From DailyTech: Android is starting to pick up steam in the world's biggest nation – China -- in terms of both population and cell phone use. With its rise in popularity, a number of third-party app stores have popped up alongside the official Android Marketplace. While these third...

From eWeek: The European Commission (EC) announced that the first universal mobile phone chargers should arrive in Europe during the first months of 2011.

The chargers, which will charge via micro-USB slots and be interoperable between brands, are result of a June 2009 agreement...

From PC World: As expected, Skype is ringing in 2011 with the addition of video calling to its Skype for iPhone app.

With Skype 3.0, you can place video calls from Skype on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and 4th-generation iPod touch, and you can receive video calls on the iPad and the...

From X-bit Labs: The U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday formally began investigation of patent infringement claims filed by Rambus against leading designer of chips, a case that involves tens of companies. Among the potential defenders are large suppliers of personal...

From CRN: Apple's second-generation iPad will have the same size display as its precedessor, but be 3mm physically smaller overall, with a narrower bezel. That's the latest in a recent series of iPad 2 rumors, this time from a Japan-based Apple blog called MacOtakara, which cited an...

From EETimes: Intel Corp. has introduced to the market a solid-state drive (SSD) that offers 40- and 80-Gbyte memory capacity in a format measuring 51-mm by 30-mm and only 5-mm deep. The unit weighs 10 grams.

The memory contains 34-nm NAND flash memory, is available in an m-SATA...

From X-bit Labs: LucidLogix, a designer of universal multi-GPU solutions, this week announced a new GPU virtualization software designed for Intel Sandy Bridge platforms. With this technology, next-generation PCs will dynamically switch between integrated graphics core of Intel Core...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has refiled a lawsuit against several major technology companies over claims of patent infringement.

In his revised complaint filed yesterday, Allen alleges that 11 tech companies and retailers--Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL...

From X-bit Labs: Nintendo has issued a list of health-related safety warnings for its upcoming 3DS video game console, the world's first portable system with autostereoscopic 3D screen. The company claims that for children under six should not use the console, whereas gamers, who...

From PC World: Google's Android Market now has more than 200,000 apps, according to the third-party app tracking service AndroLib. This marks another big milestone in the breakneck race to the top with Apple's App Store but Google has not confirmed this achievement yet.

If AndroLib...