From CNET News.com: Sony sold an impressive amount of PlayStation hardware in the U.S. over Thanksgiving: 525,000 PlayStation 3 consoles and 160,000 PS Vita bundles.

The number of PlayStation devices sold fell short of Microsoft and Nintendo's surprising announcements earlier this...

From DailyTech: Microsoft launched its first in-house tablet in late October, the Surface RT. Priced at $499 for a 32GB model, initial sales have been on the tepid side. However, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is confident that the device will catch on in the face of strong competition...

From X-bit Labs: Although Advanced Micro Devices recently announced plans to design various system-on-chips based on ARM architecture, the company believes that the x86 instruction set will remain very important for the industry for decades to come. Quite possibly, the claim was made...

From X-bit Labs: The new chief executive officer of OCZ Technology Group said the company is back on the right track, but it will take some time before the new strategy starts to bring in fruits. The SSD maker ceased to rely on sole supplier of NAND flash memory, reduced its...

From InfoWorld: Apple's iPhone 5 appears to have cleared the last hurdle in a series of Chinese regulatory checks, opening the way for the device to finally be sold in one of the company's largest markets.

On Thursday, two iPhone models received the necessary network access licenses...

From DailyTech: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is selling its Texas campus as a result of the sluggish PC market.

Chip maker AMD said it will sell and lease back its 58-acre Austin, Texas campus for $150 million to $200 million. It hopes to close the deal in Q2 2013.

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From DailyTech: Windows 8 was an incredibly bold redesign on the part on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). The move to a more touch-friendly, graphically rich operating system certainly seemed to mirror the general direction of the device market, but that did not shield Microsoft from loads...

From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer, Nvidia Corp. PNY and some other companies have started to sell Tesla K20 GPGPU accelerators based on code-named GK110 processor featuring enhanced Kepler architecture optimized for computing with double precision. The cards cost from around $3200 in...

From X-bit Labs: Sales of smartphones based on Windows Phone operating system have quadrupled compared to the same time last year thanks to the launch of Windows Phone 8 platform. Moreover, in many countries WP8-based handsets from Nokia and HTC are sold out. With strong sales of...

From CNET News.com: Ailing smartphone maker HTC has hired a new marketing chief to help turn the company around amid a continuing financial downturn.

Benjamin Ho, the former vice president of business strategy and marketing at Taiwanese network FarEasTone and former chief marketing...