From X-bit Labs: Sales of smartphones based on Google Android operating system are growing rapidly thanks to high number of different models that run the OS available across the world. Apparently, about 300 thousand of Android-based mobile phones are purchased daily, the number...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. confirmed that its yet-to-be-built D1X manufacturing facility is constructed to be compatible with equipment that processes large 450mm wafers. Unfortunately, the company yet has to outline concrete plans to transit the fab to 450mm and whether the...

From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making it possible for developers to directly integrate mobile applications for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and also apps for Android-based smartphones, with its cloud using two new beta SDKs (software development kits), it said...

From PC World: Dell said Thursday it is in advanced talks with storage vendor Compellent Technologies regarding a merger that would call for Dell to pay US$27.50 per share, or roughly $876 million, for the company.

The companies gave no assurances that a deal will be consummated...

From CNET News.com: Twitter yesterday put an end to rumors that it's blocking WikiLeaks-related terms from its list of trending topics--the most popular phrases appearing at a given time throughout the microblogging service.

The reason why terms like #wikileaks and #cablegate fell...

From CNET News.com: Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors in at least some models of the popular laptops, sources have told CNET.

Intel's newest...

From DailyTech: Determined not to be left behind as society transitions towards a more mobile computing paradigm, Intel vowed to deliver strong entries to the tablet and smartphone sectors. At a Barclays Capital 2010 Global Technology Conference, it delivered an update on its...

From DailyTech: Verizon Communication's CEO Ivan Seidenberg believes that his company's 4G LTE network could one day become a "modest substitute" for traditional cable and Internet, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Seidenberg had previously predicted the trend of cord-cutting --...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices does not plan to give a special brand-name to its code-named Ontario and Zacate accelerated processing units (APUs) with x86 and graphics engines in the same chip, but will instead market the new chips under already established "Vision"...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has unveiled its second graphics board based on the GF110 graphics processing unit (GPU). The novelty offers performance levels similar to those of previous-generation GeForce GTX 480 flagship solution, but with much lower power consumption, quieter...