Lenovo beats estimates with surge in earnings

From CNET News.com: Lenovo ended its third quarter with solid gains in earnings and sales but cautioned that uncertainty in the global economy may impact the road ahead.

For the quarter ended December 31 (PDF), the Hong Kong-based PC maker took in a profit of $99.6 million, a...

Nvidia CEO: Future laptops will mirror MacBook Air

From CNET News.com: Nvidia's CEO added his two cents to an increasingly popular theory on laptop design: that is, the MacBook Air as a template for all future designs.

In case you're wondering where the laptop is headed--circa 2014--Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang offered what could be...

Redbox Looks to New Subscription-Based Internet Streaming Service

From DailyTech: Redbox will be stepping up to Netflix's level by offering a new digital option, which will be a subscription-based internet streaming service.

Up until now, Redbox has been a kiosk-only DVD and video game rental company. With more and more consumers choosing to...

Report: Verizon iPhone Unimpressive in First-Week Sales

From DailyTech: According to a confidential Boy Genius Report source, first-week Verizon iPhone sales failed to perform at the level many analysts had expected, and Verizon had hoped.

The source provided sales figures from five combined Apple stores (two of which are described as...

Nvidia Shows Tegra Kal El, Promises Five Times Performance

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. at Mobile World Convention (MWC) demonstrated for the first time the third-generation Tegra product called Kal El. The new incarnation of Tegra boasts five times higher performance compared to the predecessor, supports a number of new features and is...

Dell results boosted by enterprise sales

From InfoWorld: Dell on Tuesday reported a 177 percent year-over-year increase in net income for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, driven by growth in enterprise server and PC sales.

The company's profit was $927 million for the quarter ended Jan. 28, up from $334 million in the...

Toshiba Shows Off Android 3.0 Tablet

From PC World: Toshiba joined the likes of Samsung and Motorola and unveiled a 10.1-inch Android Honeycomb tablet at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Arriving sometime in the first half of 2011, Toshiba's unnamed tablet focuses on media capabilities, all pushed by an Nvidia...

Imagining a quad-core Motorola Xoom

From CNET News.com: As chipmakers trip over each other to announce tablet-centric chips packing four processing engines, it's not hard to see where a product like the Motorola Xoom is headed.

Where? The same performance space a mainstream laptop occupies now. A graphic Nvidia...

Top Microsoft ad exec departs for Facebook

From CNET News.com: After an eight-month stint at Microsoft, Carolyn Everson, who had served as the company's corporate vice president of global ad sales and strategy, has left the company for Facebook.

AllThingsD, which was the first to report the news this evening, said Everson...

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