From InfoWorld: CoreOS, a new lightweight Linux distribution customized for massive server deployments, has found a home on the Google Cloud Platform, giving organizations an easy way to test and use the software for their clusters and distributed computer programs.

CoreOS will be offered in the...

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard reported increased profits Thursday as its PC business turned in a strong quarter, but the company will slash thousands more jobs to reduce costs.

HP has already cut 34,000 jobs as part of a plan to boost profits announced two years ago. It will now cut an additional...

From CNET: Google has a new tablet in the works that incorporates advanced vision capabilities that can capture more precise three-dimensional images of objects, the Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday.

Sporting a 7-inch display, the tablet will come equipped with two rear-facing cameras...

From InfoWorld: Dell is making a line of PCs using plastics obtained by expanding its recycling program.

The company has expanded the hardware take-back program to more places worldwide, aiming to collect and reuse more extracted plastic and metals in PCs, monitors, hardware panels, and other...

From PC World: An older version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has an unpatched software flaw that could allow rogue code to run on a computer, the second such flaw found in a month.

Microsoft was told of the flaw in October, which was discovered by Belgian researcher Peter Van Eeckhoutte...

From CNET: Those of you who want to snag Microsoft's new Surface Pro 3 tablet can now purchase one through Best Buy.

The retailer's website shows the latest Surface as available for preorder. Microsoft also offers the Surface Pro 3 for preorder but did say on Wednesday that preorders would pop up...

From DailyTech: We knew that Hewlett-Packard was taking budget tablet offerings seriously when it launched the $170 HP 8 1401 — an 8” Android tablet — back in early March. However, the company is going even further by making available an even cheaper tablet for U.S. customers.

The HP 7 Plus, as...

From InfoWorld: Google plans to spend $20 billion to $30 billion of its of its accumulated international profits to fund potential acquisitions of non-U.S. companies and technology rights.

The company disclosed its plans to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last year, in a document...

From PC World: It turns out that support page name-checking the Surface Pro 3 wasn't a typo after all. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the all-new Surface Pro 3, but this version is more than a mere spec boost over the Surface Pro 2: It's a whole new entry in the Surface lineup, and one designed "to...

From CNET: Lenovo continues to buck the trend of higher PC sales in a slumping market as it also grows stronger in the smartphone arena.

For the fourth quarter ended in March, the world's No. 1 PC maker reported a 16 percent jump in laptop sales to $4.8 billion. That number accounted for 51 percent...