From InfoWorld: Oracle has joined the industry consortium HSA Foundation, which is developing standards to make it easier for programmers to take advantage of GPUs and other processor types for faster code execution.

The Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation is developing a set of open...

From DailyTech: For the masses waiting on their oft laggard Android carrier and OEM to update their device to the latest and greatest version of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) operating system (which is currently Android 4.4 "KitKat") CyanogenMod (aka "CM") has offered an escape route.

While the reach of...

From X-bit Labs: Sapphire Technology, the world’s largest manufacturer of AMD Radeon-branded graphics cards, has announced plans to bundle vouchers for Battlefield 4 with several new products in its recently launched AMD Radeon R9-series of graphics accelerators. Sapphire is the first company to...

From eWeek: Ahead of the official Xbox One launch on Friday, Nov. 22, Microsoft is previewing some of the video game console's advanced Skype video calling features.

Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 in a blockbuster deal worth $8.5 billion. In the time since, the company has been integrating the...

From EETimes: Kaveri client and Berlin server processors will be the first chips from Advanced Micro Devices to use technology from the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Foundation, AMD said at its developer conference here. AMD launched the HSA Foundation with partners to define common ways for...

From PC World: Google has made its app translation service available to all Android developers to enable them to offer their apps in different languages.

The service, first previewed in May at Google I/O, allows developers to purchase professional app translations through the Google Play Developer...

From DailyTech: Q3 2013 was a difficult time for companies in the tech space. Back in 2010 and 2011 PC makers grappled with growing fears of erosion from mobile devices, but for those in the mobile sector it was a golden era. If you had ambitious mobile product on the market, you were virtually...

From eWeek: Microsoft is making it easier for far-flung colleagues to work together on Office documents by switching on new live, multiuser editing features on the cloud-delivered versions of its productivity apps.

The feature was first previewed in May by Amanda Lefebvre, a Microsoft product...

From PC World: Nvidia's Tegra 4i processor, the first of its chips with integrated support for LTE cellular data, is on course to appear in products early next year, the company's CEO said Thursday.

The Tegra 4i is smaller than the current Tegra 4 and aimed at mainstream, midmarket phones. Despite...

From DailyTech: Panasonic has announced the U.S. availability for its latest tablet hailed as the world's first 20-inch tablet with 4K resolution: the Toughpad 4K UT-MB5. It's part of the Panasonic line of professional-grade tablets designed for use in the field.

The Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 is powered...