From X-bit Labs: Foxconn Electronics, the world's largest contract maker of electronics, has begun mass production of smaller and less expensive version of Apple iPad, also known as iPad mini. The new media tablet will compete directly against recently released Google Nexus 7" and...

From X-bit Labs: Nokia Corp., which has been losing money seriously in the recent quarters, is mulling to sell its headquarters, the Nokia House, and get rid of other non-core assets to improve its cash position, the company said on Wednesday. The firm is going to get up to $388...

From CNET News.com: Deutsche Telekom, parent company to T-Mobile USA, said Wednesday it has struck a merger deal with prepaid regional carrier MetroPCS.

According to the agreement, MetroPCS shareholders will get $1.5 billion in cash and a 26 percent stake in the combined company...

From CNET News.com: Samsung's Galaxy S3 isn't being thwarted by little things like the iPhone 5 or jury verdicts.

Since August 1, sales of the S3 have seen average weekly growth of 9 percent, following by big spikes after the Apple lawsuit verdict and the iPhone 5 announcement...

From DailyTech: Nokia is making deals with all sorts of companies for the use of its mapping technology Navteq, and Oracle is the latest to jump on the bandwagon.

Not many details are known about the Nokia/Oracle partnership other than the fact that it was made official at the...

From X-bit Labs: For over two decades personal computer manufacturing has been migrating from the U.S. and Europe to China, Taiwan and southeast Asian countries. In an attempt to revert the trend, Lenovo Group on Tuesday said that it would start up a U.S. personal computer production...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday officially launched its long-expected Fusion A-series "Trinity" accelerated processing units (APUs) with up to four x86 cores and discrete-class integrated graphics processing units. Although the new desktop chips provide decent...

From CNET News.com: AT&T said today that it would add three more HTC smartphones to its lineup, the HTC One X+, One VX, and Windows Phone 8X.

Windows Phone 8X, which was announced last month, will be available in November, while the One X+ and One VX would be available "in the...

From DailyTech: HTC has announced a new Android smartphone called the HTC One X+, which is a refreshed version of HTC's original One X smartphone. The One X+ uses HTC Sense 4+ and runs the Android Jelly Bean operating system.

The smartphone uses a 1.7 GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3...

From DailyTech: While Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) currently dominates the thriving smartphone commodity display market, a number of Asian rivals are aiming to unseat the South Korean giant. Among them is Japan's Sharp Corp. (TYO:6753).

Sharp announced this week...