From CNET: Apple and other high-profile tech companies sold 4,000 smartphone patents for $900 million to a clearinghouse, the patents' new owner announced Tuesday, in an effort to put a long-fought courtroom battle behind them.

The Apple-led Rockstar Consortium -- which includes Microsoft...

From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) continues to drive the state of the art in the DRAM (memory) market. The company just announced that it was starting mass production of LPDDR4, an industry first.

LPDDR4 is expected to soon be surplanted by the "hybrid...

From PC World: Sony has asked Twitter to suspend the account of a person who is alleged to have posted internal company documents and information released by hackers.

Twitter has also been asked to destroy the "stolen" documents that are in its possession or control.

A letter sent Monday by Sony...

From PC World: High-end smartphones could soon have 4GB of super-fast RAM, resulting in better multi-tasking and the ability to continuously shoot images with 20-megapixel cameras.

The improvements will be possible thanks to Samsung Electronics’ 8 Gigabit LPDDR4 (low power, double data rate)...

From CNET: Apple is updating its Macs to guard against hackers taking control -- the first time a Mac update has been sent out automatically without requiring your permission.

The automated security update protects Apple laptops and desktops from newly discovered security vulnerability CVE-2014...

From DailyTech: Shigeru Miyamoto nearly single-handedly built Japan's Nintendo Comp. Ltd. (TYO:7974) into the world's most iconic gaming company. Now the creator of such iconic franchises as "The Mario Brothers", "Zelda", and "Donkey Kong" is trying to pull Nintendo back from the brink.

In a...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft is open-sourcing its Project Orleans cloud computing framework, but an analyst sees limits in how far the software giant will go with its open licensing efforts.

Orleans, which is used to build production services on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud, was offered as a...

From PC World: Google’s low-cost Android One smartphones will be selling in the coming weeks in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, three small but fast-growing markets, following a September worldwide debut of the devices in India.

The company said it had signed up a number of hardware and network...

From CNET: Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network were pulled from Dish Network's channel lineup late Saturday after negotiations for a new distribution deal broke down.

Dish, which has for weeks been negotiating a new carriage contract for the 21st Century Fox channels, said the channels were...

From DailyTech: Move over, 7-inch tablets, you're phones now. That's the message phonemaker BLU Products is sending with its new 7-inch Android device, the BLU Studio 7.0. Recall that just four years ago, back in 2010 Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) Galaxy Tab defined...