From DailyTech: Tablet wars are starting to heat up. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a couple of fresh Windows 8.1-based tablets enter the market along with second generation Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets. We’ve even seen a Windows RT-based entry from Nokia along with the new iPad Air and...

From X-bit Labs: As the market of hard disk drives expanded to 139 – 140 million units in the third calendar quarter or 2013 (which equals to Q1 FY2014 of Seagate and WD), Western Digital Corp. widened the gap with Seagate Technology and shipped nearly seven million more hard drives during the...

From CRN: Apple beat analysts' expectations Monday, with the company reporting successful sales of its latest iPhones. Meanwhile, activist investor Carl Icahn received some bad news on the company's fourth-quarter analysts call, during which Apple CEO Tim Cook denied Icahn the satisfaction of any...

From ComputerWorld: Motorola is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones.

With Project Ara, Google-owned Motorola wants to create a third-party developer ecosystem around a customizable framework that gives users more choice in the components that make up...

From DailyTech: NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) today announced a "massive" update coming to its Android SHIELD gaming console. In addition to new and improved features, NVIDIA will also be offering a GPU/SHIELD bundled discount that includes a $100 USD rebate on SHIELD and a collection of free "AAA" PC game...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has announced that its Grid technology is powering the Playcast cloud gaming service being offered to customers of French fixed and mobile operator Bouygues Telecom. The service is available on TVs for users of Bouygues Telecom's Bbox Sensation set-top box for instant...

From eWeek: For a feature story on the connected car market, I recently spoke with Chris Penrose, senior vice president of AT&T's Emerging Devices organization. While AT&T hasn't yet shared pricing details concerning the Long Term Evolution (LTE) connectivity that it will soon support in a number of...

From EETimes: Last week saw an interesting shift in programmable SoC devices, especially in licensing IP.

XMOS Semiconductor signed a deal last Thursday, Oct. 24, to use ARM-based chips from Silicon Labs alongside its own deterministic multicore silicon in a single package. Part of this is an...

From DailyTech: LG unveiled its latest smartphone today called the G Flex following leaked details of the device earlier this month. The smartphone features a curved screen designed to follow the contour of the user's face. LG says device also takes advantage of a new user experience with features...

From X-bit Labs: Nintendo this week notified its customers in Japan that production of the legendary Wii video game console would end shortly. While the company has made no such announcements in other regions, it is clear that Wii is facing its end-of-life. While it may be sad to see the device to...