IBM teams with Xilinx to take on Intel with Power chips

From ComputerWorld: IBM has partnered with chip maker Xilinx to expand the use of IBM Power processors in servers, taking on Intel for a bigger slice of the data center market.

It's one of several announcements IBM is making Monday around its Open Power effort, which it launched last year to...

Pandora's latest buy sets it up to play the exact song you want

From CNET: You heard right. Pandora wants to play just the song you ask it to spin.

The online radio giant on Monday said it will buy most of smaller rival Rdio for $75 million in cash. As a result, Pandora plans to roll out new services next year that include on-demand listening.

The deal...

OnePlus One, OnePlus 2 Will Receive Android Marshmallow in Q1 2016

From DailyTech: Want Google Inc. (GOOG) Android 6.0 "Marshmallow" on your OnePlus device? Well, the Chinese OEM has now shared its update plans.

According to a recent announcement made on its forums, OnePlus plans to begin its roll out the major operating system upgrade to most of its users in Q1...

Windows 10 disk images let users skip wait for November upgrade

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft this week posted links to disk image files in .iso format for Windows 10's first upgrade, giving users a way to install the latest version of the OS without waiting for the company to push the code via Windows Update.

With a disk image, users can create installation...

Microsoft fixes Hyper-V bug in Windows

From InfoWorld: Microsoft fixed an issue in its Hyper-V hypervisor that, if exploited, could have resulted in a denial-of-service condition.

The issue exists on the hardware level in certain chip sets, but users who run Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Professional and...

Facebook to widen use of Safety Check tool after Paris attacks

From PC World: Facebook’s Safety Check tool to help users alert friends about their safety was activated for the first time after a terror attack in Paris on Friday, with a large number of users reporting they had benefited from it.

But that move drew widespread criticism online that the company...

Microsoft presses pause on tool for porting Android apps to Windows 10

From CNET: The future is uncertain for Microsoft's plan to introduce a tool for bringing apps originally written for Android to its own Windows 10.

The tool, nicknamed Project Astoria, was designed to encourage programmers who wrote apps for devices powered by Google's mobile software to bring...

ASUSTOR AS1002T Review (Page 1 of 8)

In my SanDisk Ultra Fit 128GB review introduction last week, I talked about my friend who said women are not that hard to understand, because a 'yes' means 'yes', and a 'no' means 'no'... sometimes. To give what she is saying some perspective, I decided to ask someone else about this issue. "I have to agree with her," she said. Therefore, I proposed a scenario. "Say you are mad at someone, because they did or said something you did not like. When...

Cooler Master Storm Quick Fire Rapid-i Review

Whenever companies develop new products, often times, they are either loaded with functionality, stripped down to the core, or -- thankfully, most of the time -- balances both parameters in moderation. For some products, it is visually quite obvious what kind of it has to offer, while others may be more subtle. Some computer cases that we have reviewed here at APH Networks show just that. A few months back, I reviewed the Phanteks Enthoo Primo...

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