From CNET News.com: HTC continued its recent winning streak as fourth-quarter sales and earnings both climbed dramatically on demand for its lineup of Android phones.

For the quarter ended December 31, the mobile phone maker took in a net profit of NT$14.59 billion (US$500 million)...

From DailyTech: Google is set to launch a new service of users called Google Offers. The new service will be in direct competition with Groupon reports Mashable. Mashable was given some documents by a source that outline Google’s plans and what the service will look like.

Google...

From DailyTech: Microsoft’s announcement that the next version of Windows would support ARM chipmakers' CPUs was a bombshell and shocking news to x86 chipmaker Intel. Many took the news as a sign that Microsoft felt Intel, the world leader in PC CPU shipments, was offering too...

From X-bit Labs: Lenovo Group, the world's fourth largest supplier of personal computers, and NEC Corp. are reportedly planning to create a joint-venture that will sell PCs in Japan. The two companies will jointly develop and build PCs in order to reduce their costs through economies...

From X-bit Labs: After ten years at the company, Eric Schmidt decided to resign as the chief executive officer of Google, a leading Internet service company. Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, will take the helm and will become chief executive officer starting early April. The...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has reportedly traced the cause of random, high spikes in data usage by some Windows Phone 7 handsets to a widely accessed "third-party solution." Microsoft is working with that so-far unidentified vendor, according to SeattlePI.com.

The glitch, according...

From PC World: Oracle is planning to announce what it calls "a dramatic leap in storage technology" during a Jan. 31 webcast.

"We can't tell you just how much this will improve your datacenter until the big event," the company's website states. But customers will experience greatly...

From CNET News.com: Samsung is seeing significant growth in app downloads on its line of HDTVs.

The company announced this week that 2 million apps have been downloaded from its sets since its marketplace launched last year. The news comes less than two months after Samsung...

From CNET News.com: Amazon.com has signed an agreement to acquire Lovefilm, a U.K.-based company that's considered a European equivalent to Netflix.

The online retail giant had owned a minority stake in Lovefilm since 2008 when the latter bought Amazon's DVD rental business, which...

From DailyTech: Nintendo announced today that its 3DS system will be in stores March 27 of this year, and will cost $249.99.

The Nintendo 3DS is a portable game console that is capable of producing 3D effects through the use of autostereoscopy. Autostereoscopy allows a user to...