AMD Looking to Sell Texas Site

From DailyTech: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is selling its Texas campus as a result of the sluggish PC market.

Chip maker AMD said it will sell and lease back its 58-acre Austin, Texas campus for $150 million to $200 million. It hopes to close the deal in Q2 2013.

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Windows 8 Beats Windows 7, Sets New Sales Record

From DailyTech: Windows 8 was an incredibly bold redesign on the part on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). The move to a more touch-friendly, graphically rich operating system certainly seemed to mirror the general direction of the device market, but that did not shield Microsoft from loads...

Microsoft: Sales of Windows Phone Quadruple with Windows Phone 8

From X-bit Labs: Sales of smartphones based on Windows Phone operating system have quadrupled compared to the same time last year thanks to the launch of Windows Phone 8 platform. Moreover, in many countries WP8-based handsets from Nokia and HTC are sold out. With strong sales of...

HTC turns to new marketing chief

From CNET News.com: Ailing smartphone maker HTC has hired a new marketing chief to help turn the company around amid a continuing financial downturn.

Benjamin Ho, the former vice president of business strategy and marketing at Taiwanese network FarEasTone and former chief marketing...

Nokia Grabs RIM by the Blackberrys with Patent Win

From DailyTech: The past few years haven’t been very kind to RIM. The smartphone maker has seen hordes of customers in the consumer and enterprise space defect from its platform to devices that run iOS and Android. RIM has so far seemed unable to mount any competition in the...

OCZ Launches Vector SSD Series

From DailyTech: OCZ Technology Group has announced its Vector SSD series, which is the first series built completely in-house for full design control.

The new Vector SSD series features the next-generation Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller, which, the company claims offers faster file...

Apple and AMD May Offer Radeon HD 7000-Series for Mac

From X-bit Labs: It looks like users of Apple computers may finally get a choice of graphics processing units (GPUs) as the latest developer preview of Apple Mac OS X system includes driver support for both latest AMD Radeon HD 7000-series GCN chips as well as Nvidia Corp. GeForce...

Apple's new iMac to arrive November 30

From CNET News.com: The latest versions of Apple's iMac go on sale this Friday, November 30.

Apple said this morning that the 21.5-inch iMac will be available at that time through the Apple Online Store, Apple's retail stores and some Apple resellers. The 27-inch iMac, meanwhile...

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