Amazon is developing a number of new hardware products to complement its Kindle line, The Wall Street Journal is reporting . Amazon hopes to release the devices, which are being developed at an Amazon lab in Sunnyvale, California , in the coming months, but the WSJ is quick to note that some or all of them may be killed at the last minute for a variety of reasons. One of the devices is a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for 3-D images without glasses, these people said.

AMD has hired away another executive from Apple, CNET is reporting . Raja Koduri, Apple's former director of graphics architecture, has been rehired by AMD as Corporate Vice President of Visual Computing after four years with Apple. Koduri joined Apple from AMD in April 2009 as part of the electronics giant's push to build up its own chip operations

In a Branch chat , which at the time of this writing is still going on, Daring Fireball's Jon Gruber says that, according to what he's heard, iOS 7 is running behind schedule and that it will bring a significant user interface (UI) refresh. What I've heard: iOS 7 is running behind, and engineers have been pulled from OS X 10.9 to work on it. (Let me know if you've heard this song before.) Gruber went on to say that he's heard that iOS 7 is a "significant system-wide UI overhaul" and that iOS engineers that are allowed to carry around devices with iOS 7 on them have a special privacy filter on their devices that reduces viewing angles

Facebook is hosting an event on Thursday said to be centered around the debut of its long rumored Facebook phone. A photo of the device that might be the star of the show was today leaked by @evleaks , a frequent provider of accurate pre-release Android info. The HTC First is rumored to feature Facebook Home, a custom launcher and home screen that focuses on deep Facebook integration

The iPhone 5 that will be sold through T-Mobile is a modified version of the A1428 iPhone 5 that is currently produced for AT&T's network, among others. The new version of the A1428 has been tweaked on the hardware side by Apple to support Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) bands for T-Mobile's network . According to an Apple representative that spoke to Engadget , existing A1428 phones cannot be updated to add AWS support.

Apple has informed app developers that it will no longer allow apps to use the unique device identifier or UDID after May 1, according to a post on Apple's developer website . Instead, Apple requests developers use the new 'Vendor or Advertising identifiers' that were introduced in iOS 6. Developers will also be required to support both the Retina display and the iPhone 5's 4-inch display, beginning on May 1

Apple has quietly added a new notes feature to its curated apps in the iOS App Store. Apps chosen for Editor's Choice and App of the Week now come with App Store Notes, which offer a quick description of the app

Google, via its newly acquired Motorola Mobility unit, is developing a "stand apart" phone to compete with the iPhone, reports the Wall Street Journal .

Google, via its newly acquired Motorola Mobility unit, is developing a "stand apart" phone to compete with the iPhone, reports the Wall Street Journal .

Don’t despair over kids who sit in their basements and play video games for hours on end — they could one day save your life. The Huffington Post reports that “scientists at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston pitted high school sophomore gamers, college gamers, and medical residents against each other to see