From DailyTech: BlackBerry has a lot riding on the success of its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones. The company has already seen some moderate sales success with the new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone by selling three times better than previous BlackBerry models in the UK. While these...

From DailyTech: Barnes & Noble suffered a sizable loss in the third quarter due to a sales drop in its Nook and e-books business.

Barnes & Noble reported a net loss of $6.1 million (18 cents per share) compared to its profit of $52 million (71 cents per share) in the year-ago...

From X-bit Labs: Even though Mozilla’s browser-based Firefox operating system has failed to gain support from large makers of smartphones, it does not mean that nobody is interested in making devices powered by the HTML5 platform. At least four smaller makers of smartphones have...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hard disk drives, plans to cease production of mobile hard drives with 7200rpm spindle speed late this year as the mainstream market demand will shift to different products, such as solid-state hybrid...

From CNET News.com: Apple's iCloud had a major outage this morning, but things are slowly but surely returning to normal.

The outage was reported this morning on Apple's Status page, showing that 11 percent of users were affected. All of iCloud's services, including Mail support...

From DailyTech: Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) is perhaps the most intriguing force in the U.S. telecommunications market. While it's currently performing miserably, bleeding customers and revenue, it's also in a process of evolution that could make it a leaner, more competitive power...

From DailyTech: NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) in January made the bold claim that its Tegra 4 system-on-a-chip (SoC) was "the world's fastest mobile processor". At the 2013 Mobile World Congress, the company was busy preaching that claim and praising the chips potential for smartphones...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices reaffirmed plans to sell accelerated processing units with Jaguar x86 cores and Radeon HD “GCN” graphics technology on open market. While those APUs will not be as powerful as the one that AMD developed for Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 game...

From X-bit Labs: Nokia Corp. at the Mobile World Congress unveiled the Nokia 105, its most affordable phone to date, and the Nokia 301, its most affordable cell phone with Internet and email access and camera. The phones will be available in different parts of the world in the second...

From CNET News.com: The upstart mobile operating system, shepherded into development by Samsung Electronics and Intel, made a splashy debut at an event at Mobile World Congress.

The operating system is seen as a potential alternative to the dominance of Android, and has been...