From InfoWorld: Microsoft has reportedly traced the cause of random, high spikes in data usage by some Windows Phone 7 handsets to a widely accessed "third-party solution." Microsoft is working with that so-far unidentified vendor, according to SeattlePI.com.

The glitch, according...

From PC World: Oracle is planning to announce what it calls "a dramatic leap in storage technology" during a Jan. 31 webcast.

"We can't tell you just how much this will improve your datacenter until the big event," the company's website states. But customers will experience greatly...

From CNET News.com: Samsung is seeing significant growth in app downloads on its line of HDTVs.

The company announced this week that 2 million apps have been downloaded from its sets since its marketplace launched last year. The news comes less than two months after Samsung...

From CNET News.com: Amazon.com has signed an agreement to acquire Lovefilm, a U.K.-based company that's considered a European equivalent to Netflix.

The online retail giant had owned a minority stake in Lovefilm since 2008 when the latter bought Amazon's DVD rental business, which...

From DailyTech: Nintendo announced today that its 3DS system will be in stores March 27 of this year, and will cost $249.99.

The Nintendo 3DS is a portable game console that is capable of producing 3D effects through the use of autostereoscopy. Autostereoscopy allows a user to...

From DailyTech: While flashy PC CPUs have long grabbed most of the media attention, embedded CPUs have become an integral business for chipmakers like Intel. AMD has over the last decade become a critical competitor in this market, with designs like its Geode and 64-bit embedded...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of LCDs, has acquired Liquavista company which develops ultra-low power display technologies. The decision emphasizes Samsung's interest to use the electrowetting display technology in electronic book readers, mobile...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital shipped more hard disk drives (HDDs) than its arch-rival Seagate Technologies in the fourth quarter of last year as well as in the whole 2010, financial results of both companies revealed this week. Still, Seagate continues to earn more thanks to its...

From InfoWorld: Amazon on Wednesday planned to introduce an offering that combines its Web services into one tool that is aimed at making it easier for customers to use and fine-tune the services.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available for use by Java developers. To get started, a...

From PC World: Keep your browsers close to hand, because Nintendo's set to divulge final launch details at joint press events in New York and Amesterdam this morning. The press event's been a "thing" since December 20, when the company announced it'd make, well, another announcement...