From CNET News.com: Smartphone buyers eager to grab the Nokia Lumia 800 face good news and bad news. The Windows Phone handset will reportedly hit the U.S. next Tuesday, but it could carry a price tag of $899.

Citing "sources close to Microsoft's Lumia launch plans," The Verge...

From DailyTech: The mobile phone world hasn't been kind to Nokia over the last year or so. While the company is still the biggest seller of mobile phones in the world, the vast majority the phones that it sells or lower profitability basic phones and feature phones. Nokia has so far...

From DailyTech: Taiwan's Acer Inc. (TPE:2353) is in a troubled spot. The company's PC sales have been plunging internationally at a time when competitors like Apple, Inc. (AAPL) and the Hong Kong-based Lenovo Group, Ltd. (HKG: 0992) are growing. Acer's tablet is a flop. And...

From X-bit Labs: Several suppliers of high-end laptops have unveiled new desktop replacement (DTR) notebooks that are powered by Intel Corp.'s latest Core i7-series microprocessors in LGA2011 form-factor with up to six x86 cores that power top-of-the-range desktops. At present the...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices denied on Tuesday that IBM had started to make chips on contract basis for the company. AMD said that IBM only provided consulting services to Globalfoundries, contract maker of AMD's microprocessors, so that to enable it to boost yields of...

From PC World: Motorola's Droid 4, with its physical QWERTY keyboard, arrives Friday for $200 to round out Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE smartphone roster.

Like its predecessor, which launched only seven months ago, the Droid 4 has a 4-inch qHD display, 16 GB of internal storage, an 8...

From CNET News.com: Yahoo's e-mail service was tripped up by a disruption today that temporarily kept some users from accessing their messages.

A flood of users took to Twitter to complain about the outage today. It's unclear how widespread the problem is, but monitoring site...

From DailyTech: After announcing the new D4 flagship D-SLR at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last month, Nikon is now announcing its second full frame D-SLR of the year: the D800 Digital SLR.

The new D800 doesn't quite match up to the high-end D4, but is instead the smaller and...

From DailyTech: HTC Corp. (TPE:2498) long toiled as a original device maker (ODM), producing PDAs for the likes of Hewlett-Packard Comp. (HPQ). But the Taiwanese electronics firm in 2007 saw its chance to step out from behind the curtain, when Google Inc. (GOOG) revealed a new open...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Monday introduced a new family of solid-state drives that combine high-performance, high-capacity and reliability. The new SSDs are based on 25nm MLC NAND flash memory and SandForce controller, use Serial ATA-6Gb/s and are aimed at PC enthusiasts...