Hard Drive-Based PCs Maintain Near-Term Dominance over SSDs in Notebook Market

Despite sluggish sales, conventional notebook PCs equipped with hard disk drives (HDD) as their main storage medium are unlikely to have their market share threatened in the near term by Microsoft's new Surface tablet PC or by rival notebooks that entirely eliminate HDDs and instead employ solid state drives (SSD), according to an IHS iSuppli.

TVs and Blu-ray Players Will Surpass Game Consoles as Connected Devices in the Home

Connected TV penetration in North America and Western Europe will surge from just over 10% in 2011 to over 50% by 2017, according to ABI Research. Blu-ray penetration is expected to have a similar progression, increasing from about 25% in Western Europe and North America in 2011 to over 76% by 2017 (standalone and game consoles included).

Viacom, DirecTV Reach Agreement, Renew Carriage of Viacom's Networks

Viacom and DirecTV said they reached an agreement to restore Viacom networks to the satellite TV provider's 20 million U.S. subscribers.

New Thunderbolt Chip Coming Next Year

Intel reportedly plans to release a new version of its Thunderbolt chip in the second quarter of 2013 along with the launch its Haswell processors.

TSMC Sees Chip Market To Stall

TSMC chairman and CEO Morris Chang warned that a slowdown is coming to the chip market and has cut his forecast for the total semiconductor market's annual growth.

Pioneer Introduces New Home Speakers

Pioneer today unveiled its next line of home theater and music speakers designed by Pioneer?s chief speaker engineer, Andrew Jones.

Ad Business Help Google's Quarterly Results

Google said second-quarter revenue surged 35 percent, helped by its acquisition of Motorola Mobility and as more users clicked on advertisements.

Microsoft Reports Fourth-Quarter Loss

Microsoft posted its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company on Thursday, mainly due to its struggling online ad business, at a time where the company is prepared for one of the biggest product updates in its history, Windows 8.

AMD Says CPU Sales May Slump To Single Digits

Annual PC processor sales may slow to "a new baseline" of low second-digit growth long term, said AMD, which reported an 11 percent decline in quarterly sales and expectations of a dip of about one percent for the coming three months.

LG Introduces New IPS Monitors, First Ultra Definition Smart TV

LG is rolling-out of its premium series monitors globally. The Korean company also unveiled its first 84" UD (3,840x x2,160) 3D Smart TV.