From CNET News.com: Google has added a small but important upgrade to its Google Translate service that's meant to help you understand foreign tongues better.

The tech giant's upgrade to the feature comes in three parts. According to the Google Translate blog, "Reverse translations"...

From CNET News.com: Android commanded the worldwide smartphone market share in the third quarter, new data from research firm IDC has revealed.

With a whopping 75 percent of market share and more than 181 million smartphones shipped, Android's operating system is apparently just...

From DailyTech: CircuitCity.com and CompUSA.com will now be absorbed by computer/electronics retailer TigerDirect in an effort to combine brands for an easier business model.

Systemax, a multi-channel retailer of consumer electronics that heads TigerDirect, CompUSA and Circuit City...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics said Friday that in little more than a month it managed to sell three million Galaxy Note II smartphones. The milestone not only illustrates rising popularity of expensive Samsung smartphones, but also growing adoption of handsets with ultra-large...

From X-bit Labs: Globalfoundries, the world’s second largest contract maker of semiconductors, has recently adjusted its expansion plans with the aim to become profitable by the year 2015. The company decided to postpone building of its semiconductor fab in Abu Dhabi by several years...

From CNET News.com: AT&T and T-Mobile, the two GSM carriers in the U.S., have turned on a database designed to cut back on smartphone theft.

The database went live yesterday and allows either AT&T or T-Mobile to block a device from being used on either network. In order to do that...

From DailyTech: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) announced on Monday that it would be releasing new 64-bit Opterons in 2014 leveraging a radically different architecture to its current complex instruction set computer (CISC) x86 architecture -- ARM Holdings plc's (LON:ARM) reduced...

From DailyTech: Typically, ASUS and Google keep sales figures very hush hush. ASUS makes the Nexus 7 tablet for Google and recently an executive told the Wall Street Journal some of the most detailed information on sales statistics for the Nexus 7 tablet so far.

ASUS CFO David Chang...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology on Wednesday confirmed that it had developed its 5mm thick storage devices for ultra-slim mobile applications and that it had already submitted its fourth-generation hybrid hard drives for evaluation by computer makers. The company also said it...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group on Wednesday said that it had begun the process of restructuring, under which it shrinks its product lines and reduces its workforce. The company calls its actions initial steps to make its business more efficient and profitable.

"We are...