The CEO of Nokia, former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop is continuing with his grand restructuring plan, bringing the next wave of cuts to the manufacturing division in Finland, Hungary and Romania.

After everything settled with Rambus getting their key patents invalidated and losing 60% of market value in a single day, NVIDIA finally decided to sit down with Rambus and iron things out about the new, favorable agreement for the company.

With this year marking Cooler Master's 20th year in business, the company is feeling extra generous and has an anniversary gift to share out to the masses, providing you're based in Europe.

A little bit late to the game, Logitech has launched its first touch mouse, simply called the Touch Mouse M600. Logitech has gone for a design that ends up somewhere between Apple's Magic Mouse and Microsoft's Touch Mouse, although it seems to suffer from the same low profile as the Magic Mouse.

Olympus has unveiled their new interchangeable-lens digital camera - Olympus OM-D. Based on the Micro Four-thirds standard, the Olympus OM-D claims to be the world's first to feature dust and splash-proof capability, with built-in electronic viewfinder and 16-megapixel new Live MOS Sensor and TruePic VI image processing engine.

ASUS Singapore has unveiled the RT-N53 Black Diamond dual band wireless router which features a stylish "Black Diamond" design and boasts enhanced Wi-Fi network coverage for users.

AMD has quietly rolled out two more Athlon II X4 CPUs for Socket FM1. These FM1 Athlon II X4s are nothing but harvested Llano dies with the GPU part disabled. The new SKUs - Athlon II X4 638 and 641 - will close the gap between the current FM1 Athlons - Athlon II X4 631 and 651.

The latest piece of information we're hearing about Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy S III is in regards to its thickness. Supposedly the phone will be the second thinnest to date at just 7mm thick - only .3mm thicker than the world's thinnest smartphone recently announced from Huawei, the Ascend P1 S, and just slightly edging out Motorola's RAZR XT910 with its 7.1mm waistline.

High performance PC System builder MAINGEAR has just given its mighty TITAN 17 desktop replacement a number of aesthetic adjustments along with some updated componentry. For one, this 17.3-inch sized bad boy is now offered with Sandy Bridge-E goodness packed inside; your choice of a Core i7-3930K or i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor.

Just about every single camera maker offers a waterproof model these days, but Pentax was one of the first, if not the first company to offer an affordable waterproof consumer grade digital camera with the original Optio WP. Now the company has announced its 13th generation of waterproof cameras in the shape of the WG-2 which bumps several of the specs up from the WG-1.

If you never heard about a MicroOLED, think again. Based in the heart of French Silicon Valley, next to SOITEC and STMicroelectronics, MicroOLED is creating next-gen OLED display for professional devices.

Google is getting ready to give Android users – well, at least those on Android 4.0 devices – a desktop browser experience on their mobile devices with the introduction of Chrome for Android beta. Currently it's limited to 12 countries, but more should be following shortly.

Kingston appears to be only the first in what might be an industry wide move towards reducing pricing for NAND flash based products, as no SanDisk is reported to be following in Kingston's footsteps. SanDisk is said to be slashing the price of its retail flash memory cards and USB drives to keep up with the competition.

Google has launched a scientific breakthrough programme called Solve for X, where it brought together entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from across the world to propose technological solutions to some of the world's biggest problems, like cancer and climate change.

Hackers who stole blueprints for Symantec's security and anti-malware software tried to extort a $50,000 ransom from the company, but the security firm refused to pay up.

Thousands of home security camera have been breached by hackers, allowing people to bypass password security and spy on people in their houses, including children in their bedrooms.

Today, Sony Singapore launched their range of Balanced Armature in-ear headphones - XBA-1, XBA-2, XBA-3 and XBA-4 that also come in "iP" models which are compatible with iPhone and iPods; wireless and Bluetooth-capable XBA-BT75; XBA-NC85D with Digital Noise-Cancelling; and XBA-S65 for the sporty users.

Good news if you're looking to pick up an Ultrabook in the near future. Digitimes reports that notebook makers are expected to significantly drop pricing on their first generation ultrabooks ahead of Intel's Ivy Bridge launch early in the second quarter of the year.

The inaugural GIGABYTE Battlefield 3 Cup Asia Season 1 concluded last month, with asian gaming powerhouse [Bf.Nut] emerging as champions after battling through the single elimination knockout stage which included teams from all over the region and Australia. A prize presentation ceremony was held at IBIS Hotel Bencoolen over the weekend for some of the winners...

Several new models in Thermaltake's Toughpower and SMART series of power supplies are due to arrive this month. These include 80Plus Gold certified PSUs in the Toughpower 550 W, 650 W and 750 W as well as a couple 80Plus Bronze certified offerings under Tt's SMART lineup; a 750 W and 850 W.

AMD's FirePro family of graphics cards for the Professional/Workstation user has just seen a new addition today with the launch of the FirePro V3900 which replaces the V3800. AMD promises best-in-class workstation experiences at an entry level price point with this card - that being a US $119 MSRP at select online resellers.

There is no doubt about it - there is a new public version of Windows 8 coming in the matter of weeks, if not days. The company is adjusting its own services to accommodate for the consumer attack.

With AMD more or less pulling out of the high-end CPU market, it looks like the motherboard makers are following suit, at least if Gigabyte's latest AM3+ motherboard is anything to go by. The GA-970A-DS3 is part of Gigabyte's Ultra Durable 4 Classic series which is a more affordable range of boards which is target towards your average consumer rather than performance junkies.

Intel has finally launched its 520 series of SSDs – previously codenamed Cherryville – its first SSD with a SandForce controller and a model set to replace the Marvell powered 510 series. The question is if this will make Intel a "me too" SSD manufacturer or if the company has managed to bring anything to the table.

Microsoft might launch an Xbox TV in the future, which could be its contribution to the eight generation of gaming consoles or an entirely new product altogether, with gaming occuring on the cloud.

Apple has delayed a sales ban of its iPhone and iPad ranges in Germany, which could help it avoid a disastrous drop in sales in the largest European economy.

21 companies, including Facebook, Google and Yahoo, have been ordered by an Indian court to remove “offensive” material from their websites or face being blocked. So far Facebook and Google have announced their compliance with the ruling.

Intel is still about two months away from launching its Ivy Bridge CPUs, yet pictures of next year's Intel consumer CPU – codenamed Haswell – has appeared online. The CPU is strutting its stuff alongside Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge and Nehalem for an Intel family photo.

At the recently held Financial Analyst Day held in Sunnyvale, California, AMD disclosed that the company added a third foundry in its manufacturing portfolio - IBM.

Intellectual property holder Rambus has bought computer memory company Unity Semiconductor for $35 million, a move designed to strengthen its position as a major licensor of memory products.

Toshiba Singapore has announced their latest 14-inch Ultrabook, U840 which is not just stylish, but also offers good computing performance and weighs a portable 1.59kg.

Keen to get some hands-on time with Sony's PlayStation Vita hand-held before it hits shelves on the 22nd Feb? - A press release issued out from GameStop on the weekend lets us know that if you're based in the U.S. you'll be able to do just that to help finalize your purchasing decision. How? Just waltz on in to a GameStop retail store.

By the end of this quarter, or early next quarter Intel should be unveiling its next generation of Atom CE processors, currently codenamed Berryville. Although as amusing as the code name might be, Intel has gone through great lengths to make Berryville a real contender in the consumer electronics market space and maybe even giving some high-end ARM solutions a run for their money.

Facebook, with close to a billion users now, is a perfect data mining treasure for any intelligence service that would control it - but what about Google's combination of tracking and searching capabilities? Or Microsoft's rumoured backdoors in Windows for the US intelligence?

Mozilla's dev dept. is certainly quite the active one when it comes to dishing out continuously new builds of Firefox. Just days after the release of Firefox 10, you guessed it, they're already actively working towards Firefox 11 with the first beta already now available for download.

It was not two weeks ago since we studied the P280, a chassis designed to merge high performance with elegance. Today we are going to examine, test and review a case of comparable size and design, which however has been adjusted to cover the needs of an entirely different market group, hardcore gamers and overclocking enthusiasts. This product is no other than the new flagship in Antec’s Gaming series, the Eleven Hundred.

Also, stand a chance to win a brand new Antec Eleven Hundred! (more details at the end of the article)

Creative has just announced a couple new pairs of headphones, the HN-900 and Aurvana X-Fi 2, both with active noise cancelling that promises reduced ambient noise by up to 85%. Both sets feature 40mm Neodymium magnet drivers that Creative says will give precise, crystal clear sound with a frequency response range of 20Hz to 20 kHz.

A source close to Dell has disclosed the graphics options that will be available with Dell's yet to be launched M18x R2 under its Alienware branding. This laptop will sport an 18.4-inch display and feature one of Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs.

Sadly, we've just heard that Micron's CEO and chairman Steve Appleton has died at 51 years of age on Friday morning as the result of a small plane crash at Boise, Idaho. it's been reported that Appleton was flying alone in his Lancair fixed-wing single-engine stunt plane when something caused the plane to malfunction and plummet to the ground.

In line with prior reports of a March launch date for Apple's iPad 3, latest word from the rumor mill predicts its launch event within the first week of the month, and shipping to commence around mid month.