From CNET News.com: HTC has reportedly already engineered a workaround to sidestep a U.S. agency ruling that HTC infringed on one of Apple's patents.

The move became necessary after the International Trade Commission, a federal agency with the power to enforce bans on products...

From DailyTech: The Nokia Lumia 800 (also known by its "Sea Ray" codename) is Nokia Oyj.'s (HEL:NOK1V) first crack at a Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" smartphone. Officially unveiled in October, it launched without much fanfare in Europe in November 2011 and since has been trickling out...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Computer Entertainment has started to sell its latest PlayStation Vita portable video game console in Japan. The new device clearly pushes mobile gaming forward in terms of technology, but it remains to be seen whether it will actually be a massive success as...

From X-bit Labs: Although Intel Corp.'s Wireless Display technology has made a lot of hype in the media, up to now no consumer electronics company supported it with actual display or TV products, which required end-users to get bulky and complex proprietary WiDi adapters. In the...

From InfoWorld: Seagate Technology said Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after it recently received approval for the deal in Australia, China, and the European Commission.

Seagate said in April that it was...

From CNET News.com: Apple has acquired Israel-based flash memory startup Anobit, a report claims.

The deal, according to Israel's Calcalist business news site (Google Translate), is in the $400 million to $500 million range. Earlier today, Anobit apparently informed its employees...

From DailyTech: Christmas came early for Apple, facing off in Washington D.C. before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). As companies have increasingly begun to do in recent years, Apple had turned to the ITC to play court and offer a back door to ban its competitors'...

From DailyTech: AT&T and Deutsche Telekom's attempt to sell off T-Mobile assets to other carriers in order to boost AT&T's $39 billion acquisition have stalled, making the deal seem even less likely to pull through.

AT&T entered a $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche...

From X-bit Labs: Panasonic Corp., Samsung Electronics., SanDisk Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. on Monday said that they have reached an agreement to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards. Under the “Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative,”...

From PC World: Japanese game developer Square Enix said Monday that no private data was stolen when a server for a fan site was hacked last week, and it plans to reopen the site to users by the end of the year.

The company shut down the "Square Enix Members" site for the U.S. and...