From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard and SanDisk have announced an agreement to jointly develop "Storage Class Memory" (SCM) that could replace DRAM and would be 1,000 times faster than NAND flash.

The two companies will market their SCM products for use in enterprise cloud infrastructures based on HP's...

From PC World: Continuing the expansion of its AliCloud cloud computing business, Alibaba Group is setting up a second data center in Silicon Valley.

The Chinese company said customers could apply from Monday for services from the data center, which will span over 10 cloud services including...

From CNET: Apple's two latest iPhones may be off to a strong start in terms of sales, but fewer people are buying the company's MacBooks and iMacs.

Analysts aren't in agreement over the rate of the slowdown, with IDC reporting a 3.4 percent decline in Mac units shipped and research firm Gartner...

From DailyTech: Continuum is arguably the most compelling Windows 10 feature in the smartphone space. The premise is elegant and simple. Connect a Windows 10 smartphone like a Lumia or compatible third party handset to a monitor and your phone behaves like a PC, outputting to the bigscreen the...

From InfoWorld: When Dell's XPS 13 hit it out of the park, it was only a matter of time before the company applied the same winning formula to another laptop. That time came early Thursday, when the company unwrapped the XPS 15.

No surprise, the XPS 15 looks like a bigger XPS 13, with the same...

From PC World: IBM is gunning for a slice of Intel's x86 server chip business with a new family of Power systems that run Linux and will be sold directly to customers over the Web.

The LC family of servers, which went on sale Thursday, is aimed at organizations deploying clustered or cloud...

From CNET: Customers who use the Samsung Pay mobile payments system weren't hurt by a hack attack on LoopPay, a company Samsung acquired to help power the service, the company said on Thursday.

LoopPay, which Samsung acquired in February to set up its payment system, was hit by a hacking incident...

From DailyTech: When it comes to wearables sometimes less is more. While Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has seen a fair deal of sales success with the Jack-of-all-trades Apple Watch, that success has been more of an exception than the rule. In general the more a smartwatch tries to do, the poorer sales have...

From PC World: HP’s cobalt-blue Streambook 11 didn’t turn heads because of its color—it turned them because of its price: $200 with Windows.

This year, the Streambook 11 gets a peppy little update, new colors, and its most welcome fix: a better screen.

HP says the new Streambook 11 will now come...

From InfoWorld: Analysts like to describe product advances in terms of “tick” and “tock.” Intel and Apple, in particular, seem to run out ahead with a passel of new features -- the “tick” -- and follow that up a year or so later with incremental improvements: the “tock.”

Microsoft's Surface Pro...