From CNET News.com: T-Mobile announced today via Twitter that the T-Mobile G2X (a.k.a. LG Optimus 2X) will be available online starting April 15 and in stores on April 20 for $199.99 with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate.

For the price, you get an Android 2.2...

From CNET News.com: The Android operating system may soon own nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market, Gartner said today.

According to the market researcher, more than 296 million smartphones shipped last year. Out of that, Symbian secured 37.6 percent market share, followed by...

From DailyTech: Google Inc. (GOOG) VP of Engineering Andy Rubin, better known as the Android team leader, posted a blog to the Android Developers site, entitled "I think I’m having a Gene Amdahl moment". In the article he seemed quite upset about the reaction to Honeycomb in the...

From DailyTech: Motorola has made quite the comeback in the last couple of years after slipping significantly with handsets and smartphones that consumers just didn't buy. The comeback made by Motorola is thanks in large part to the Android operating system.

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From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. this week unveiled a new low-end professional graphics card aimed at CAD/CAM applications. The Quadro 400 does bring a substantial performance improvement compared to the predecessor, but the novelty is based on a chip, which was originally released in...

From X-bit Labs: Not all graphics cards are equally good for experienced end-users, who are not afraid of pushing their performance to the maximum possible level. Advanced Micro Devices officially confirmed that its latest AMD Radeon HD 6790 cannot be transformed into more powerful...

From InfoWorld: Intel has announced the Xeon E7 series of chips with 10 cores, which the company said could help cut power and maintenance costs in data centers while adding more processing power.

The Xeon E7 chips, formerly code-named Westmere-EX, will be 40 percent faster than...

From PC World: As any Twitter enthusiast knows, the hardest part of turning new people onto the service is explaining why they'd want to use it in the first place.

Five years later, Twitter's still trying to nail that explanation itself. Yet another homepage redesign, reportedly...

From CNET News.com: Dish Network announced today that it will be acquiring the movie rental chain for $228 million. The satellite provider participated in a bankruptcy court auction for Blockbuster, making a winning bid of $320 million. With adjustments for cash and inventory, the...

From DailyTech: Google has recently offered $900 million for Nortel Networks' remaining 6,000 networking and wireless patents.

Nortel Networks is a multinational telecommunication equipment manufacturer from Canada. In January 2009, the company filed for bankruptcy. Since then...