Palm Suffers Another Setback as Executive, Retail Partner Quit

From DailyTech: The financial and structural problems for Palm continue to pile up with no apparent viable outcome other than selling the company.

Palm started the week already under constant pressure, but it got worse when it was disclosed Michael Abbott, Palm Vice President of...

Sony Outsourcing Vaio Laptop Design to Others

From Tom's Hardware: As far as Windows-based laptops go, Sony makes some of the most stylish and expensive ones. Now Sony is planning on launching a secondary laptop division that will bear the Vaio name, but won't be designed in-house.

Deputy president of Sony Vaio’s Business Group...

Apple Mods Intel Chipset for Auto GPU Switching

From Tom's Hardware: When Apple announced that its new 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros had both the Intel HD IGP as well as a discrete Nvidia GT 330M GPU and it could switch seamlessly between them automatically, we assumed that it was using the Nvidia Optimus technology – but it isn't...

HP unveils 'Cisco-free' data center based on 3Com technology

From InfoWorld: HP has unveiled a new "edge-to-core networking portfolio" based on technology built by 3Com, just one week after closing the $2.7 billion acquisition of the network vendor.

HP also announced Monday that its newest "Cisco-free" data center takes advantage of HP/3Com...

Lenovo Reveals Tweaked Android, App Store for Lephone

From PC World: Lenovo showed off a tweaked version of Google's Android operating system on its upcoming Lephone handset, as the company also launched an application download store for the phone and other products.

Lenovo also announced a service that will automatically push e-mail...

Cisco finally closes $3.3 billion Tandberg bid

From CNET News.com: Cisco Systems has finally managed to acquire video-conferencing vendor Tandberg.

The networking giant announced Monday that it has completed a so-called voluntary offer for Tandberg, with 91.1 percent control of the Oslo, Norway-based company. Cisco said it will...

Report: Apple Considering AMD Chips

From DailyTech: When Apple made the switch to Intel processors back in 2006, many in the Apple community were worried about what the future would be like for the the Mac platform. Apple owners didn't need to worry, however, as the move to Intel processors bought faster performance...

Microsoft Office 2010 Hits RTM

From DailyTech: Two pieces of software have worked together to make Microsoft what it is today -- Windows and Office. These are the bread and butter of the Microsoft empire and the two different programs make up the lion's share of revenue for Microsoft in software.

Microsoft has...

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