From DailyTech: Acer is shying away from the use of Thunderbolt and will instead focus on USB for future machines.

According to Acer, Thunderbolt is for more high-end PCs and has become much too expensive. USB, on the other hand, has had a performance boost and offers more bang for...

From DailyTech: BlackBerry, Ltd. (TSE:BB) is treading water financially, as it continues to spin its wheels at the herculean task of producing an industry-leading operating system on what is a lean budget compared to deep-pocketed competitors like Google Inc. (GOOG), Apple, Inc....

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs), has announced selected preliminary financial results for the first quarter ended May 31, 2013. The company blamed tight supply of NAND flash memory for its results, but said that...

From X-bit Labs: Modern smartphones with their vast capabilities define modern lives. At a press event in the U.S., Samsung Electronics has demonstrated a video with its vision for the smartphone of tomorrow. Perhaps, the company has also given a glimpse into a part of our life...

From CNET News.com: Apple and Samsung's relationship is apparently not so strained as to prevent the South Korean electronics giant from providing the chips that will power future iPhones, a recent report claimed.

Samsung will supply Apple with A9 chips based on a 14-nanometer...

From DailyTech: Hulu's co-owners have taken the "for sale" sign off of the video streaming service and decided to pour more money into it instead.

NBCUniversal, 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company -- which co-own Hulu -- have decided not to sell Hulu afterall. Instead...

From DailyTech: Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) has completed its acquisition by Japan's Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984), just days after Sprint completed its acquisition of Clearwire Corp. (CLWR). The deal -- which gives shareholders $16.6B USD in cash ($7.65 USD per share) and gives Sprint $5B...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Semiconductor, the world’s third largest contract maker of chips, has kicked off construction of its new facility in San Jose, California. The new fab will be used for manufacturing of leading-edge chips as well as for research and development of new...

From X-bit Labs: Without any doubts, leading makers of hard disk drives are late to solid-state drive market. But it looks like the situation is getting better for them thanks to recent take-overs and partnerships.

In less than one month Western Digital, the world’s largest...