From DailyTech: Microsoft and Dell have penned a patent licensing agreement regarding devices running Android and Chrome OS.

According to Microsoft, Dell agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft for sales of devices that run either Google's mobile Android operating system or Chrome OS.

Microsoft is...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday announced that it has completed the acquisition of Basis Science, a leading developer and manufacturer of wearable computing devices for health and wellness applications. The acquisition of Basis accelerates Intel's wearable products focus and extends the...

From EETimes: Intel's year-old foundry deal with Altera has been expanded to include "multi-die" devices that combine Altera's Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs with DRAM, SRAM, ASICs, processors, and analog chips in a single package.

The agreement, announced March 26, is an extension of a deal the...

From GreenBot: HTC’s latest bid for smartphone relevance is a 5-inch handset called the HTC One (M8), parentheses and all. At a Tuesday press event in New York, HTC CEO Peter Chou announced the new smartphone, stressing smart industrial design, a more intelligent, gesture-driven user interface, and...

From DailyTech: Sprint has been offering what it calls HD Voice in a few markets around the country. HD Voice service promises to significantly improve call quality since it supports seven octaves of the human voice while normal voice calls can only support four. That means you can hear more of the...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. has announced the latest version of its DirectX application programing interface. Just like its predecessors over the last twenty years, the DirectX 12 will bring new capabilities as well as improve performance. But perhaps, more importantly, it will address all...

From InfoWorld: Nvidia on Tuesday announced a new mobile and graphics processor road map, ripping up chip plans it announced one year ago.

Nvidia added a new graphics processor called Pascal, which is a "processor that's essentially a supercomputer," said Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, during a...

From EETimes: Intel has demonstrated a general-purpose, 14 nm SerDes chip designed to reduce the size of its successful 22 nm SerDes offering by 40%, and also to cut power consumption by 20% compared to the 22 nm SerDes product.

The March 20 announcement of the 1 Gbit/s to 16 Gbit/s SerDes appeared...

From PC World: HTC is hoping to expand its presence in China by partnering with one of the nation’s largest retailers to sell its phones, and even help with product development, the Taiwanese handset maker said on Wednesday.

A day after unveiling its new One M8 flagship smartphone, HTC announced...

From DailyTech: Facebook is stepping into the virtual gaming world through a recently announced purchase of Oculus VR.

According to Business Insider, Facebook is buying Oculus VR for $2 billion USD in cash and stock. A breakdown looks more like $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of...