From X-bit Labs: Acer Group, the company that managed to become one of the leaders on the emerging market of netbooks back in 2009, but failed to gain traction on the growing market of media tablets and smartphones, reportedly decided to close down its touch business group...

From InfoWorld: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved AT&T's $1.9 billion purchase of spectrum from Qualcomm on Thursday, allowing the carrier to salvage one ambitious deal to acquire more spectrum, after shooting down its planned merger with T-Mobile USA.

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From PC World: Intel on Wednesday started shipping the latest Atom chips for netbooks, an important step to sustain growth of the low-cost PCs in the wake of the tablet onslaught.

The dual-core chips, part of the platform code-named Cedar Trail, bring better battery life and overall...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft plans to target inexpensive smartphones with the next release of its mobile operating system, and won't add more advanced features until a software release slated for the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a leaked Windows Phone roadmap obtained by the...

From DailyTech: Companies in the tech world at times resort to some very questionable tactics to maintain or boost profits. Such is the case with some of the largest firms in the technology realm when they conspired between 1999 and 2006 to artificially fix the prices of LCD screen...

From DailyTech: Not to be outdone by the likes of Samsung and HTC, LG Mobile announced yesterday on its official Facebook page that its Android phones would also be receiving Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

The Seoul-based electronics manufacturer has been taking a beating in the...

From X-bit Labs: MicroStar International, a leading maker of mainboards and other electronics, has unveiled a new series of motherboards with voice control feature, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11n and other improvements. The new platforms from MSI will be based on Intel Corp.'s chipsets...

From Tom's Hardware: There has been plenty of speculation about Google's motivation to guarantee Mozilla nearly $1 billion in a 3-year advertising contract that covers the search box in Firefox.

The obvious idea behind this move is Google's interest in capturing those advertising...

From eWeek: It’s the smartphone market, stupid. That’s the point of view from one Windows Phone 7 evangelist and former Microsoft employee, who wrote a long blog post lamenting poor sales of the Microsoft smartphones and the success of inferior products like Google Android-powered...

From PC World: GoDaddy, the Internet's largest domain registrar, says that complaints from rival firm Namecheap about delays in transferring domain names are attributable to a failure to communicate.

GoDaddy has seen thousands of domains jumping ship in recent days because of its...