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China Times is reporting that Microsoft is only letting an elite few companies build Windows RT tablets in order to focus its research and development resources. It reportedly asked three chipmakers to pick up to two OEMs to bring inside the tent, wi...

It's taken just over a month for Nokia to get everything in place, but its now announced that around 50 "world-class imaging specialists" have joined Espoo's already substantial mobile imaging department, alongside a stack of Scalado's technologies a...

Unless you've been buying your Android gadgets exclusively from Google's Play store, chances to get your hands on the latest iteration of its mobile OS are still pretty rare. Color us surprised, then, when ZTE announce that one of its humbler handset...

Godzilla, a Japanese movie monster that made its debut in the 1954 film "Godzilla", has become a worldwide pop culture icon and featured in video games, novels, comic books, as well as television series. We've rounded up seven rarely seen behind-...

The long wait for LTE in the UK has already brought new levels of cynicism to a once earnest and optimistic nation, but now, finally, Ofcom has set itself a deadline for auctioning off the prized 4G spectrum to telecoms companies. In a major report p...

One of the original "non-manufacturing IP firms," NTP, has just signed an agreement with 13 of the companies it sued for infringing its email patents. The tech industry whales paying for licenses include Google, Microsoft and Yahoo on the software si...

Sure, all of these animals are limited to just a few set phrases (or words for that matter), but they've become internet stars just based on the fact that they can talk like a real human. They range from cats to dogs and even a couple birds. Cont...

Sure, all of these animals are limited to just a few set phrases (or words for that matter), but they've become internet stars just based on the fact that they can talk like a real human. They range from cats to dogs and even a couple birds. Cont...

ARM and TSMC are renewing their vows and plan to continue collaborating well into the future, as they work to optimize the 64-bit v8 architecture for the Taiwanese company's FinFET transistor tech. The two will push next-gen ARM chips to 20nm and bey...

August Capital, the 17-year-old Sand Hill venture capital firm, is raising a new $550 million investment fund, according to documents filed this morning with the SEC. August Partner Howard Hartenbaum has since confirmed the firm's raise, which is its sixth fund to date. It closed its previous, $650 million fund in March of 2009. The firm's new raise consists of two funds, its core fund, which the partner says the firm will use to continue investing in early-stage companies -- through its tried and true larger series A and seed investments. Then there's its $250 million "Special Opportunities Fund," which August will use for opportunistic investments, growth equity, some buyout -- a mixed bag of investment types at the other end of the growth spectrum. A potpourri, if you will.