From DailyTech: Each year Gawker Media's The Consumerist site doles out a dubious distinction to one dastardly corporation -- the title of "Worst Company In America". Last year pro-digital rights management Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA) beat out bailout whipping-boy Bank of America...

From DailyTech: Samsung has announced a new notebook computer running Windows 8 that will be coming to the United States soon.

The notebook is officially called the ATIV Book 6, features a Core i7 processor and has a 15.6-inch screen (1080p resolution). The machine will also feature...

From X-bit Labs: John Gustafson, chief product architect at graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices and a renowned industry veteran, praises the heterogeneous system architecture of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 as well as its ultra-fast unified memory sub-system. In addition...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading maker of solid-state drives for PCs and enterprises, is reportedly working on Vertex 5 solid-state drives that will be powered by Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller as well as inexpensive NAND flash memory. The new drives are projected to...

From CNET News.com: Intel discussed the next-generation "Bay Trail" tablet processor today at its annual conference in Beijing. Expect to see a new crop of faster yet still power-efficient Windows 8 -- and likely Windows 8.1 -- tablets later this year.

An "entirely new Atom...

From DailyTech: With Google Inc.'s (GOOG) new "Pixel" Chromebooks beating Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) premium laptops in the pixels-per-inch (ppi) arms race, Apple is reportedly pondering releasing 4K Thunderbolt 2 displays for sometime in 2014. 4K (typically referring to 3840x2160 pixel...

From DailyTech: Just as Google was on the verge of escaping one investigation with European regulators, it may be caught in yet another -- but this time, regarding its Android operating system.

Fairsearch Europe -- a group of Google competitors including Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle...

From X-bit Labs: A year from now will mark the final milestone for Windows XP, the end of support for the operating system by Microsoft Corp. The longest-living OS from Microsoft will finally become obsolete exactly a year from now. Meanwhile, over one third of desktops and notebooks...

From X-bit Labs: HGST, a Western Digital company, has announced the industry’s first family of advanced enterprise-class solid-state drives with SAS-12Gb/s interface. The drives are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory and are designed for the most demanding applications...

From CNET News.com: WhatsApp, the maker of the popular mobile chat program, denied this evening that it is in talks to be acquired by Google for nearly $1 billion.

The two companies have been talking for "four or five weeks," according to a Digital Trends report last week that...