From CNET News.com: PlayStation chief Jack Tretton confirmed this evening at the Web 2.0 summit that Sony's upcoming powerhouse handheld gaming device will go on sale in the U.S, Canada, Latin America, and Europe on February 22, 2012.

Until this evening, the PS Vita's release date...

From DailyTech: After weeks of teasing and false starts, Google and Samsung are finally ready to get official with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and the Galaxy Nexus. Being that this a "pure" Google phone, customers will get the full Ice Cream Sandwich experience without the added...

From DailyTech: Apple today reported revenue of $28.27B for the fourth quarter and $6.62B in net profit ($7.05 per diluted share). These numbers compare quite favorably to $20.34B and $4.31B ($4.64 per diluted share) for the same quarter last year.

Gross margins for Apple during Q4...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.'s attempts to lower power consumption of its chips aimed at ultrabooks and eventually at media tablets and smartphones inevitably bring fruits to desktop personal computers as well. Based on unofficial information, the company's next-generation Ivy Bridge...

From X-bit Labs: A new report citing sources with knowledge of proceeding inside Hewlett-Packard suggests that the board of directors and Meg Whitman will cancel plans to spin-off the personal systems group. Apparently, new analysis reportedly shows inefficiencies in the PC business...

From PC World: The hottest new Android smartphone contender to the wildly successful iPhone 4S will be launched by Samsung and Google in Hong Kong within 12 hours, insiders say.

Called the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the smartphone would be the first to run Android 4.0, also known as Ice...

From CNET News.com: BBX combines the best qualities of RIM's older BlackBerry operating system and its QNX platform, which powers the PlayBook tablet, Lazaridis said during the company's developer conference today.

Lazaridis is still speaking, so I'll have more as his talk unfolds...

From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. appears to have passed Apple in total smartphone sales to become the world's top smartphone manufacturer. Key to that effort has been Google Inc.'s popular Linux-based Android operating system. And leading Samsung's smartphone lineup...

From DailyTech: According to a report by the UK's Mobile Today, Microsoft Corp. hopes to cast a spell on smartphone buyers this holiday season, pouring $44.1M USD into promoting its new Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" operating system. Windows Phone has struggled in sales thus far, due to...

From X-bit Labs: ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Tuesday said that they had taped out the first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The two companies completed the implementation from RTL to tape out in six months using TSMC’s open innovation platform (OIP)...