From DailyTech: Google has recently offered $900 million for Nortel Networks' remaining 6,000 networking and wireless patents.

Nortel Networks is a multinational telecommunication equipment manufacturer from Canada. In January 2009, the company filed for bankruptcy. Since then...

From DailyTech: Nikon has unveiled the new D5100 which is an entry-level D-SLR offered in a kit with an 18-55mm VR lens starting at a MSRP of $899.95. For that price, the camera offers a slew of nice features and specifications for a D-SLR beginner.

The D5100 has a 16.2-megapixel DX...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday again reaffirmed that even though Xeon microprocessors are gaining RAS [reliability, availability, serviceability] capabilities, Intel Itanium platform, which was mainly designed for mission-critical servers with RAS features, will remain...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday officially released a new family of Intel Xeon processors designed for enterprise applications. The new chips feature up to ten cores, up to 30MB of cache as well as advanced security and reliability features. The Xeon E7-series chips are...

From InfoWorld: Intel and Micron plan to further shrink NAND circuitry, doubling the density of their flash chips and further reducing the cost of SSD (solid state drive) storage.

IMFT (IM Flash Technologies), Intel and Micron's joint venture, released 25 nanometer (nm) circuitry a...

From PC World: Sony CEO Howard Stringer and Bloomberg have confirmed that the Android-powered PlayStation gaming tablet is real, and coming sometime before the end of 2011. However, with the company's wobbly financial record, product delays, and the incredibly tough competition it...

From CNET News.com: Dell's upcoming Windows 7 tablet might not hit store shelves until fall, a new report claims.

Citing an anonymous source, Forbes is reporting that Dell plans to launch its 10-inch Windows 7-based tablet as early as September.

Dell hasn't confirmed exactly when...

From DailyTech: Microsoft's "Ribbon" graphical user interface, first introduced with Office 2007, was a dramatic departure from its straightforward menus of yore. It offered users quicker access to more options and more visual cues. But for some, it also brought more distraction...

From DailyTech: Seagate has announced a new product today that it claims is the world's slimmest portable external HDD. The product is called the GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 Drive.

The drive sells for $99.99 and is only 9mm thick, which makes it 38% thinner than the current crop of GoFlex...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a new graphics card designed for mainstream market. The novelty is based on the code-named Barts LE chip, which is a cut-down flavour of the Radeon HD 6800-series graphics processing unit (GPU). AMD claims that its Radeon HD 6790...