Nokia to Cease Manufacturing Operations in Europe

From X-bit Labs: One of the indisputable trumps that Nokia has had throughout its history is exceptional build quality of its handsets. Partly, this was conditioned by manufacturing in well-developed countries, such as Finland, Germany or Mexico. Due to massive losses that the...

Rambus, Nvidia Settle Lawsuits, Sign IC Patent Deal

From PC World: Rambus and Nvidia have settled past lawsuits and signed a patent agreement covering a broad range of integrated circuit products, Rambus said on Wednesday.

Under the patent agreement, Nvidia will be able to use Rambus technology in its products. The patent agreement...

Nokia Lumia 800 reportedly launching Feb. 14 for $899

From CNET News.com: Smartphone buyers eager to grab the Nokia Lumia 800 face good news and bad news. The Windows Phone handset will reportedly hit the U.S. next Tuesday, but it could carry a price tag of $899.

Citing "sources close to Microsoft's Lumia launch plans," The Verge...

Nokia to Axe 4,000 Workers, Looks to Asia for Manufacturing

From DailyTech: The mobile phone world hasn't been kind to Nokia over the last year or so. While the company is still the biggest seller of mobile phones in the world, the vast majority the phones that it sells or lower profitability basic phones and feature phones. Nokia has so far...

Ex-Acer CEO Slapped With Lawsuit for Joining Lenovo

From DailyTech: Taiwan's Acer Inc. (TPE:2353) is in a troubled spot. The company's PC sales have been plunging internationally at a time when competitors like Apple, Inc. (AAPL) and the Hong Kong-based Lenovo Group, Ltd. (HKG: 0992) are growing. Acer's tablet is a flop. And...

Notebook Makers Integrate Intel Sandy Bridge-E Chips into Laptops

From X-bit Labs: Several suppliers of high-end laptops have unveiled new desktop replacement (DTR) notebooks that are powered by Intel Corp.'s latest Core i7-series microprocessors in LGA2011 form-factor with up to six x86 cores that power top-of-the-range desktops. At present the...

AMD Denies Building Chips at IBM's Factories

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices denied on Tuesday that IBM had started to make chips on contract basis for the company. AMD said that IBM only provided consulting services to Globalfoundries, contract maker of AMD's microprocessors, so that to enable it to boost yields of...

Motorola Droid 4 Lands at Verizon on February 10

From PC World: Motorola's Droid 4, with its physical QWERTY keyboard, arrives Friday for $200 to round out Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE smartphone roster.

Like its predecessor, which launched only seven months ago, the Droid 4 has a 4-inch qHD display, 16 GB of internal storage, an 8...

Yahoo Mail suffers disruption, outage

From CNET News.com: Yahoo's e-mail service was tripped up by a disruption today that temporarily kept some users from accessing their messages.

A flood of users took to Twitter to complain about the outage today. It's unclear how widespread the problem is, but monitoring site...

Nikon Announces 36.3MP D800, D800E D-SLRs

From DailyTech: After announcing the new D4 flagship D-SLR at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last month, Nikon is now announcing its second full frame D-SLR of the year: the D800 Digital SLR.

The new D800 doesn't quite match up to the high-end D4, but is instead the smaller and...

Subscribe to Daily Computer & Technology News, Reviews, Discussion