Android smartphone shipments soared 145 percent in the first quarter to 89.9 million units. Apple's iPhone hit unit shipments of 35.1 million. [Read more]

Found at the Maker Faire: A few solar-powered tinkerers selling, for the first time, open-source construction kits based on an old design. [Read more]

Apple dominates tablet market

ARM is a British CPU design company that develops and licenses the well-known ARM architecture. Lately, the performance of ARM-based CPUs has become comparable with low-power x86 counterparts, and the company reportedly foresees that they'd own over 20% of the mobile PC market by 2015. ARM is currently the king ...

The world's largest social network's shares are down, despite ending their first day on the market above their initial price. [Read more]

You'd think that a company fresh out of revealing a new, color, flexible display technology for e-readers would scramble to get such an item out as soon as possible.Plastic Logic has just finished smashing and grinding into dust that particular assumption, having announced that it will not, in fact, ...

South Korean electronics giant loses $10 billion in market value -- all because of a report in DigiTimes. [Read more]

As we've established in our previous article, storage density is not going to increase any faster in the following years and as such, the performance bumps will be mediocre at best. When it comes to hybrid drives, WD openly exposes Seagate’s rip-off, as the company admits the fact that ...

Microsoft's gaming platform is keeping up its hot streak as the best-selling console in the U.S., though the rest of the industry is still on a downslide. [Read more]

It’s clear that HDD capacity is still in high demand and the demand will only grow in the following years. That’s why profit mongering HDD company Western Digital has reportedly discussed new technologies to increase the capacities and performance of its products, yesterday at a conference in Vienna, Austria. ...

Android may not have the walled garden of the iPhone, but a new partnership between AVG and Livewire looks to make third-party markets more secure without sacrificing openness. [Read more]

Leapfrog may just be the mini-Apple for kids ages 4 to 9. [Read more]