From X-bit Labs: Consistent with previously announced strategic plans, Texas Instruments this week announced it would reduce costs and focus investments in its wireless business on embedded markets with greater potential for sustainable growth. As a result, TI ceases development of...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's digital book pact with Barnes & Noble is already bearing fruit.

A little more than a month after the two companies officially formed a partnership geared toward digital reading, Nook apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT have arrived at the Windows Store...

From DailyTech: BlackBerry smartphones are quickly losing favor among the average consumers and business users. Most smartphone users are moving to the iPhone or Android devices leaving BlackBerry maker RIM struggling.

RIM is hoping to plug a few holes in its sinking ship with a...

From DailyTech: Panasonic's financial future isn't as secure as the company would like. Panasonic's finance chief said this week that about 1/5 of the company's 88 business units are losing money. The finance chief went on to say that only of those 88 units meet the company's target...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of microprocessors for personal computers, and Qualcomm, the globe’s biggest supplier of system-on-chips for mobile electronics, plan to jointly invest as much as $378 million into display maker Sharp Corp. to guarantee stable...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices this week introduced its AMD FirePro S10000 compute accelerator card designed for both high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, workstation deployments and remote graphics intensive applications, a rather unique positioning.

AMD FirePro...

From CNET News.com: The future of television technology will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

Samsung today announced that it has won 27 Consumer Electronics Show 2013 Innovation Awards, given to products that will be on display at the event in January that...

From DailyTech: Stretching 5-inches and boasting a gaudy 1920x1080 Super LCD 3 high-definition display, the Droid DNA from HTC Corp. (TPE:2498) has been earmarked to the flagship phone of Verizon Wireless's Android lineup.

Possibly slated for a holiday launch, the device packs...

From DailyTech: Microsoft has announced that the launch of Halo 4 was the biggest Halo launch in history. The launch was also the biggest video game launch of the year, generating $220 million globally in the first 24 hours. Microsoft says that the game was on track to reach $300...

From X-bit Labs: At the SC12 supercomputer conference, Nvidia Corp. introduced its Tesla K20-series of graphics processing units-based accelerators for high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The new products are based on the code-named GK110 processors specifically tailored...