Facebook privacy settings get reworked once again

From CNET News.com: Get ready -- Facebook is making changes to how users access its privacy settings, again. The social network hopes this latest overhaul will make the now bloated process easier to understand, according to a blog post today from Sam Lessin, a director of product...

Sources Claim Sprint, Clearwire Are Close to a Buyout Deal

From DailyTech: The department that handles acquisitions and mergers at Sprint has been very busy lately. Sprint announced that it would be selling a majority stake to Softbank for $20 billion in October. Sprint has also long coveted the wireless spectrum that partner Clearwire holds...

Intel Rolls-Out Atom Processors for Servers

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday introduced the Intel Atom processor S1200-series designed for servers. The new chips support numerous server features to achieve server-class reliability, manageability as well as cost effectiveness and are among the most power-efficient server...

Google offloads Motorola's China, Brazil factories

From CNET News.com: Google's Motorola Mobility unit has signed a deal to sell its Chinese manufacturing operations to Flextronics, which has agreed to run its Brazil facility as well.

Under the deal, announced yesterday, employees and assets will transfer to Flextronics once the...

Samsung, Apple Dominate Global Smart Connected Device Market in Q3

From DailyTech: Research firm IDC has published its latest results for the worldwide smart connected device market covering Q3 of 2012. The market grew significantly during the quarter to the tune of 27.1% year-over-year. The quarter reached a record of 303.6 million shipments valued...

RIM Gets Sued for Bluetooth Tech Patent Infringement

From DailyTech: It seems as though everyone is picking on RIM these days. Last month we talked about RIM losing a patent infringement case to Nokia relating to Wi-Fi technology.

Today we learned that RIM is involved in a new patent suit that has been filed by Wi-LAN in the U.S...

Toshiba's STT-MRAM Memory Promises World's Best Power Consumption

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. has announced that the company has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the world's lowest power consumption yet reported, indicating that it has the potential to...

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