Strategically teaming up as OS partners may not be enough for Microsoft when it comes to Nokia, according to Nokia watcher Eldar Murtazin, claiming the Finnish firm is in talks to sell off its entire handset division to the software giant.

It seems that the “scrappy little startup from Soho” has scored itself its third large carrier supporter, with Bug Labs announcing this morning it had formed a “strategic relationship” with Sprint as a laboratory equipment partner for the new Sprint M2M Collaboration Center, which opened this week in Burlingame, Calif.

In most tech contexts, the word ‘bug’ is not a good thing, but a small East Coast startup by the name of Bug Labs is changing the whole connotation of the word, having just teamed up with AT&T to help developers eliminate the notable barriers to innovating in hardware.

With a new flavor of Android seeming to emerge almost every Tuesday and Thursday and with a plethora of devices signing up to the bandwagon for Google’s own operating system – all with different specs, hardware and software – it’s no surprise that most people can’t keep up.

Last week Intel raised a lot of eyebrows in the tech world by shelling out a whopping $8 billion for antivirus firm McAfee. But why did Intel do it? Could there be a smart (phone) explanation?

The perceived clash between Intel and ARM is “misguided” according to a new report from independent investment bank Gleacher & Company.

In Singapore recently, RCR was privileged to be able to get a glimpse behind the chipmaking curtain at GlobalFoundries’ fab 7, where wafer upon wafer of chips are churned out daily from within the impressive maze of cleanrooms.