IBM and Lenovo Fail to Reach Agreement Over Server Business

From X-bit Labs: Negotiations between IBM and Lenovo group over a deal under which the latter would acquire mainstream server business unit from the former have ended with no results, according to a media report. The parties have not reached agreements over price and will unlikely...

HTC Q1 profit plunges 98 percent, despite HTC One launch

From CNET News.com: The HTC One launched too late to save the Taiwanese company's first-quarter results.

Net profit for the handset maker tumbled to NT$85 million ($2.85 million) from NT$4.5 billion ($152 million) a year ago, a drop of 98 percent.

It's the company's lowest...

Intel Appoints Brian Krzanich as New CEO

From DailyTech: We have known for quite some time that Intel CEO Paul Otellini was set to retire this year. Today, however, Intel voted unanimously to replace outgoing CEO Otellini with new CEO Brian Krzanich.

Kzanich will assume the CEO position at Intel's annual stockholders...

Toshiba Launches WT310 11.6-Inch Tablet Running Windows 8 Pro

From DailyTech: Toshiba has gone official with its latest Windows 8 Pro tablet. This Toshiba WT310 has more in common with an average ultrabook than some of the other tablets on the market and features an 11.6-inch full HD resolution display.

Toshiba is staying mum on some of the...

Seagate’s Revenues, Profits and Shipments Drop on Slow PC Sales

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology on Wednesday reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2013, which ended March 29, 2013. While Seagate’s arch-rival Western Digital Corp. appeared to be immune to PC shipments drop in calendar Q1 2013, Seagate suffered decreases in...

Smart Storage Systems Unleash 2TB SAS SSDs

From X-bit Labs: Smart Storage Systems, an innovative enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) technology provider, this week announced the new Optimus Eco, the first SAS-6Gb/s SSD on the market to leverage 19nm multi-level cell (MLC) flash. The SSD combines performance, capacity...

Windows 8 inches up in desktop OS market

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's latest flavor of Windows took home 3.84 percent of all traffic captured by Web tracker Net Applications in April. That proved a small gain from the 3.2 percent earned in March.

Starting with a 1.09 percent share in November, Windows 8 sliced out a a 1...

BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Will Die Within 5 Years

From DailyTech: When it comes to forward-looking progress in the mobile sector, most people aren't looking to companies like BlackBerry for direction. Instead, most people look towards Google, Apple, Amazon, and to a lesser extent these days, Microsoft.

However, BlackBerry, which...

Gadgets Intel CEO Plugs Softbank, Snubs DISH Bid For Sprint

From DailyTech: Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) finds itself in an unusual position. The struggling third place carrier suddenly finds itself with not just one, but two large, highly attractive suitors vying for partial ownership in it. Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984) struck first with a $20B...

Acer Readies AMD Fusion Temash -Based Laptop

From X-bit Labs: Acer Group, one of the top PC makers, is working on a netbook computer with a microprocessor originally developed for media tablets and convertibles. The laptop with ten-point multi-touch display promises to be one of the most energy-efficient clamshell designs with...

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