BlackBerry will not renew tie-up with T-Mobile

From PC World: BlackBerry will not renew the license of T-Mobile US to sell its products when it expires later this month, the smartphone maker said.

The announcement by the Canadian company comes after a dispute in February with the fourth-largest carrier in the U.S. for promoting Apple’s iPhone...

HP pays $57 million to finally put WebOS behind it

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard has come to an agreement to pay for the sins of Leo Apotheker.

HP on Monday settled a class-action lawsuit that will see the company deposit $57 million into an interest-bearing escrow account within the next three weeks. Upon deposit, US District Court judge Andrew...

Microsoft slashes Azure prices, introduces new basic tier

From PC World: Microsoft said Monday it was cutting prices of its Azure cloud services to match the prices of competitor Amazon Web Services in the latest in a price war in cloud services.

Besides introducing a new tier of general-purpose services, Microsoft also announced a move to region-specific...

Intel plays defense against ARM with Cloudera stake

From PC World: Intel’s $740 million investment in software company Cloudera will help sell more x86 chips in Hadoop installations, but it could also be a defensive move to maintain its server lead from the emerging threat posed by 64-bit ARM servers.

Cloudera makes applications based on Apache...

Surprise! EA's digital-distribution service Origin ditches discs

From CNET News.com: Electronic Arts' Origin, a digital game-distribution platform aimed at taking on Valve's Steam service, has decided to nix physical discs.

Starting April 4, Origin users trying to buy physical game discs through the game-delivery platform will need to go digital, EA announced...

S3 Preps DAC Product With a Twist

From EETimes: S3 Group Ltd., of Dublin, Ireland, best known as a supplier of design services and intellectual property to the semiconductor, TV, and telehealth sectors, is preparing to sell complete ICs -- but not under its own name.

The development is what Darren Hobbs, director of product...

Oracle doubles the speed of MySQL query handling

From PC World: For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system.

Such a sizeable performance bump could help organizations save money in server purchases, because it would...

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