From X-bit Labs: The flooding in Thailand is affecting the fabrication of several products and parts, including automobiles, car components, cameras, semiconductors and hard disk drives. The disruption to the supply chain is having an indirect impact in turn on the making of other...

From PC World: Nokia will use ST-Ericsson's dual-core NovaThor chips in future Windows Phones, the companies said on Wednesday.

Nokia launched its first such devices, running Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango, last week. The Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 contain processors from Qualcomm and will...

From CNET News.com: Contacting Best Buy outlets last week to gauge demand for the iPhone 4S, analyst William Power found that the phone was sold out at most of them, with many informing customers of shortages via automatic greetings. Stores in less populated areas were more likely to...

From DailyTech: The LCD era has not been kind to Sony Corp.'s television unit. Sony has a hand both in manufacturing LCD displays -- via a joint venture with Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. -- and, like Samsung, in selling assembled LCD TVs. Unfortunately, Sony's LCD ambitions have...

From X-bit Labs: ARM, a designer of low-power microprocessor technologies, on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Prolific, which develops IC design optimization software tools that significantly reduce development time and improve performance of cell-based designs.

The...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices last week reiterated its plans to launch its code-named Trinity accelerated processing unit (APU) earlier than expected originally. The industry pins a lot of hopes onto Fusion Trinity chip that combines next-gen AMD micro-architecture with the...

From PC World: Acer recently announced four new all-in-one PCs just in time for the holidays or those looking for a new multitouch desktop PC before the expected debut of touch-centric Windows 8 in 2012. Two of the new devices, part of Acer's AZ3 and AZ5 lines, are updates to their...

From CNET News.com: Eyeing the OS market in October, Net Applications pegged the total share for XP at 48 percent, the first time the 10-year-old OS has dipped below 50 percent specifically among desktop platforms. That's down from 50.5 percent in September and 52.5 percent in August...

From DailyTech: Both Netflix and Amazon have announced new agreements with Disney-ABC Television Group today.

Netflix has had a bit of a rocky road throughout 2011 with the decision to raise prices, limit video streams, add a DVD spinoff company called Qwikster, then suddenly...

From DailyTech: AMD's monthly Catalyst video card driver updates are a little late this month, but there are a few Halloween treats in store for the faithful. The unified desktop Catalyst 11.10 drivers enable support for Eyefinity 5x1 display configurations in portrait and landscape...