Salesforce And HP Team Up For Dedicated Cloud

From CRN: Salesforce.com and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) are taking their budding friendship to the next level by unveiling a new cloud offering for enterprises that includes technology from both vendors.

Salesforce SuperPod, a new offering unveiled Monday at the opening of Salesforce's Dreamforce...

Intel rushes to exascale with redesigned supercomputing chip

From InfoWorld: In the rush to exascale computing, Intel is making a small change that could have a big impact on system design with its upcoming Xeon Phi chip.

Intel on Tuesday promised big performance and power improvements with the redesigned chip, code-named Knights Landing, which analysts said...

Nokia Shareholders Overwhelming Greenlight $7.2B USD Microsoft Deal

From DailyTech: Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V) shareholders voted this week in an overwhelming 99.7 vote among the roughly 80 percent of shareholders who voted to approve of a two-component, $7.4B USD deal to sell or license certain assets to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).

The Financial Times -- a Pearson PLC...

Sony Launches PlayStation 4 in North America, Sets New Sales Record

From X-bit Labs: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) late last week launched its next generation game console, PlayStation 4 (PS4), in North America. Thanks to a lineup of competitive games, maximum interest from both game developers and end-users, the company managed to sell a record one...

Nvidia, Micron Debut High-End Processors

From EETimes: Nvidia and Micron announced new high-end co-processors at the opening of Supercomputing 2013 today. Meanwhile, an online analysis said the next generation of Intel's Xeon Phi, which competes with them both, will be an integrated device.

Supercomputers have become a key testing ground...

Mozilla ushers in new Firefox UI

From InfoWorld: Mozilla on Monday began rolling out its first major Firefox user interface (UI) change in more than three years, seeding early adopters of the "Nightly" build with the new "Australis" revamp.

Nightly builds are designed for preliminary testing, and as the name implies, are...

ASUS Falls Victim to PC Market Decline, Turns to Chromebooks, Phones

From DailyTech: Taiwanese electronics OEM ASUSTek Computer Inc. (TPE:2357) in Q2 and Q3 2012 was roughly tied for the world's fastest growing PC maker, according to the Interactive Data Corp. (IDC). Now its seen that streak of success collapse as poor sales of Windows 8 PCs catch up to it.

As a...

Micron Announces Development of New Parallel Processing Architecture

From X-bit Labs: Micron Technology, one of the world's leading makers of computer memory, on Monday announced the development of a fundamentally new computing architecture capable of performing high-speed, comprehensive search and analysis of complex, unstructured data streams. Micron's Automata...

Facebook finally updates privacy policy, but little has changed

From InfoWorld: Facebook changed its privacy policies on Friday, but unlike previous overhauls, there's not much to rage about this time.

No, companies aren't using your photos to sell products. Yes, if you like a brand, that information will show up in your friends' feeds, on your Timeline, and in...

Nvidia boosts supercomputing speed with new Tesla K40 graphics chip

From PC World: Nvidia wants to help create some of the world's fastest computers with its latest Tesla K40 graphics chip, which is its fastest supercomputing co-processor to date.

The Tesla K40 graphics processor delivers 1.43 teraflops of performance, which is roughly 20 percent faster than its...

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