From DailyTech: It hasn't been a good week to be an employee at Motorola Mobility with Google's hardware making arm announcing additional layoffs. Motorola Mobility has announced that it will shed 10% of its global workforce (roughly 1,200 employees). The cuts are in addition to the...

From X-bit Labs: Executives from Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of computer chips, and Apple, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics companies, discussed chip manufacturing contract last year, according to a media report. In case the two giants manage to agree on a...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has already introduced Tesla K20-series compute cards and GeForce GTX Titan graphics cards for consumers based on the GK110 graphics processing unit. Currently the company is at work on a professional graphics card based on the world’s highest-performing...

From CNET News.com: There's been some worry that Microsoft's Windows team may be waiting until the "Blue" upgrade to Windows 8 and Windows RT to refresh the Microsoft-developed, first-party apps that are bundled with the operating system.

I'm hearing from my contacts that this is...

From DailyTech: Patriot announced its AERO wireless mobile hard drive this week, which is ideal for sharing content with any smartphone, laptop or tablet.

The AERO wireless mobile hard drive features the option of 500GB or 1TB storage capacities; Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; Internet pass...

From DailyTech: Microsoft Research posted a YouTube video that shows off new Kinect technology, which may be available in time for the new Xbox console.

The video, which features Microsoft researcher Cem Keskin, shows how "Kinect 2.0" captures movement of the hands more accurately...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics companies as well as a leading maker of personal computers, will stop selling its Ativ Tab media tablet powered by Microsoft Corp.’s Windows RT operating system. The company cited low demand towards...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics and Sharp Corp. on Wednesday announced that the former will invest $110 million into the latter. The money should help troubled Sharp to survive, whereas Samsung will get around 3.09 Stake in the company known for its consumer electronics as well...

From CNET News.com: The handset maker reported that its sales in February fell 44 percent to 11.3 million New Taiwan dollars ($380,400) from a year ago, the lowest level in three years. On a month-over-month basis, sales had fallen 27 percent.

HTC is hoping the company has hit...

From DailyTech: Apple has been talking with Beats Electronics LLC about the music company's new streaming service -- "Project Daisy" -- as the tech giant looks into a streaming service of its own.

Apple CEO Tim Cook made a trip to Los Angeles in late February to meet with Beats CEO...