Facebook Attracts Server Startups

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...

Yahoo reports another sales decline as ads sag

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...

Lenovo Reorganizes Into Four Business Groups, Shifts Executives

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...

Samsung Leak Shows of Slick Android-Meets-Windows Phone UI

From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005935) (KRX:005930) seemingly laid to rest the possibility of launching a Tizen device, saying it had "no current plans" to market such a device. Hopes for a Tizen offering seemingly further weakened when Samsung signed a ten-year licensing...

Is Google-Samsung Licensing a Big Event?

From EETimes: Samsung Electronics pulled off two big patent-licensing agreements over the last 48 hours: one with Google on a broad agreement to cross-license each other's patents; another with Ericsson, putting an end to the ongoing battle with the Swedish telecom giant. Samsung, which had been...

Rumored Nokia X Low-end Android Smartphone Specs Leak

From DailyTech: We have been hearing rumors for a while that Nokia was working on an Android powered smartphone. Not too long ago, screenshots of what was supposed to be the interface for the Android-powered Nokia device leaked.

Today another leak claims to show the specifications of the rumored...

Nvidia Readies Dual-Chip Flagship Graphics Card with Two GK110 GPUs

From X-bit Labs: Perhaps, Nvidia Corp.’s next-generation Maxwell architecture can wait? According to a new media report, Nvidia is working on two new graphics solutions based on the existing GK110 architecture known as Kepler.

Both GeForce GTX graphics cards will be aimed at the ultra-high-end...

Microsoft keeps chipping away at Windows XP's end-of-life deadline

From InfoWorld: As Windows XP's end-of-life date draws closer, Microsoft has begun backpedaling, opening the door to speculation about a possible stay of execution. Mind, the official Microsoft party line hasn't changed one whit: Windows XP and Office 2013 will "transition" to end of life on April 8...

Microsoft renames SkyDrive to OneDrive

From PC World: Say goodbye to SkyDrive and hello to OneDrive. After losing its trademark dispute with BSkyB last July, Microsoft is finally set to reboot its online storage service under a new name in the coming weeks.

The company hasn’t given an official launch date yet, saying only that OneDrive...

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