From EETimes: Samsung announced the next generation of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. The handset is designed to be a sleek companion to Samsung's new family of wearable devices.

"Consumers want durable design and performance," JK Shin, Samsung...

From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices has optimized a version of Android for tablets and PCs containing its chips, and will sell it on new PCs through retail stores in Europe.

AMD doesn’t intend that Android will replace Windows on those devices, nor will it offer a dual-boot option. Rather, it...

From DailyTech: With mobile fast-becoming the most-important type of computing in most casual consumers' lives, Intel Corp. (INTC) looked only slightly less lost last year than it had the previous several years in the mobile market.

At mid-year last year, Intel chips were found in only 0.2 percent...

From X-bit Labs: Although Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One may be controlled using gestures thanks to Kinect motion sensor, the platform holder introduced a special media remote for the console on Thursday. The controller can control basic TV functionality as well as video playback.

The easy-to-use...

From EE Times: Spreadtrum Communications, China's leading mobile chip supplier, and Mozilla, Firefox's OS designer, have teamed up to storm the world's emerging markets with a $25 smartphone -- its startling low cost enabled by web technologies.

The two companies said they have completed the...

From PC World: A subtle mistake in how Apple implemented a basic encryption feature that shields data from snooping also affects many desktop applications that rely on the code, according to a noted security researcher.

Apple released a patch on Friday for its iOS mobile platform but has yet to...

From DailyTech: As anticipated, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) inheritance got a little bit more complex early this morning, with Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V) unveiling a series of budget devices based on a forked version of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android operating system. The devices -- the Nokia X, XR, and X+...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has introduced its all-new Xeon E7 v2 family of central processing units aimed at enterprise-class high-end servers. The new chips boast with up to fifteen cores, dramatically improved memory performance as well as a host of reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS...