineup in the third quarter of 2012, according to Mercury...

From CNET News.com: For the D5200, Nikon took the body of the D5100 but significantly updated the inside. That includes a new, higher-resolution CMOS sensor, and the same new autofocus and metering systems that debuted in the D600. Though announced in Europe and slated to ship there...

From DailyTech: Last month, Best Buy jumped the gun a bit with pricing for the new Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 device. At the time, the electronics retailer listed pricing for the smartphone at $149 with a new two-year contract.

However, AT&T has just officially opened up the...

From DailyTech: Today, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) announced the Opteron 6300 Series, code-named Abu Dhabi. Equipped with a Piledriver core, the new chips serve as an enhanced replacement to the Bulldozer-equipped Opteron 6200 Series (which was code-named Interlagos).

As we...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly working on a new performance-mainstream graphics card, which will belong to Radeon HD 7800-series solutions, but will utilize cut-down version of code-named Tahiti graphics processing unit, which typically powers Radeon HD 7900...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. will refresh the family of its high-end desktop (HEDT) central processing units with Core i7-3970X Extreme chip on November 16, 2012, a source with knowledge of the company’s plan told X-bit labs. The new chip will be the fastest desktop offering from...

From CNET News.com: If Twitter receives a complaint that a tweet has breached copyright, the site will now transparently display a notice explaining why the tweet was pulled instead of just yanking the infringing tweet.

A policy shift will now see infringing tweets replaced with a...

From CNET News.com: HP has increased its investment in the Linux Foundation.

The organization, which aims at increasing adoption of Linux across the world, announced today that HP has decided to upgrade its Linux Foundation membership from Gold to Platinum. By doing so, HP will now...

From DailyTech: Apple may be basking in glory of the iPhone 5, but Samsung has a heavyweight champion of its own in the smartphone sector. Samsung this weekend announced that it has shipped 30 million of its latest flagship smartphone: the Galaxy S III.

The Galaxy S III has only...