From X-bit Labs: Renesas Electronics Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Monday announced that they have signed an agreement to extend their microcontroller (MCU) technology collaboration to 40nm embedded flash (eFlash) process technology for manufacturing MCU...

From PC World: LG Display has introduced a 5-inch full HD LCD panel for smartphone displays -- the highest resolution mobile panel to date, the company said on Monday.

The widescreen panel is based on AH-IPS (Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching) technology and has a 1920-by...

From DailyTech: Waterloo, Ontario based Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM) used to be the darling of the smartphone industry. For a time "BlackBerry" was almost synonymous with "smartphone", but today RIM has fallen on hard times. It can hardly convince customers to buy its...

From DailyTech: When Hewlett-Packard Comp.'s (HPQ) bold and ultimately doomed webOS experiment was terminated, many assumed that was the end. But it turns out that webOS had more fans than it seemed and many a blog was written bemoaning the loss of innovative features like "swipe to...

From X-bit Labs: In one of the more ironic developments ever to transpire in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, now bankrupt Elpida Memory in the Q1 2012 managed to outperform the overall industry in terms of revenue growth, allowing it to rise one position to take the...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. has confirmed that it would no longer sell netbooks in the U.S. The company will offer customers inexpensive notebooks and ultra-slim notebooks/ultrabooks to those, who demand low cost or high portability. Although the firm will continue to offer...

From PC World: Don't expect any big surprises out of Dell's first Windows 8 tablet aimed at enterprise users.

The unreleased tablet reportedly has a 10.1-inch display with 1366-by-768 resolution, an Intel Clover Trail Atom dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, up to 128 GB of solid...

From DailyTech: The Microsoft Xbox 360 game console should not be imported, and units on store shelves should be pulled, according to an International Trade Commission judge.

Last month, ITC Administrative Law Judge David Shaw found both the 4GB and 250GB editions of the Xbox 360...

From DailyTech: Fox, NBC and CBS are taking Dish Network to court because of a new feature that allows subscribers to skip over commercials in recorded content.

Dish is currently the No. 2 satellite TV provider with 14 million subscribers, and also filed suit to make ad-skipping...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. has clarified statement of its chief executive officer about 500 million licenses of Windows 8 to be sold in 2013. The firm claims that Steve Ballmer re-stated what was said during the unveiling of Windows 8 Store back in December, 2011. Apparently...