Nothing throws water on the out of box experience (OOBE) of getting a new toy than having to sit and watch it update for hours to get to a working state.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published one of the first AuthenTec patent applications assigned to Apple, with the property describing an advanced method of fingerprint identification that can be embedded into a mobile device's display.

As India's smartphone market hovers on explosive growth comes the surprising news that Apple iPhone sales have tripped in the first quarter of 2013.

Japan's Sharp is aiming to raise 100 billion yen (US$1 billion) from share sales by the end of September as the struggling display maker looks to partnerships and a public offering to bolster its finances.

LG Display, the world's second-largest maker of flat-panels, posted second-quarter profit that missed analyst estimates on slower consumer demand for screens used in personal computers and televisions.

China on Thursday announced tariffs on imports of raw materials from the U.S. and South Korea used to make solar panels, in the latest volley in a global trade fight that has ensnared Beijing, Washington and the European Union.

BYD has recently rolled out the new HTC One for HTC, the Ascend P6 for Huawei, the Lumia 1020 for Nokia and the Galaxy S4 mini for Samsung, media reports said.

NEC will now focus on conventional handsets and plans to sell some of its mobile phone-related patents, according to the Japanese daily.

Not too many people are talking about the future of dedicated e-readers these days, which is why I decided to meet with the folks from E Ink

The new iPhone 5S is expected to have a quad-core PowerVR SGX544MP4 GPU, 4-inch (1136?640) IGZO display, 2GB of RAM, and the brand-new introduction of NFC and... a fingerprint scanner.

Let's face it: smartphone screens are getting a little boring.

Despite the prevailing opinion that the the PC is doomed, things could be a lot worse-at least in the United States.

LG Display claims it has developed the world's thinnest full HD LCD display for smartphones, measuring just 2.2 millimeters thick.

In the evening of Jul. 11, 2013, while her authentic, less than one-year-old iPhone 5 was being charged, she was struck suddenly by a powerful electrical current.

'Acqui-hiring' for wearable technology skills is under way as Cupertino company seeks followup to iPod, iPhone and iPad.

The only thing that counts against Globalfoundries is that, being a newcomer with a new US fab, it has yet to build up a long track record of consistent, successful execution. This is one reason Apple would not wish to have all its processor eggs in one foundry, as it does now with Samsung.

Samsung Electronics will supply 14nm A9 chips that will be used for Apple's iPhone 7.

There's now a rumor that the fruity iPhone maker will make its own chips, thus entering the fab industry thanks to a purchase of an unnamed chip fabricator. There's speculation that Taiwan-based chipmaker UMC was Apple's purchase of choice.

If Apple owned capacity at a fab, it would give the company the kind of control over both design and chip manufacturing that Intel has.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday the central bank will likely keep at least some of its easy-money policies going "for the foreseeable future."

Consumer demand for sophisticated mobile devices creates profitable growth opportunities for Applied's semiconductor and display equipment businesses.

Amazon, Sony and Nvidia are emerging as potential customers who will replace Apple as key buyers of Samsung Electronics' semiconductors, sources said Tuesday.

ARM chipmakers TSMC and Globalfoundries plan to release ARM processor chips capable of running at 3GHz sometime in 2014.