From EETimes: The battle over the digital TV market among semiconductor companies is undergoing a quiet but major transformation, as key players reshuffle and target devices multiply.

First, the players doggedly chasing the DTV and set-top market are no longer traditional TV chip vendors. Instead...

From GreenBot: Seemingly under cover of night, Hewlett-Packard, once the world's once mightiest PC maker, unleashed its latest budget Android tablet in the U.S. Similar to the Slate 7 Android tablet that shipped last April, the new HP 8 is priced at $170 and boy do the specs match the price...

From DailyTech: Windows 8.1 may not be a highly regarded in the enthusiast community, but that didn’t stop some Windows 8.1 loyalists from discovering that Windows 8.1 Update 1 was sitting on Microsoft’s servers, ripe for the picking.

Initially, Update 1 was available by simply adding a new key in...

From X-bit Labs: 4K TV display panels have become increasingly available and affordable to TV manufacturers, and Taiwanese panel makers Innolux and AUO are forecast to lead ultra-high-definition (UHD) panel shipments worldwide this year, a least, based on business plans of panel producers...

From PC World: Not all are fans of Lenovo’s recent plan to buy IBM’s x86 server business. Since Monday, close to 1,000 workers at an IBM factory in China have been protesting the proposed acquisition, fearing they may lose their jobs if the deal goes through.

IBM’s x86 server factory in Shenzhen...

From DailyTech: During CES 2014, NVIDIA was showing off a new processor that fits into the Tegra line: the Tegra K1. This week, some benchmarks that are claimed to be from that chip have hit the web.

We already know most of the hardware specs on the K1, including the fact that the chip has 192...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics has announced a new family of wearable gadgets, the Gear 2 smartwatches. The manufacturer slightly changed the internal architecture of its smartwatches in a bid to make them more powerful and more independent than their predecessor. The new devices are powered...

From EETimes: Fairchild Semiconductor of San Jose, Calif., must pay at least $105 million in damages -- possibly three times that amount -- having been found guilty of infringing two patents on power supply ICs held by Power Integrations Inc., also based in San Jose, in a North California district...

From EETimes: The Wall Street Journal reported today that Radio Shack will close 1,100 stores, or about 20% of its total. Frankly, I've wondered how Radio Shack has survived this long anyway.

There is a Radio Shack in my local area, known as Coolidge Corner. I go in once in a while if I happen to...

From PC World: Comcast said Tuesday that it will extend its Internet Essentials program to supply low-cost Internet access "indefinitely," a goodwill gesture as it hopes to complete a $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable.

The Internet Essentials program supplies Internet access for $9.95...