Verizon to buy Yahoo for $4.83 billion, merge it with AOL

From CNET: The two companies made the announcement Monday after the months-long courtship between the troubled internet giant and the largest wireless company in the US.

Verizon will pay $4.83 billion in cash for Yahoo's core internet business, which includes iconic web brands like Yahoo Mail...

AMD mulls a CPU+GPU super-chip in a server reboot

From InfoWorld: AMD emerged as a serious threat to Intel in servers more than a decade ago, but after a series of missteps and bad chips, the company's server business is hanging on by a thread.

Now, AMD is rebooting its server chip business with the upcoming Zen CPU, which will also be used in PCs...

Sprint finally starts to turn heads, but at a hefty cost

From CNET: The nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier has long struggled to get the attention of consumers, who for years were turned off by its poor reputation for coverage and reliability. Having shored up some of those network issues, Sprint has clamoring for more attention.

It hired Verizon's...

Cyanogen reportedly cuts jobs, may shift its focus toward apps

From PC World: Cyanogen appears to be undergoing a major shakeup, according to reports from Android Police and Recode.

Citing “multiple sources,” Android Police reported Friday that the company was “in the midst of laying off a significant portion of its workforce around the world.” According to...

Audioengine HD6 Review (Page 1 of 4)

If you have been reading APH Networks for a while, usually, we start off a review with a story, a joke, or a narrative of some sort. Yes, there are a number of unorthodox exceptions, notably in the introductions of the QNAP TS-419P II and Tt eSPORTS Meka G-Unit reviews, but those are far and few in between. Some people may wonder why we start reviews in this manner instead of cutting to the chase, which is a fair point -- but at least we make our...

Intel experiments with 3D Xpoint as it ships out SSDs to testers

From InfoWorld: Intel's groundbreaking 3D Xpoint technology is poised to shake up computer memory and storage with its blazing fast speed and high capacity, but the chipmaker is still trying to figure out the best fits for the technology.

3D Xpoint, developed by Intel and Micron, is a new class of...

Nvidia's new $1,200 Titan X graphics card is an absolute monster

From CNET: Just weeks after the global rollout of its GTX 1070 and 1080 graphics cards, US chipmaker Nvidia has unveiled another product in its already breakneck 2015-2016 release cycle.

Called the Titan X, it looks to be the most powerful graphics card that Nvidia has ever made. As the name...

Salesforce to acquire data center optimization startup Coolan

From PC World: Salesforce.com has signed a definite agreement to acquire Coolan, the developer of a platform for data center hardware analysis and optimization.

The acquisition appears to be designed to help Salesforce boost its own infrastructure for its customer relationship management software...

Pokemon Go home: Mega popular game finally arrives in Japan

From CNET: It took two years for the first Pokemon games to come to the West after launching in Japan. Now, in a strange turning of the tables, Japan has had to wait patiently for two weeks as the world lost its collective mind over Pokemon Go.

That changed on Friday, with the game's Twitter...

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