From CNET News.com: Though it won't reach store shelves until next month, Amazon's new Kindle Fire is already the target of a patent lawsuit.

A company called Smartphone Technologies filed the suit last Friday in Texas Eastern District Court accusing the Fire tablet of violating...

From DailyTech: AT&T, Inc. hasn't exactly always been the heaviest proponent of Android, instead pushing hard offerings like the Apple, Inc. iPhone -- long an AT&T exclusive -- and Research in Motion, Ltd. business-minded Blackberry smartphone lineup. But with RIM's sales slumping...

From X-bit Labs: ARM and United Microelectronics Corp., a leading global semiconductor foundry, have announced a long-term agreement that provides UMC foundry customers with access to the latest advanced ARM Artisan physical IP solutions validated on UMC's 28HPM process technology...

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard reportedly scheduled a meeting on Tuesday where it plans to try to decide the future of its webOS/Palm business unit that produced smartphones and media tablets. The rumour has it that HP had already finished its "initial bidding" for the unit and...

From Tom's Hardware: For the second time in Windows history, a new release of Windows will not increase its memory system requirements, but rather it will remain the same or even go down. Windows 7 required a minimum of 1 GB, the same as Windows Vista, which also asked for 1 GB...

From InfoWorld: Google has launched a preview version of a new Web programming language, called Dart, which the company's engineers hope will address some of the shortcomings of the widely used JavaScript language.

Google's goals for Dart are to create "a structured yet flexible...

From DailyTech: Intel has been working hard to get the notebook realm to adopt its new Ultrabook platform. The chipmaker has vowed to secure a large portion of the notebook market with the Ultrabook platform. The big selling point of the Ultrabook that has been touted so far is the...

From eWeek: Apple announced that preorders of its iPhone 4S have topped 1 million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day preorder record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. The iPhone 4S is the company's latest smartphone and comes with new features including Apple's dual-core...

From DailyTech: Qwikster, a subsidiary of Netflix that was created last month, was set to be Netflix's separate DVD-only business. This means an entirely different account with a different website and billing for customers, despite the fact that it is owned and operated by Netflix...

From X-bit Labs: Even though the first breed of smartphones based on Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" operating system will feature morally outdated system-on-chip devices and will lack support of high-speed wireless Internet, eventually they will catch up with flagship models based on...