From CNET News.com: Microsoft will have fewer patents to contend with in its fight against Google-owned Motorola Mobility.

The handset maker earlier this week filed a motion with the International Trade Commission asking that patent-infringement claims it has brought against...

From DailyTech: Financials for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp., Ltd. (TPE:2330) one of the world's largest third-party chip fabricators were impressive for the third calendar quarter of 2012. The Taiwanese chipmaker raked in T$49.3 ($1.69B USD) in profits -- a record and...

From DailyTech: Micosoft fans, the time has come -- Windows 8 will be available tonight at midnight, and you can pick it up via download or variety of new devices.

Microsoft sent out its official Windows 8 press release today announcing that the new operating system will be...

From X-bit Labs: Apple on Thursday disclosed its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, which ended September 29, 2012. Although during the quarter the company did not refresh its product line during the quarter, sales of all of its major products remained on strong...

From X-bit Labs: So far Advanced Micro Devices has not been exactly successful with its tablet design wins. Acer’s tablet with a custom Ontario chip has failed to reach the mass market, whereas Fujitsu’s recently announced Stylistic Q572/F is too expensive. Nonetheless, the company’s...

From CNET News.com: LG has teamed up with Gram, the organization established by HP to handle the WebOS project, to create a television that will be running on the open-source operating system, according to a new report from WebOS Nation. That blog reports that LG and Gram have been...

From DailyTech: Sprint has announced it will be introducing new rate plans for data usage on tablets supporting 4G LTE technology. Currently Sprint uses WiMAX in most of its 4G areas, but as it rolls out LTE networks moving forward, it plans to offer rate plans with up to 20% more...

From DailyTech: Nintendo cut its fiscal-year profit outlook by over 50 percent in its latest earnings report -- and some of the other financial numbers aren't looking too swift, either.

For the six months ended September 30, Nintendo reported a net loss of Y27.99 ($350 million USD)...

From X-bit Labs: Nintendo this week announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, and also outlined its expectations regarding sales of its next-generation video game console and supporting software. Despite of the fact that the Wii U console is brand new and...

From X-bit Labs: Hackers, who call themselves “The Three Musketeers”, this week released an equivalent of the so-called “master key” for Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 video game consoles. The new keys allow decrypting PS3’s level 0 (lv0) security layer used by the primary boot loader...