Former Palm CEO: Selling Palm to HP was a Waste

From DailyTech: Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein said that selling Palm to Hewlett-Packard (HP) was a "waste," considering Palm's technologies are now seen in today's most popular devices.

Rubinstein told FierceWireless in an interview that Palm's innovative technologies were lost in...

Nokia to Stop Stop Shipping Symbian-Based Smartphones This Summer

From X-bit Labs: The Symbian operating system powered the very first mass smartphones from Nokia Corp. more than a decade ago and made the company the dominant player on the market until Apple iOS and Google Android started to take off in 2010. It looks like it is time to say goodbye...

AMD Athlon X4 760K with Richland Core Available for Sale

From X-bit Labs: Although Advanced Micro Devices these days is shifting focus from pure central processing units (CPUs) to accelerated processing units (APUs) with integrated graphics cores that can speed up select applications, the company continues to sell CPUs not only to...

Bing's US search market share continues to climb

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's Bing carved out a 17.4 percent slice of the U.S. search engine market in May, according to the latest ComScore data provided by investment firm Macquarie Capital.

An investors note released today by Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter revealed that Bing's...

EA Says Online Pass Used Game DRM Was a Mistake, Mum on Xbox One

From DailyTech: In an interview with Polygon, Electronic Arts, Inc.'s (EA) chief operating officer Peter Moore the executive opened up somewhat about his company's controversial DRM efforts, while dodging other questions on the issue.

From 2010 to 2013 EA had embraced a...

AMD Releases World's First 5.0 GHz FX Processor

From DailyTech: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is dropping the Gigahertz hammer on rival Intel Corp. (INTC) announcing a new Vishera (the Piledriver-core based line of "FX"-branded processors) octa-core chip that has a turbo clock of 5.0 GHz.

While some may consider the fact...

Amazon: Demand for Microsoft Xbox One Is Unprecedented

From X-bit Labs: Despite of heavy competition from mobile platforms, relatively high price and numerous restrictions when it comes to used games, Microsoft Xbox One is facing tremendous demand from the end-users in the U.S., according to Amazon. It is most likely that the consoles...

Intel Aims New Solid-State Drives at Cloud Computing Datacenters

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday announced its new solid-state drive DC S3500 series, the latest solid-state drive (SSD) for data centers and cloud computing. The new SSDs are designed for read-intensive applications such as web hosting, cloud computing and data center...

Softbank ups Sprint offer to $21.6B

From CNET News.com: As the battle between SoftBank and Dish in the takeover of Sprint increasingly heats up, SoftBank has announced that it will raise its offer to from $20.1 billion to $21.6 billion.

SoftBank said Monday that the amended merger agreement will give shareholders a...

Acer Plans to Sell a Windows Phone 8.1 Device in 2014

From DailyTech: It's already been learned that Lenovo Group, Ltd. (HKG:0992) eyes a major smartphone push into the U.S. in 2014. Now we're learning via interviews, leaks, and rumors that two other top Asian personal computer OEMs -- ASUSTek Computer, Inc. (TPE:2357) and Acer Inc....

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