From CRN: Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services has added an Nvidia (NSDQ:NVDA) Grid GPU instance to its cloud infrastructure-as-a-service portfolio, making GPU acceleration available to cloud developers building graphics-hungry 3-D apps and games.

Amazon's new G2 instance, launched Tuesday, features 1...

From EETimes: With a suite of proprietary switches and software announced today, Cisco Systems hopes to get a leg up in what could be the most disruptive trend the networking giant has faced in years.

The push to software-defined networks aims to simplify the jobs of setting up and running large...

From DailyTech: Intel has announced that it has set up a new business division with the goal of being at the forefront of the next generation of internet-connected devices. Intel’s latest push is to get just about everything you can think of connected to the internet from air-conditioning systems to...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has quietly began to ship engineering samples of its code-named Kaveri accelerated processing units to partners. As a result, first images of the chip as well as its launch date have been published. It is a matter of time before more or less reliable benchmark...

From eWeek: Google wants game developers to capture the growing market of mobile games by harnessing the power of Google Cloud Platform to expand their games to more users.

The idea, according to a Nov. 3 post on the Google Cloud Platform Blog by Grzegorz Gogolowicz, a Google cloud engineer, is...

From EETimes: Intel will describe its Haswell-class processor for mainstream servers for the first time at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in February. Also at ISSCC, Applied Micro will reveal details of the first 64-bit ARM server SoC, targeting low power so-called microservers...

From DailyTech: Under a newly minted deal between the world's top smartphone maker -- South Korea's Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) and Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V)), Samsung agrees to pay Nokia royalties on its Android smartphones, beginning in January 2014.

The deal is another crucial coup...

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced plans to extend its mission-critical HP NonStop operating system to x86 server architecture, providing the 24/7 availability required in an always-on, globally connected world, and increasing customer choice.

“Demands for round-the-clock, web...

From CRN: BlackBerry Monday said it has abandoned its attempt to go private and instead will take $1 billion in convertible debt financing from Fairfax Financial and other investors. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins also will step down and be replaced by former Sybase CEO John Chen on an interim basis...

From EETimes: The new Android 4.4 KitKat operating system announced by Google yesterday aims to save battery life by mandating that real-time location tracking and contextual awareness functions run in the background while the application processor is off. Usually, that means using a sensor hub to...