From DailyTech: It's no secret what gave Google half of America's smartphone market and propelled it into second place worldwide in global smartphone sales -- a combination of an open ethos, a plethora of hardware options, and an aggressive schedule of operating system updates. The...

From X-bit Labs: After about one and a half months on the market across the world, sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab multimedia slate have hit one million sales milestone, according to the company. The interest towards the tablet seems to be growing as the Christmas season is getting near...

From X-bit Labs: Elpida, the largest supplier of dynamic random access memory in Japan, on Monday renewed its cross-licensing agreement with Rambus, a developer of memory and interface technologies. For some reason, Elpida also decided to pay Rambus for GDDR5 memory technology, a...

From InfoWorld: Make no mistake: The news that Apple would be launching a Mac App Store was probably the most significant story to come out of the company's Back to the Mac event in October -- or at least the one with the most far-reaching implications. But since that initial push...

From PC World: Research In Motion has agreed to provide the Indian government with access to BlackBerry Messenger communications on a case-by-case basis, according to a spokesman for the company in India.

The company will, however, only allow the government "lawful access" to these...

From CNET News.com: Two significant features are coming to Opera Mobile for Android, the Oslo company's higher-end smartphone browser: playing HTML5 video and accommodating Adobe Systems' Flash Player plug-in.

"New Web technologies aim to replace it, but Flash will be around for...

From CNET News.com: Facebook unveiled a redesign for members' profile pages today that puts a greater emphasis on photos and sharing personal information at the top of users' pages.

n the redesign, photos take a greater prominence, expanding in size and moving to the top of the page...

From DailyTech: After months of speculation and minor detail leaks, Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" might finally get official today.

The tech blogosphere is abuzz after Notion Ink, an Indian developer, wrote in a blog post over the weekend:

"6th December is another big day for...

From DailyTech: here's an old saying that if something sounds too good to be true, then maybe it is. Now, that's not always true. Take Microsoft's free antivirus/anti-malware protection Microsoft Security Essentials works well and is free to Windows users. However, that old adage...

From X-bit Labs: For years Nokia has been the largest maker of mobile phones on the planet. The company is still the largest supplier of both traditional and smart handsets, but the emergence of new mobile platforms, such as Google Android, are inevitably changing the market...