From X-bit Labs: Via Technologies, a leading designer of controllers and low-power microprocessors, has decided to enter rapidly growing market of controllers for solid-state drives (SSDs). The company selected Tensilica's Xtensa dataplane processors (DPUs) for a system-on-chip (SoC)...

From X-bit Labs: Sales of Nvidia Corp. dropped across-the-board in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2012 (ended January 29, 2012) due to supply constraints of hard drives, expectations for better professional solutions and decline of demand for Tegra 2 system-on-chip. For the whole...

From PC World: Google has issued a fix that changes the behavior of Google Wallet prepaid cards to prevent abuse. The ability to add new prepaid cards to Google Wallet has been restored, and the mobile payment system is back in business.

Following revelations that an unauthorized...

From CNET News.com: Apple has asked a bankruptcy court judge for permission to sue Eastman Kodak over alleged patent infringement.

The iPhone maker filed its request with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York. Apple says that it plans to file a complaint...

From DailyTech: LG Electronics Inc. (KS:066570) has certainly struggled during the smartphone era, which has led to some high-profile executive attrition. But things finally appear to be looking up. The company's smartphone division became profitable in 2011 for the first time in...

From DailyTech: WebOS is relatively defunct at Hewlett-Packard Comp. (HPQ), but it's not quite dead. While the company reportedly continues to trim the already skeleton crew team of webOS staffers, the company has also continued to do a respectable job offering up open source...

From X-bit Labs: Hard disk drive (HDD) supplies in the first quarter commenced their recovery from the disastrous floods that struck Thailand in late 2011; still, a full recovery of production is still months away, with unit shipments not expected to return to annual growth until the...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday today disclosed several features for the company's next-generation communications platform, code-named "Crystal Forest”. The platform will handle data processing across the network more efficiently and securely, while addressing the specialized...

From PC World: Samsung's first tablet running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the Galaxy Tab 2 announced today, succeeds the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab with little change besides the latest software.

Don’t expect anything groundbreaking in the specs department: the Galaxy Tab 2 runs...

From CNET News.com: The ultrabook is the latest fad being pushed by PC vendors. But these lightweight laptops are unlikely to lift the market this year, according to J.P Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz.

Trying to capture the success of Apple's MacBook Air, PC makers announced a slew...