From DailyTech: One of the good things about being the largest software company on the planet is that you have a seriously big checkbook. Given its generous cash position, Microsoft has reportedly spent $1 billion securing exclusive games for the launch of the Xbox One game console...

From DailyTech: Samsung has pulled the wraps off a new smartphone in its Galaxy family called the Galaxy S 4 Mini. The new device is a more compact version of the Galaxy S 4 that has been a bestseller for Samsung since its launch.

The lightweight (107 grams) S 4 Mini has a 4.3-inch...

From X-bit Labs: While PlayStation Vita already has a number of high-quality titles that offer better gameplay compared to games developed for other mobile platforms, it will gain another huge boost later this year as all games developed for the PlayStation 4 will be required to...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday unveiled a new family of low-power server processors: the AMD Opteron X-series optimized for scale-out server architectures. AMD Opteron X-series, previously known as Kyoto, are based on x86 Jaguar general-purpose cores and feature...

From CNET News.com: The Galaxy S4 Mini won't be quite as beefy as its bigger brother, at least according to alleged specs leaked online.

Benchmark results reportedly obtained by German blog site All About Samsung show the Mini powered by Qualcomm's dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor...

From DailyTech: Research firm IDC has published its worldwide quarterly tracker that looks at tablet shipments all around the globe. The report expects shipments for tablets to grow 58.7% year-over-year in 2013. The prediction is for 229.3 million units to ship, representing a...

From DailyTech: Microsoft has offered many types achievements and trophies performing specific tasks while gaming on the Xbox 360. Gamers are awarded trophies for finishing certain races, completing a certain amount of kills in a shooter, etc.

Polygon is now reporting that Microsoft...

From X-bit Labs: ARM announced that LG Electronics has licensed the next generation of ARM Cortex-A50 series of central processing unit (CPU) solutions and the next generation of ARM Mali graphics processing units (GPUs). This agreement means that LG Electronics will have access to...

From X-bit Labs: Gigabyte Technology, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has announced Gigabyte Brix, an ultra-compact PC-series, combining an incredibly small and sleek form-factor chassis design with a choice of high-performance Intel Core i-series “Ivy...

From CNET News.com: Western Digital announced today the WD Se SATA 3.5-inch standard hard drive, which offers up to 4TB of storage space.

While it's not the first hard drive with this top capacity -- both WD and Seagate have had other 4TB hard drives -- WD says that the new WD Se is...