Best Buy Reports Earnings, Announces the Closing of 50 Stores

From DailyTech: Best Buy may have dominated its former competitors to the point where Circuit City went out of business, but it appears Best Buy itself is now under pressure. The electronics giant recently offered up its financial details and among the profits and losses was a tidbit...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits New Foxconn Plant in China

From DailyTech: Apple CEO Tim Cook recently took a trip to China to meet with Vice Premier Li Keqiang and to also visit Apple's new Foxconn Zhengzhou iPhone plant.

Earlier this week, Cook met with Vice Premier Li Keqiang in order to discuss trade and economic cooperation between...

Nvidia Predicts Tegra 3-Based Tablets for $199

From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer and Nvidia Corp. have already demonstrated a Tegra 3-based media tablet with 7" screen that is projected to cost $249. According to chief executive officer of Nvidia, this summer Tegra 3-based slates from less renowned brands will cost starting from...

Microsoft Patents Interactive Keyboard with Screens in Every Key.

From X-bit Labs: While some may believe that keyboards are no longer important in the world of touch-screens, it does not seem to be the truth. Microsoft Corp. has apparently submitted a patent on "interactive keyboard with multiple different key arrangements". In fact, Microsoft...

Samsung Has Shipped 5 Million Galaxy Note Devices

From PC World: For those who think there's no market for phone-tablet hybrids like the Galaxy Note, Samsung would like to offer 5 million counter-arguments.

That's how many Samsung Galaxy Note handsets have shipped over the last five months, the company announced. Earlier this month...

Is HTC prepping an iPod Touch rival?

From CNET News.com: A newly uncovered patent design from HTC indicates that the "quietly brilliant" hardware maker could be secretly working on a personal media player.

Initially discovered and detailed by Patentbolt, the filing reveals that the company applied for the patent in...

Only 82K ASUS Transformer Primes Delivered; TSMC 28 nm Woes

From DailyTech: ASUSTek Computer Inc. (TPE:2357) gained the enviable position of having its Tegra 3-powered Transformer Prime -- a powerful keyboard dock enabled Android tablet design --become the official flagship tablet of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich mobile...

Court Grants Asus Rights to Use Transformer Brand

From X-bit Labs: Hasbro, a leading maker of toys and board games, has failed to persuade the U.S. court that Asustek Computer infringes its intellectual properties by using the name "Transformer" to call its tablets with optional keyboards. The court says that Asus' tablets will not...

AMD Completes Sea Micro Acquisition in Record Time

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said it had completed acquisition of SeaMicro, a low-power server maker, in record time, or less than a month. The pioneer in energy-efficient, high-bandwidth micro-servers cost AMD approximately $334 million, net of cash assumed. AMD...

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