From DailyTech: Taiwan's Acer Inc. (TPE:2353) is sick and tired of making "cheap" products. It lusts for the kind sleek designs that highly profitable American computermaker Apple, Inc. (AAPL) produces.

Acer CEO J.T. Wang was blunt when he remarked, "We will shift our strategy to...

From X-bit Labs: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Thursday quietly started to sell a yet unannounced DeskStar hard disk drive with 4TB capacity in Japan. The novelty is quite expensive, but not extremely despite of the fact that it uses components produced in flooded Thailand...

From X-bit Labs: The first images of what is believed to be the next-generation high-end graphics card from Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday emerged on the Internet. The images may point to positioning of new device as well as complexities of the new high-performance code-named...

From InfoWorld: After drifting into the stratosphere last month, hard drive prices are now experiencing some significant decreases. If you absolutely have to buy a hard drive today, the good news is you can expect to pay 30 to 40 percent less than the nosebleed fare just a month ago...

From CNET News.com: As Acer's financial troubles mount, its CEO believes ultrabooks could be just what the company needs to return to profitability.

"Ultrabooks will become our key growth driver next year as customers want a lighter, thinner notebook with longer battery life," Acer...

From CNET News.com: That "something exciting" T-Mobile and Nokia teased yesterday? It's the Lumia 710.

A Federal Communications Commission manual for the Lumia 710 were found by WPCentral today. It essentially confirms that T-Mobile and Nokia will be introducing the device at an...

From DailyTech: RIM is taking a beating on the smartphone market today with the popularity of its smartphone and tablets dwindling. More and more consumers and business, which were the lifeblood of RIM in the past, are leaving for newer and better devices like the iPhone and Android...

From X-bit Labs: dvanced Micro Devices has notified some of the product review web-sites (1, 2) that it had provided misleading transistor count number for its highly-anticipated eight-core microprocessors based on the Bulldozer micro-architecture. The reasons why AMD originally...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Labs, a research arm of Intel Corp., and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan decided to establish the Intel and ITRI Research Collaboration (IIRC). The organization will explore many areas, including future energy-efficient memory...

From InfoWorld: At the Windows Store presentation yesterday, Windows Web Services VP Antoine Leblond mentioned that the much-anticipated Windows 8 beta would arrive in "late February" -- but there's more to the story.

Part of the presentation included a call for developers to submit...