From DailyTech: Samsung's Hummingbird 1 GHz ARM Cortex processor already fares quite well against the 1 GHz Snapdragon in the GLBenchmark, and has helped power impressive sales of the Galaxy S line of Android smartphones across all major U.S. wireless carriers. Now, Samsung is...

From DailyTech: HP has maintained its lead as the largest shipper of computers in the world with the fight for second going back and forth between Dell and Acer. In July of 2010, Acer ousted Dell from the second place spot in the global computer shipment rankings leaving Dell in...

From X-bit Labs: The gap between Via Technologies and two leading suppliers of central processing units seems to be widening. According to unofficial reports from Taiwan, the company only plans to release its first quad-core Via Nano microprocessors in late 2011, about five years...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp., the largest maker of flash memory on the globe, has announced the launch of 8GB, 16GB and 32GB SDHC UHS-I cards, all compliant with the SD memory card standard 3.0 (SD 3.0) that deliver the world's fastest data read and write speeds to date, which can...

From Manufacturing Digital: Dell and HP, two PC making giants were involved in the bidding contest on Friday for 3Par, a data storage company. According to the latest reports, Dell has backed out from the bidding war after realizing that HP has already surpassed Dell’s offer with $2...

From Xbit Labs: A Chinese web-site has published what it claims to be the first image of the next-generation Radeon graphics card. The new board, which the web-site calls "Cayman XT" and which is likely to be the most powerful single-chip solution by ATI, graphics business unit of...

From DailyTech: A new study from market research firm Quantcast offers some interesting insight into the state of the smartphone market. The study looks at trends in North American mobile internet use and how Apple's iOS (the iPhone, iPad), Android, RIM OS (Blackberry), and "Other"...

From PC World: While acknowledging the importance of HTML5, Microsoft stressed this week that its Silverlight rich Internet technology extends the Web beyond what HTML5 allows.

Standards-based multimedia features offered by HTML5 have taken the spotlight lately from proprietary...

From eWeek: Google will pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that argued its Google Buzz social Web service violated users' privacy when it launched in February.

Google will shell out $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with seven people who argued the Google...

From PC World: Swedish police have searched houses belonging to people suspected of illegal file-sharing in Stockholm, Haparanda and Östersund in the last two weeks.

The latest search was made on Friday in Östersund. Police impounded a computer and questioned a suspect, according to...