From PC World: Early smartphone pioneer Palm is making a comeback—at least in name. Chinese multinational TCL Communication, which produces smartphones as the Alcatel OneTouch, recently announced it would relaunch the Palm brand as a U.S.-based company. TCL acquired the rights to the Palm name from...

From CNET: Audio equipment maker Monster has filed a lawsuit against Apple's Beats Electronics, claiming that the high-end-headphone maker's co-founders allegedly conspired to sever the headphone line from Monster before Apple bought the company last year for $3.2 billion.

In a complaint filed...

From DailyTech: Intel Corp.'s (INTC) first widely available chips built on its new 14 nanometer (nm) scale node are finally here. The new shrunk core design is code-named Broadwell. And while Broadwell promises big gains, it's a year late in practice, if not in principle. And that raises some...

From InfoWorld: Netflix, accused of taking advantage of Internet fast lanes while calling on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to prohibit them, has defended its practice of signing traffic peering agreements with large broadband providers.

Netflix's traffic interconnection deals with...

From PC World: Do you trust Facebook to do the right thing with Oculus Rift? Would you trust any multi-billion dollar company to so thoroughly dominate a new technology that there's no room for competitors to maneuver?

Probably not.

But that's what Razer hopes to short-circuit with its OSVR, or...

From CNET: Samsung may be releasing Tizen on all of its 2015 smart TVs, but owners of its older devices are out of luck.

Joe Stinziano, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics America, told CNET on Monday that it won't work for the company to update older Samsung smart TVs to Tizen.

"It is...

From DailyTech: Xiaomi, Inc. -- a Chinese gadget maker who's rocketed to third place in global sales and first place in sales in its home country -- reported some results of its record-setting 2014 year of sales, hot on the heels of its recent $45B USD valuation.

The OEM, who just raised $1.1B USD...

From PC World: Move over, Tegra K1, you’re already obsolete. At a Sunday night press conference, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang launched a new mobile superchip, the Tegra X1. If Nvidia has its way, the X1 will be the graphics and artificial intelligence engine for the car of tomorrow.

The Tegra X1...

From InfoWorld: Thinner, lighter, faster ... expensive: Here come Lenovo's new ThinkPads, which also have longer battery life.

Lenovo hasn't radically changed the new ThinkPads, and for good reason. Its committed user base resists product overhauls. Headlined by the ultrathin ThinkPad Carbon X1 and...

From PC World: Launching a feature phone at the beginning of 2015 may seem strange, but Microsoft is convinced there is still a market for the Nokia 215 as a second phone and in parts of the world were electricity is scarce and budgets are small.

Microsoft calls Nokia 215 the company’s most...