From PC World: Microsoft's Windows Phone has managed to amass 30,000 apps in its Marketplace, despite occupying a mere sliver of the smartphone market.

The app count comes courtesy of Windows Phone Applist, which keeps an unofficial eye on Windows Phone 7 activity. Microsoft begin...

From X-bit Labs: The USB 3.0 promoter group has announced availability of the USB On-The-Go (OTG) 3.0 and Embedded Host supplement to the USB 3.0 specification. The USB 3.0 OTG spec enables portable SuperSpeed USB devices to communicate among themselves when a PC is not present.

The...

From DailyTech: According to Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company, Amazon could sell as many as 5 million tablets in the fourth quarter. But in order to do this, it must sell its new tablet "significantly" below its competitors' prices and have...

From eWeek: Google (NASDAQW:GOOG) Aug. 30 joined VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), OpenDNS, and several content delivery networks in launching the Global Internet Speedup initiative, a bid to boost Internet speeds all over the world.

The Global Internet Speedup is designed to improve the way...

From EETimes: In the latest look down its road map, GlobalFoundries claims it is shipping thousands of 32nm wafers a week, gearing up multiple 28nm offerings for 2012 and planning first customer tape outs using a planar 20nm process at the end of next year.

The company's recent...

From InfoWorld: Google said late Sunday that an attack mounted against its Gmail service targeted users primarily located in Iran, although the company has taken steps to block further interception attempts.

Google discovered that attackers had acquired a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)...

From CNET News.com: Anyone still hankering for a $99 TouchPad can snag a few details about the tablet's future directly from Hewlett-Packard.

In a blog posted yesterday, HP representative Mark Budgell said he didn't know if or when more TouchPads will be available but promised an...

From DailyTech: The Android operating system may be top dog at Samsung, but the smartphone maker is showing Bada some love by introducing three new Bada 2.0-powered smartphones at IFA 2011 in Berlin next month.

The three new phones are the Wave 3, the Wave M and the Wave Y. All...

From DailyTech: At this year's E3 Expo in June, Sony announced the PlayStation 3D Display, which is a new LED HDTV with 3D capabilities designed for PS3 gamers. Now, Sony has released the details of a new bundle available to those who preorder the 3D Display.

Those who pre-order...

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's largest IT company as well as the globe's largest PC supplier, said that it would prefer to spin off its personal systems group (PSG) rather than to sell it to a third party.

"We prefer a spin-off as a separate company and the...