From DailyTech: We have been following Microsoft Surface for a long time now. Many geeks were excited when Surface 2.0 turned up and then went up for pre-sale. The price is certainly enough to make normal geeks cringe, but for corporations or places like hotels and convention centers...

From DailyTech: Today’s increasingly thin ultraportable laptops (e.g. Intel Corp.'s (INTC) beloved "Ultrabooks") tend to lack a discrete GPU powerful enough to do anything outside of low-to-mid range gaming and a bit of photoshopping. Want to do even basic 3D modeling? Want to play...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. is projected to release its highly-anticipated eight-core Intel Xeon microprocessors for dual-socket servers in March, 2012. The new chips will be based on Sandy Bridge-EP design with all cores activated and will be very competitive on both server as well...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has released a document that is supposed to assist software developers to optimize their programs for AMD’s microprocessors based on Bulldozer micro-architecture and forthcoming chips. Among other things, AMD describes peculiarities of...

From PC World: Microsoft is aiming for October to release the commercial version of Windows 8, based on comments attributed to a Microsoft spokeswoman at CES.

During a demo of the new operating system, public relations director of the Windows Business Group Janelle Poole said,...

From CNET News.com: News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is talking nonsense, according to Google.

Murdoch, a Twitter user for only the past several weeks, used the service to fire a barrage of accusations Saturday night against President Obama and Google.

He accused the White House...

From DailyTech: Intel Corp. (INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) don't exactly see eye to eye on most things, but at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, they seemed to both be in agreement that ultrathin notebook computers were what ready for primetime in 2012.

AMD, however...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. said that during the year 2011 it had managed to outsell its "closest rival" by 2.7 million units with its Xbox 360 game console in the U.S. in 2011, according to NPD market tracker. Citing the numbers from NPD, Microsoft said it also won the holiday...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. and LG Electronics have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for LG’s tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome OS platforms. LG will pay Microsoft for its...