From DailyTech: Amazon released its fourth-quarter earnings from 2011 today, showing off its massive holiday success with e-readers and its Kindle Fire tablet, yet still missing previous estimates.

Amazon reported a 35 percent increase in net sales from $12.95 billion in Q4 2010 to...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to further improve its competitive positions on the market of high-end graphics cards, Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday began selling a cut-down version of its high-end code-named Tahiti graphics chip. The new Radeon HD 7950 promises slightly better...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate on Tuesday reported financial results for the quarter ended December 30, 2011. Shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) dropped only 3.1% in terms of units, but at the same time the Seagate's earnings increased by 18.5%, whereas the company's profitability rose...

From PC World: IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.

Worklight, which is based in Israel...

From CNET News.com: Kim DotCom and MegaUpload helped fill out the cyberlocker's video library in 2006 by snatching videos from the then-fledgling YouTube, the U.S. government alleges.

The U.S. Justice Department is trying to extradite DotCom and three other MegaUpload managers from...

From DailyTech: There has been a lot of confusion on the changes that Google plans to make to its privacy policy. Today, Google offered up a few clarifications on its policy what the changes mean.

Specifically, the search giant is pointing out that it is changing its privacy...

From DailyTech: Europe has been a focal battleground in the international patent dispute between Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930) and Apple, Inc. (AAPL). Of late, justices in EU member states seem to be growing tired of the discourse and have been throwing the cases out...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has quietly started to sell its Core i-series "Sandy Bridge" microprocessors without integrated graphics cores. Although the new chips lack a key feature of Intel's current-generation product and thus require standalone graphics solution, cost starts at...

From X-bit Labs: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has quietly started to ship its hard disk drive with 4TB capacity with 7200rpm spindle speed. The new Deskstar 7K4000 hard drive weds extreme capacity with high performance and will likely become popular among enthusiasts this year...

From PC World: Samsung pulled the wraps off another slick-looking smartphone Monday.

While the model's name doesn't quite trip off the tongue -- the Galaxy S Advance -- it does have some tantalizing features like a four-inch AMOLED display with 480 by 800 resolution and 1 GHz dual...