From DailyTech: Earlier today Amazon, Inc. pulled the wraps off its long-awaited multimedia tablet, branded "Fire". The catchy name was backed by a bargain $199 price (TouchPad, what?) and solid hardware -- a dual core processor and all the essentials. With that tablet came a brand...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Friday said it had signed an agreement to acquire Telmap, a provider of navigation and location-based services, search and content. Telmap This move is a step towards expanding the chip giant's mobile software services capabilities as Intel continues...

From X-bit Labs: The largest online store Amazon.com is negotiating with Hewlett-Packard over possible acquisition of Palm/webOS division in a bid to create its own mobile platform to compete against Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Amazon has been the biggest online store for over a...

From PC World: The new iPhone that Apple is expected to announce on Oct. 4 is already on the shopping list of many BlackBerry and Android users. Research from InMobi, an independent mobile ad network, found that 41 percent of mobile users in North America and Canada plan to buy the...

From Tom's Hardware: Google's strategy of making Android available to developers for free has paid off extremely well. The operating system quickly mounted serious competition for Mac OS and Windows and emerged as the world's best-selling smartphone platform by the end of 2010...

From eWeek: At a high-profile Sept. 28 event in New York City, Amazon unveiled its $199.99 Kindle Fire tablet, a 7-inch device with streamlined access to the online retailer’s multimedia and cloud content.

Within a day, it seems, prominent retailer Best Buy started slashing the...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, the largest maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), said on Thursday that it had completed development of the industry’s first monolithic 4Gb LPDDR3 memory for mobile applications like smartphones and tablet PCs. The new type of memory will...

From InfoWorld: Nokia is planning to lay off an additional 3,500 employees, as the company continues to restructure after announcing its decision to focus on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system.

The affected employees work in manufacturing, location and commerce, and...

From DailyTech: Mozilla announced yesterday that it released Firefox 7, which addresses issues such as poor memory management and features new developer tools, a reporting tool to let Mozilla know about problems and more graphics hardware acceleration.

According to The Mozilla Blog...

From CNET News.com: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has sided with Apple in the company's bitter lawsuit against Psystar.

Circuit Judge Mary Schroeder ruled yesterday that Psystar's Mac clones violated copyrights Apple holds, and the ban on sales will be upheld...