From DailyTech: The U.S. carrier market is already slightly odd in comparison to other top smartphone markets like China or Europe. In the U.S., carriers offer deeply subsidized prices, but inflate contract prices to compensate. The approach stands in stark comparison with other...

From X-bit Labs: Worldwide PC shipments totaled 89 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 1.9% increase from the first quarter of 2011, when shipments reached 87.3 million units, according to preliminary results by Gartner. These results exceed Gartner's earlier projections of...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital on Wednesday introduced two new hard disk drives that are designed specifically for ultra-slim notebooks. The company believes that new WD Scorpio Blue LPVT-series 7mm HDDs are the lowest power consumption on the market today, but they still consume a...

From CNET News.com: Google is unleashing a new design for its social network aimed at making the site simpler to use but also easier on the eyes.

One of the first changes to pop out is a new Navigation bar nestled on the left. Replacing the old static toolbar at the top, the...

From DailyTech: Intel has been pushing the ultrabook in a big way for the past year. There've been several companies that have jumped on the ultrabook bandwagon, but none of the machines have been a major success so far. That could change with Intel announcing that 75 new ultrabook...

From DailyTech: The body blows just keep coming for “big box” retailer Best Buy. The brick and mortar electronics retail giant has outlived competitors like Circuit City, but has faced increasing pressure from companies like Walmart, Sam’s Club, and Costco which have greatly expanded...

From X-bit Labs: Micron Technology has introduced solid-state drives for ultra-thin notebooks and ultrabooks in mini Serial ATA (mSATA) form-factor. The new RealSSD C400 SSD are projected to offer high performance and reliability expected from modern personal computers.

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From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Monday held a groundbreaking ceremony at the South Taiwan Science Park in Tainan for phase 5 of its Fab 14 GigaFab. When the factory is completed in two years from now, it will produce chips using 20nm process technology...

From PC World: Nokia currently estimates the company will sell only 12 million smartphones during the first three months of 2012, as "multiple factors negatively" impact sales, the company said on Wednesday.

Nokia will sell a total of 71 million mobile phones during the first...

From PC World: Instagram’s Android app has been downloaded more than 5 million times less than a week after being released. Not bad for a company that recently agreed to be bought by Facebook for $1 billion.

In comparison to its Android version, Instagram’s iPhone app was a slow...