From DailyTech: Back in September, Google announced that it would be conducting a fall spring-cleaning over the coming months in order to eliminate the products that aren't providing the expected results and focus on those that are. It is now in the third phase of this cleaning...

From InfoWorld: Dell on Tuesday said it has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the just-released 16-core Opteron processors from AMD.

The company has upgraded the four-socket PowerEdge M915 blade server, which will be able to include up to 64 Opteron 6200 chip cores. The new...

From PC World: Samsung will update the Galaxy Nexus as soon as possible to fix an issue that is causing problems with sound volume, the company said on Wednesday.

"We are aware of the volume issue and have developed a fix. We will update devices as soon as possible," a spokesman...

From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) next generation operating system, Windows 8 has some big shoes to fill, as the successor to the fastest-selling operating system in Microsoft's history. It is currently in Developer Preview (publicly available) and is set to launch late next...

From DailyTech: With all the talk about notebooks, smartphones, and tablets these days, it's easy to forget that there is still a market for desktop computers these days. While notebooks have been crowding out desktops for a couple of years now in consumer market share, Lenovo is...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday confirmed plans to release a special version of Kinect motion sensor, which is currently available for Xbox 360 game console, for personal computers. Microsoft will also work with software developers to design software for Kinect on PCs...

From X-bit Labs: Due to slower economic environment as well as due to slowing sales of mission-critical systems powered by Intel Itanium microprocessors, sales of Hewlett-Packards ESSN [enterprise, servers, storage and networking] division dropped 4% year-over-year. HP claims to...

From InfoWorld: The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that Apple did not infringe technology patents owned by S3 Graphics and ended its investigation of the matter, the ITC announced Monday.

The decision is a setback for handset maker HTC, which recently acquired S3...

From PC World: Razer plans to release smaller gaming systems after the launch of its newest product, a 17.3-inch (43.9 centimeters) gaming laptop, which will start shipping next month in North American markets, the company's CEO said.

"More products will follow including small form...

From CNET News.com: It's time for Photoshop customers to think carefully about how to pay for the software, because Adobe Systems is curtailing upgrade deals to steer people toward a new $600-per-year subscription for a wide range of its products.

Subscription pricing, in which a...