From DailyTech: That's the take home message from Opera Software ASA's (OSE:OPERA) somewhat surprising announcement that it is going to transition to the WebKit platform, taking its 300 million plus users with it.

Opera boasts tens of millions of desktop users, but is a niche player...

From X-bit Labs: Valve Software this week reduced its headcount by approximately 25 developers of software and hardware for unknown reasons. The laid off hardware and software developers were working on different products and the reasons why the seemingly successful company decided...

From X-bit Labs: Even though Nvidia Corp. formally introduced its next-generation Tegra 4 application processor for mobile devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January, the company will not start revenue shipments of the system-on-chip until July. As a result, the first...

From CNET News.com: Apple today dropped the prices in its line of MacBook Pro laptops with Retina display while boosting processor speeds.

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina now starts $1,499, or $200 less than before. The higher-capacity 256GB version costs $1,699, or $300...

From DailyTech: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently stated that the company's search partnership with Microsoft is not delivering the gains expected. Mayer says that the deal is not delivering search market share gains or the revenue that it should be.

"One of the points of the...

From DailyTech: Qualcomm, Inc.'s (QCOM) Snapdragon S4 was viewed as a major evolutionary leap in smartphone chipmaking as it incorporated an on-die 4G LTE modem into the central system-on-a-chip. Not so fast, says Broadcom Corp. (BRCM). The veteran modem-maker announced this week a...

From X-bit Labs: Dell has announced three new flagship monitors that support 99% AdobeRGB and 100 % sRGB coverage with a deltaE of less than 2 that feature 12-bit internal processor which enables whopping 1.07 billion colors, superb color reproduction and gradation. In addition, Dell...

From X-bit Labs: In accordance with the plan to significantly boost shipments of its media tablets, Asustek Computer this week introduced another slate with moderate price. The new Asus MeMo Pad 10.1” will sell for only $299, but will feature a powerful quad-core application...

From CNET News.com: Mobile World Congress will kick off in Barcelona in two weeks, but that doesn't mean the news will wait until then.

LG announced today that it will unveil the next iteration of its L-Series line of mid-tier devices at the mobile conference later this month.

The...

From DailyTech: Back in 2010, AT&T decided that it would try to purchase rival wireless carrier T-Mobile. AT&T offered Deutsche Telekom $39 billion for T-Mobile, and it was eager to sell. The problem for both of the wireless carriers was the regulators stepped in and killed the deal...