From DailyTech: Just when Samsung seems to have a bit of luck in Australia with the ongoing patent war, Apple comes along and throws more patent claims on the table.

According to Samsung, Apple recently expanded its patent claims against the South Korean company's Galaxy Tab 10.1 in...

From DailyTech: From talking about "baking cookies" to drawing Saturday morning cartoon characters, smartphone maker Research in Motion, Ltd.'s (TSE:RIM) has been behaving a bit erratically of late. The troubled company is still solidly profitable, but has seen its sales and profits...

From X-bit Labs: At its financial analyst day event on Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices disclosed peculiarities of its forthcoming platform for ultrathin laptops. The code-named Trinity accelerated processing unit in ball-grid array form-factor will let PC makers to create notebooks...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has cancelled its multi-core Opteron server chips code-named Sepang (up to 10 cores) and Terramar (up to 20 cores) that were supposed to be launched in 2012. Moreover, the company decided to keep the existing server platform for its 2012 - 2013...

From PC World: HTC is moving quickly to squash a security flaw that could expose Wi-Fi credentials on the company's Android phones.

Using an app that takes advantage of this flaw, an attacker could harvest SSID names and passwords for all wireless networks that the phone has...

From CNET News.com: A Paris court earlier this week ordered Google France and its parent company Google to pay plaintiff Bottin Cartographes 500,000 euros (about $660,000) for providing its free mapping services to businesses across the country. The court also required Google to pay...

From DailyTech: Massive flooding ravaged Thailand late last year. The problem for storage vendors such as Seagate and Western Digital was that much of the hard drive production that supplies the computer technology world is done in Thailand. The flooding meant many employees were...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) announced the original iPad in January 2010, and it hit the market in April 2010. The polished device was undeniably a game-changing product that turned an often-overlooked niche (tablets) into a booming market. It was about this time last year...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has begun shipments of Atom-based system-on-chip for so-called micro-servers. The new processor will likely become available this year and will enable server manufacturers to create ultra-dense machines with low power consumption.

As reported previously...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to secure its mission-critical HP-UX platform, Hewlett-Packard has paid Intel Corp. around $690 to keep Itanium microprocessor alive till 2017 and update it in timely manner, court findings reveal.

Back in 2008 the maker of servers paid Intel $440 million...