From CNET News.com: Apple has acquired Israel-based flash memory startup Anobit, a report claims.

The deal, according to Israel's Calcalist business news site (Google Translate), is in the $400 million to $500 million range. Earlier today, Anobit apparently informed its employees...

From DailyTech: Christmas came early for Apple, facing off in Washington D.C. before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). As companies have increasingly begun to do in recent years, Apple had turned to the ITC to play court and offer a back door to ban its competitors'...

From DailyTech: AT&T and Deutsche Telekom's attempt to sell off T-Mobile assets to other carriers in order to boost AT&T's $39 billion acquisition have stalled, making the deal seem even less likely to pull through.

AT&T entered a $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche...

From X-bit Labs: Panasonic Corp., Samsung Electronics., SanDisk Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. on Monday said that they have reached an agreement to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards. Under the “Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative,”...

From PC World: Japanese game developer Square Enix said Monday that no private data was stolen when a server for a fan site was hacked last week, and it plans to reopen the site to users by the end of the year.

The company shut down the "Square Enix Members" site for the U.S. and...

From CNET News.com: For the first time ever, Android is being used more frequently than iPhone to access Facebook.

Facebook for Android has 58.3 million average daily users compared with an average of 57.4 million daily users who access the social network via an iPhone app...

From DailyTech: Last week, Western Digital revealed that it was cutting the warranty on its Caviar Blue/Green and Scorpio Blue drives from three years to two years. Now, it looks like Seagate just couldn't stand by and let Western Digital have all fun when it comes to cutting hard...

From DailyTech: Waterloo, Ontario-based Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM) tried to put on its most cheerful face reporting its fiscal Quarter 3 2012 earnings (calendar quarter 4 2011). The numbers weren't great, but they weren't worse than expected either, living up to analysts'...

From X-bit Labs: The chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices said at a conference that advantages brought by the next-generation process technologies will get less noticeable than previously. As a result, AMD will need to transit to new technologies more wisely than before...