AMD low-power chips headed for HP, Dell servers

From CNET News.com: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday released low-power and high-performance processors that will find their way into servers from Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems, and Rackable Systems.

The new server processors are updated versions of AMD's 45-nanometer...

Microsoft aiming to recover lost ground in mobile

From CNET News.com: Microsoft has made some stumbles in the mobile world, but a strategy shift made more than a year ago will soon pay dividends, the company's top Windows Mobile executive said in an interview with CNET News.

Andy Lees, the executive brought over from the server...

Japanese Game Development Continues Decline

From DailyTech: Japanese market share of the Western game market has been reduced to 20 percent according to an analysis of the Japanese gaming industry by the CESA. The decline is significant as Japanese game development used to maintain a dominant position in the industry...

AMD Reports Massive Loss for 2008

From DailyTech: AMD has posted its Q4 2008 and fiscal 2008 earnings reports, and things don’t look good. For Q4 2008 AMD reports revenue from continued operations was $1.162 billion. While that sounds like a lot of revenue, the number is down 35 percent from Q3 2008 and down 33...

Microsoft to merge Windows Live and Office Live

From InfoWorld: Microsoft seems closer to rebranding its search engine and Live online services under the Kumo name, something that's been rumored to be in the works since last year.

The company confirmed Friday that it will merge its Office Live and Windows Live services into one...

Microsoft to deliver first IE8 release candidate Monday

From InfoWorld: Microsoft plans to deliver the first release candidate of the next version of Internet Explorer on Monday, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

IE8 (Internet Explorer 8) has been in its second beta release since August, and a post on Microsoft's...

Sun confirms 1,300 layoffs

From CNET News.com: Sun Microsystems has laid off 1,300 workers, part of a planned sequence of job reductions first revealed in November when the company announced that it was intending to shed 6,000 people, or 14 percent to 18 percent of its workforce.

The job losses are worldwide...

Google's wildcard watch

From CNET News.com: Steve Ballmer, who just announced to the troops that Microsoft was firing 5,000 employees due to the recession, might be excused for wanting to slam his head against the wall at this point.

After reporting quarterly earnings, Google finished Friday up more than...

What the EU might force Microsoft to do

From CNET News.com: The European Union is considering forcing Microsoft to distribute rival browsers as part of Windows, the software maker disclosed in a regulatory filing this week.

As part of its quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission filed on Thursday, the...

DRAM Giant Qimonda Declares Insolvency

From DailyTech: Qimonda, at one time the second largest DRAM manufacturer in the world, has filed for insolvency under German law, the equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. Such action provides creditor protection while it reorganizes its operations and...

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