From CNET News.com: Google has announced that Asus will be unveiling a Google TV product at CES 2013, rumored to be the Qube set-top box.

Asus is traditionally known as a PC manufacturer but will join other new partners Hisense and TCL by releasing Google TV products in 2013. Google...

From DailyTech: Three weeks after its 2009 launch, Windows 7 had seized 4 percent of the operating system (OS) market, and would go on to become the fastest selling OS in Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) history. Three years later and Microsoft has another release -- Windows 8. But some...

From DailyTech: Back in 2011 Intel Corp. (INTC) made the bold promise that it would accelerate its release schedule on the mobile front to push out 22 nm smartphone system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs by 2013. Dubbed ValleyView, the chip was expected to feature between one and four of...

From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is set to start experimental production of chips for Apple already this quarter, according to a media report. The collaboration between the world’s largest contract maker of chips and the major consumer electronics company was...

From X-bit Labs: Marvell this week announced the availability of the Marvell DragonFly Nvdrive, a turnkey enterprise-class PCIe SSD caching solution with built-in SSD modules that extends the company’s DragonFly NvCache and NVRAM adapter product offerings first announced last August...

From CNET News.com: Huawei's Ascend P1 smartphone has finally landed in the U.S.

The device, which made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show last year and cleared regulatory hurdles all the way back in May, is available starting today on Amazon for $449.99. At that price...

From DailyTech: In an attempt to broaden its Xbox business, Microsoft has acquired a Silicon Valley startup that will bring new digital patents to the table.

Microsoft got its hands on id8 Group R2 Studios Inc., better known as R2 Studios, which launched in 2011 by entrepreneur...

From DailyTech: With over 20 million active users worldwide, Ubuntu -- published by Canonical Ltd. -- is widely claimed to be the "fastest growing" PC version of Linux. A 2012 poll by LifeHacker saw 51 percent of respondents calling Ubuntu their favor Linux distro, well ahead of the...

From X-bit Labs: It is not a secret that Advanced Micro Devices intends to showcase the first accelerated processing units (APUs) based on its new low-power Jaguar x86 general-purpose cores behind closed-doors at the Consumer Electronics Show later this month. Apparently, AMD also...

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard, one of the world’s largest IT and technology companies, added a clause into its filing with the U.S. securities and exchange commission (SEC) saying that the company may spin-off or sell business divisions that do not meet financial targets. The...