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Toshiba Corp is likely to post a forecast-beating 130 billion yen ($1.6 billion ) net profit for the 2010/11 business year that ended on March 31, boosted by robust sales of flash memory chips for smartphones and tablet PCs, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Gleacher & Co. expects mobile chip maker Qualcomm to be a primary beneficiary in the 3G/4G growth and will remain the top supplier for integrated chips and extend its leadership position to LTE.

President Barack Obama continues pushing cyber security with the introduction of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).

Research In Motion launched the Playbook last night in New York, but questions about who the device is aimed at still linger.

The playbook launch party in New York was designed to show off Research In Motions' latest device, but questions still linger about who it is for.

Revealed at this year's MIX conference, the announcements are mostly focused on how developers will be able to take advantage of the operating system's new features.

The 3.2-inch, 3.2-megapixel camera-equipped smartphone is designed to take advantage of AT&T's prepaid plan.

The Flip Video's transition from the best-selling consumer-grade camcorder to obsolete technology corresponds with the rise of another massively popular consumer device – the smartphone.

Available this summer via T-Mobile, the Sensation 4G is HTC newest follow-up to hyper-powerful phones like the Thunderbolt and Inspire 4G

The scale of the challenge facing Nokia in the all-important smartphones market was underscored on Tuesday when a powerful new handset from Taiwan's HTC overshadowed two new models from the Finnish giant.

Flip Video, which Cisco purchased in 2009, is getting the axe as the company announces it is shifting focus back to its home networking business.

Taiwanese firm HTC Corp., introduced the HTC Sensation 4G and Nokia launched its E6 smartphone .

Intel Corp. has announced that its tablet specific Atom Z670 processor which brings in improved battery performance and enhanced video capabilities is now available.

Nokia unveiled on Tuesday two new smartphone models running on improved Symbian software, a stop-gap measure aimed at stemming customer defections to rivals like Apple.

Mobile giant Nokia has launched two new smartphones --- E6 and X7 - based on its updated Symbian operating platform.

AMD is hiring Android driver development engineers, a move that reflects the chipmaker's big push in to the tablet and smartphone space with the help of Android.

Nokia, the world's largest phone maker by volume, unveiled on Tuesday two new smartphone models running on a new version of its Symbian software platform.

Gartner estimates point to Apple's iOS grabbing nearly seventy percent of the market in 2011, a command that won't noticeably decrease until 2015, when it will drop to 47 percent.

YouTube has launched YouTube Live where one can view live videos from certain content partners of Google.

Adobe has launched subscription editions for its new Creative Suite 5.5, a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications including Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign.

The current mobile landscape may dramatically change within the next few years as current leader Research in Motion tumbles in market-share, and Android and Microsoft come to dominate.