From PC World: Less than a week after it announced plans for a new platform called BBX for its smartphones and tablet, Research In Motion is facing the threat of legal action from a software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that claims that BBx is the trademark of software it...

From CNET News.com: Today, Verizon reported that its profits increased to $3.54 billion, or 49 cents a share, compared with $2.7 billion, or 23 cents a share, during the same quarter a year ago. Adjusted profits for Verizon were 56 cents a share. Analysts had expected 55 cents a...

From CNET News.com: Texas Instruments will be leading the way on Android 4.0. Its dual-core OMAP4460 chip is inside the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which, in turn, is the launch vehicle for Android 4.0.

This didn't happen overnight. TI and Google have been preparing for this week's Ice...

From DailyTech: Netflix has had a pretty hard time this year with all the recent changes it made as well as the negative reactions to said changes. Now, investors are wondering what Netflix will report as far as quarterly earnings go on Monday, but the expectations aren't too high...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. plans to release its next-generation Xbox video-game console sometimes in 2013, according to a report that cites industrial sources among game and tool developers. It is highly likely that Microsoft will remain tight-lipped about the console which may...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group on Thursday introduced its first solid-state drives (SSDs) powered by Indilinx Everest controller platform. The new Octane drives are not only the first 2.5" SSDs in the industry to provide up to 1TB of storage, but they also combine high-speed...

From InfoWorld: The dispute between Oracle and Google won't go to trial on Oct. 31 as initially scheduled, according to the judge overseeing the case.

On Wednesday, Judge William Alsup issued an order cancelling the Oct. 31 jury-trial start date as well as a pretrial conference set...

From CNET News.com: "You have to wait just one more week because next week at Nokia World they're going to be announcing plans to roll out Windows Phones amongst other things," Lees told All Things Digital's Ina Fried at the event. "So, we're very excited for them to be in the market...

From CNET News.com: The company confirmed yesterday via its Windows Phone blog that it's now made Mango available to "nearly everyone in the current delivery pool," meaning that it's being delivered across most of the major carriers in the U.S. and abroad.

As one example, Microsoft...

From DailyTech: Is Google Inc.'s Android to complicated for the public?

The tens of millions of smartphones it is unloading on the U.S. market and its dominant market share lead would seem to suggest otherwise. But that didn't stop Microsoft Corp.'s boisterous chief executive...