From PC World: IBM has pledged US$1 billion in financing to help small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) procure certain IBM systems and services, the company announced Thursday.

"SMBs face difficulties in access to financing. They may not have the wherewithal to go get financing or...

From CNET News.com: Speaking at a technology conference, Intel's chief financial officer outlined a not-too-distant future when Ultrabooks take on the hallmarks of the tablet. He also touched on Windows 8 competition.

"Form factors in the notebook market have been somewhat stagnant...

From DailyTech: Waterloo, Ontario-based Research in Motion, Ltd. circa 2006-2007 appeared unstoppable. The company was beloved by businesses worldwide and was growing fast in market share and sales. Even Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Barrack Obama was deeply attached to his...

From DailyTech: MSI has announced new gaming notebooks today which are called the GT780DXR and the GT683DXR.

Both of the new gaming notebooks have the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M GPU inside and can be fitted with a Blu-ray burner as an option. The GT780DXR notebook has a brushed...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices admitted late on Wednesday that at present it is only shipping sixteen-core AMD Opteron "Interlagos" 6200-series chip for high-end servers with two or four sockets as it is priority for the company. The AMD Opteron "Valencia" 4200-series server...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.'s next-generation Core i7 "Sandy Bridge-E" microprocessors for performance enthusiasts will deliver from 12% to 65% higher performance compared to current extreme chips, according to estimates by the manufacturer. Thanks to Sandy Bridge micro-architecture...

From InfoWorld: As she approached her third anniversary as Yahoo's CEO, Carol Bartz couldn't overcome a recent string of missteps that apparently eroded the board's confidence in her and eclipsed her achievements as leader of the embattled Internet pioneer.

Bartz took over from co...

From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices said Wednesday that activation keys for the game "Dirt 3" that shipped with some of its products were compromised, potentially causing a delay before the vouchers can be redeemed.

AMD said the keys were hosted on a third-party fulfillment agency...

From CNET News.com: Add Sprint to the list of big names choosing to speak now rather than hold their peace on AT&T and T-Mobile's dreams of corporate matrimony.

Saying it would violate the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Sprint today filed a lawsuit opposing the deal before the same...

From DailyTech: HP has been in the news a lot recently. The company is the largest shipper of PCs around, but it is unable to compete in the tablet and smartphone market.

HP was considering the sale of its computer business, but is now said to be leaning more to a spinoff than...