From CNET News.com: Apple was the top mobile phone maker in the U.S. for the first time ever last quarter, Strategy Analytics said today.

Following the iPhone 5's debut last September, Apple shipped an estimated 17.7 million phones in the U.S. in the fourth quarter to score a market...

From DailyTech: If you've been counting down the days until Grand Theft Auto V arrives, Rockstar has offered up some bad news. The game was originally expected to launch in the spring of 2013, which meant sometime in the next couple months. Rockstar has now changed that official...

From DailyTech: Samsung has bought 5 percent of Wacom, which is likely an attempt to equip more of its tablets and smartphones with the high-quality stylus'.

Wacom is a company that specializes in interactive pen displays and digital drawing tablets. Samsung's 5 percent cost $58.2...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Corp. on Thursday posted a video that calls its fans to “see the future” on February 20, 2013. Given the current background and the buzz regarding the next-generation video game consoles, it is very likely that Sony plans to formally unveil its highly...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. reportedly plans to release its next-generation desktop graphics card code-named “Titan” sometimes in late February, 2013, and if what is said to be the first benchmark result of the GeForce GTX 780 is correct, then the new product will be a yet another...

From CNET News.com: The Wii U's troubles attracting gamers won't be solved by a price cut, Nintendo chief Satoru Iwata argues.

Speaking to reporters in Tokyo yesterday, Iwata acknowledged that Wii U sales disappointed last year, but he didn't necessarily feel that dropping the price...

From DailyTech: At a live launch event simultaneously held in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, Johannesburg, Jakarta and Delhi Waterloo, Ontario-based Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:BB; TSE:RIM) loaded its bullets into the chamber in what may be its final bid to remain an...

From DailyTech: We've heard about the upcoming Ubuntu OS, a would-be Linux competitor to Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android, which is set to launch in 2014. While it's faded off the radar of some, the Mozilla Foundation is crafting a Linux OS of their own, dubbed Firefox OS.

First...

From X-bit Labs: Video game consoles from Microsoft Corp., Nintendo and Sony Corp. are sold quantities that total tens of millions of units every year, but Valve Software does not believe that those systems can represent a threat for its Steam Box PC-based console concept. The head...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.’s next-generation Core i-series “Haswell” microprocessors are half a year away, but the first test results of what is claimed to be an engineering sample have already emerged. The chip has been allegedly tested in a set of benchmarks popular among...