From DailyTech: The department that handles acquisitions and mergers at Sprint has been very busy lately. Sprint announced that it would be selling a majority stake to Softbank for $20 billion in October. Sprint has also long coveted the wireless spectrum that partner Clearwire holds...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. will roll-out its next-generation code-named Haswell processors for desktops in two phases, according to a media report. The first phase will take place in early second quarter, presumably in April, whereas the second phase will take place sometimes in Q3...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday introduced the Intel Atom processor S1200-series designed for servers. The new chips support numerous server features to achieve server-class reliability, manageability as well as cost effectiveness and are among the most power-efficient server...

From CNET News.com: Google's Motorola Mobility unit has signed a deal to sell its Chinese manufacturing operations to Flextronics, which has agreed to run its Brazil facility as well.

Under the deal, announced yesterday, employees and assets will transfer to Flextronics once the...

From DailyTech: Research firm IDC has published its latest results for the worldwide smart connected device market covering Q3 of 2012. The market grew significantly during the quarter to the tune of 27.1% year-over-year. The quarter reached a record of 303.6 million shipments valued...

From DailyTech: It seems as though everyone is picking on RIM these days. Last month we talked about RIM losing a patent infringement case to Nokia relating to Wi-Fi technology.

Today we learned that RIM is involved in a new patent suit that has been filed by Wi-LAN in the U.S...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. has announced that the company has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the world's lowest power consumption yet reported, indicating that it has the potential to...

From X-bit Labs: IBM on Monday announced a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing. The breakthrough technology – silicon nanophotonics – allows the integration of different optical components side-by-side...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to cut costs, Advanced Micro Devices claims it is turning down certain low-volume deals that require it to invest into implementation of its products. While such approach leads to a significant decrease of market share, it naturally means leaner financial...

From DailyTech: When Google Inc. (GOOG) bought Motorola Mobility, it was inevitable that big changes were in store. Bleeding cash, but with a lot of interesting assets -- a smartphone business, patents, and a set-top box business -- Google had chosen quite the fixer-upper.

The...