From CNET News.com: Just when things couldn't get much worse for Nokia -- the mobile phone maker's credit rating is taking it on the chin.

Standard & Poor's today cut the rating for the Finnish mobile phone maker to junk, anticpating lower sales ahead.

Following a similar move by...

From DailyTech: Amazon (AMZN) released its Q1 2012 financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, where it saw a decline in earnings but managed to top previous forecasts.

According to the report, Amazon's net sales increased 34 percent to $13.18 billion in Q1 2012 compared...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital on Thursday said that it had managed to significantly restore production capacities after devastating flooding in Thailand in October, 2011. In the Q3 of the company's FY2012 (ended on March 30, 2012) WD itself and its Hitachi GST subsidiary (which...

From X-bit Labs: It is not a secret that performance, cost and power efficiency of chips depend on actual design as well as on process technology. A good chip design and advanced process technology almost always result in a proper product. But to make the best chip, its design has to...

From InfoWorld: Reports indicate that the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone will be announced by mid-August and will be launched in October, somewhat earlier than expected.

An October launch would give Research in Motion several weeks' advantage with holiday sales, which are much...

From PC World: Intel researchers hope the cloud will provide a new model to deliver accurate information about the quality of air and weather within meters of where a user is standing, which could ultimately help improve the quality of life.

Intel has a project under way to populate...

From DailyTech:
With the Galaxy S3 super-phone from the world's top Android phonemaker, Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930), set to launch at a special event in London, UK on May 3, the hot question on everyone's mind is what might be inside. Samsung might have tipped its...

From DailyTech: Acer continues to look forward to a better 2012 after having a stormy 2011 and recent problems with management. Acer is currently ranked as the fourth largest computer shipper in the world and the company says that Q2 2012 looks relatively normal compared to the first...

From X-bit Labs: As its bigger rival struggles to deliver sufficient amount of chips produced using 28nm process technology, United Microelectronics Corp. claims that it is progressing smoothly with the roll-out of the technology. The firm has already delivered samples of 28nm chips...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has quietly slashed pricing of its top-of-the-range eight-core AMD FX-8150 central processing units and adjusted pricing of some other chips in the light of the Intel Core i-series "Ivy Bridge" product launch. The eight-core flagship offering...