From DailyTech: Both Netflix and Amazon have announced new agreements with Disney-ABC Television Group today.

Netflix has had a bit of a rocky road throughout 2011 with the decision to raise prices, limit video streams, add a DVD spinoff company called Qwikster, then suddenly...

From DailyTech: AMD's monthly Catalyst video card driver updates are a little late this month, but there are a few Halloween treats in store for the faithful. The unified desktop Catalyst 11.10 drivers enable support for Eyefinity 5x1 display configurations in portrait and landscape...

From X-bit Labs: AMD FX-series microprocessor has once again set the world's highest microprocessor clock-speed record. Previously, AMD's own specialists overclocked the microprocessor to 8429MHz, now an independent oveclocker has managed to increase frequency of the code-named...

From X-bit Labs: With little room left to maneuver in the tough TV system-on-chip (SoC) market central to the ambitious Google TV initiative, Google partner Intel Corp. is quietly reshuffling resources away from the connected television semiconductor space and redirecting attention...

From Tom's Hardware: This new Firefox features Bing as its default search engine instead of Google. According to Mozilla, the browser is an extension of the "partnership" the company announced with Microsoft in 2010.

For Mozilla, the "Firefox with Bing" browser is certainly a good...

From CNET News.com: During the period, HTC generated nearly NT$136 billion ($4.5 billion) in revenue, jumping 79 percent over the same period last year. HTC's after-tax profit hit $624 million, representing a 68 percent gain year-over-year.

According to HTC, which announced its...

From CNET News.com: Apple is readying a MacBook that would extend the ultrathin Air design beyond the 13-inch market segment, according to reports.

Japanese-language site Macotakara says a new 15-inch model has entered the test phase.

It's not clear at this point whether this will...

From DailyTech: A report by Bloomberg is shaking up the CPU market this morning. The news agency cites two sources close to hardware giant Hewlett-Packard Comp. (HPQ) as indicating that the company was close to releasing servers powered by ARM-architecture CPUs. The move would be a...

From X-bit Labs: ARM this week disclosed technical details of its new ARMv8 architecture, the first ARM architecture to include a 64-bit instruction set. ARMv8 broadens the ARM architecture to embrace 64-bit processing and extends virtual addressing, building on the rich heritage of...

From X-bit Labs: Despite of the fact that Globalfoundries could not ship enough new-generation microprocessors made using 32nm SOI process technology to Advanced Micro Devices, the latter managed to beat its own revenue forecasts. Thanks to high demand towards its multi-core server...