From X-bit Labs: IBM has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Texas Memory Systems (TMS), a leading developer of high-performance flash memory solutions. Analysts believe that IBM’s Texas Memory Systems buy indicates flash storage will play a prominent role...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Thursday unleashed its new graphics card based on Kepler architecture that the company positions as an ultimate solution for gamers. The novelty is based on the well-known GK104 chip with 1344 stream processors and thus provides excellent performance...

From CNET News.com: The Justice Department's proposed settlement with three book publishers over alleged e-book price fixing is "fundamentally unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented," Apple said in a legal memo today.

In an antitrust lawsuit filed in April, federal prosecutors accused...

From DailyTech: The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) met recently to issue a draft international standard of a new video compression format offering twice the performance of current standards. The new video compression format is called High Efficiency Video Coating or HEVC. The...

From DailyTech: For many years, if a PC gamer wanted high-quality audio and sound effects for their video games, they had to add a sound card to the mix. As integrated audio technology on most main boards and gaming computers improved, the sound card became redundant for many gamers...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has released processor product data sheet documents covering specifications of low-cost AMD Athlon II and AMD Sempron central processing units (CPUs) that belong to family 15h better known as Trinity. The new low-cost chips will support all the...

From X-bit Labs: Although Nvidia Corp. introduced its cloud graphics solutions for gamers and professionals earlier year and even added appropriate hardware functionality into select graphics processing units (GPUs) based on Kepler architecture, the company does not expect cloud...

From CNET News.com: Google's program to pay outsiders who find Chrome security vulnerabilities is working well enough that the company has concluded it's time to add new financial rewards.

"Recently, we've seen a significant drop-off in externally reported Chromium security issues...

From DailyTech: Corsair is a company that has made it's name in the computer hardware market for years with RAM and then expanded into power supplies, gaming peripherals, and cooling devices. Corsair has now announced that it acquired Raptor Gaming to expand its PC gaming product...

From DailyTech: Windows RT -- the branded name for Windows on ARM architecture chips -- is bad news for some Windows enthusiasts. The critical release marks the first major personal computer Windows release in which Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has turned away from a direct-sales model...