From PC World: Scuttlebutt says Microsoft may have another pleasant surprise in store for desktop PC users with the upcoming Windows 8.1 Update 1 expected in March or April. Microsoft is currently testing having the Windows 8.1 refresh boot to the desktop by default for keyboard-and-mouse PC users...

From DailyTech: At its fifth annual Open Compute Summit in San Jose, Calif., the world's second-largest PC and server processor-maker, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), has announced the start of a crucial transition. It announced the sampling of the Opteron A1100 Series processor and an...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. plans to release a patch for Xbox One game console, which will boost performance of the system’s graphics processing unit by 8% - 10%. The update will remove compulsory reservation of GPU horsepower for processing of Kinect’s video data.

Graphics sub-systems of...

From EETimes: Google has agreed to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, less than two-and-a-half years after it bought the smartphone and tablet maker for $12.5 billion.

The Motorola/Lenovo combination becomes the world's third largest smartphone maker with a 6% market share behind...

From PC World: Intel is closing down its AppUp online application store as it sees a shift in the market and consumer needs.

Designed originally for netbook computers, the Intel AppUp center was first unveiled in a beta program in 2010, with plans to expand its scope to smartphones, TVs and other...

From DailyTech: Lenovo unveiled four new ThinkServer products today alongside a new laptop series made specifically for the classroom.

Lenovo announced the ThinkServer RD340, ThinkServer RD440, ThinkServer TD340 and the ThinkServer SA120. It also introduced the ThinkPad 11e series of laptops....

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. has announced that life-to-date sales of Microsoft Xbox One video game console had reached 3.9 million units. While the shipments of the system are still behind Sony PlayStation 4, it is evident that they are growing even in in January.

Very early this month...

From EETimes: Servergy Inc. and Rex Computing debuted low power server architectures using Power and Adapteva processors, respectively, at the Facebook-led Open Compute Summit here. The two startups are the latest vendors leveraging the push for low power in big datacenters to disrupt Intel's...

From PC World: Yahoo reported a 6 percent drop in revenue for the fourth quarter, as sales of its display and search ads dropped compared to last year.

Revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2013, was $1.266 billion, down 6 percent compared to the same period the previous year, Yahoo said Tuesday...

From DailyTech: Lenovo is making some big changes where its executives are concerned as it reorganizes into four business groups.

According to Lenovo, the four business groups are the PC Business Group, the Mobile Business Group, Enterprise, and Ecosystem and Cloud Services. This is a big change...