Intel plans new Braswell chip for PCs, over 20 Chromebooks

From PC World: Intel is preparing a new “Braswell” chip to succeed its power-efficient Bay Trail processor found in PCs besides working on bringing over 20 Chromebook designs to the market this year.

“Last year, we had only four designs on Chrome. Today I can announce that we will have over 20...

Nokia's $55 MD-12 Wireless Speaker Uses Hard Surfaces to Boost Bass

From DailyTech: In addition to a few new Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones, Nokia has unveiled a new portable speaker called the MD-12 that's small, yet promises big sound. Nokia says that the speaker is about the size of an apple and has a built-in vibrating actuator that can produce bass when placed...

Budget Minded Lumia 630 ($159/$169) and 635 ($189, w/LTE) Announced

From DailyTech: As anticipated, the Lumia 630/635 were announced at Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) BUILD conference by Nokia Oyj.'s (HEX:NOK1V) Nokia Devices.

Nokia's strongest traction has been on the budget end. That success hasn't exactly been an accident. While lower-end hardware at lower cost is...

SanDisk Optimizes SSDs for Enterprise Workloads

From EETimes: SanDisk has expanded its CloudSpeed Serial ATA (SATA) product family with four new solid state drives (SSDs) to meet demands of enterprise workloads. The new SSDs leverage software to address endurance challenges, particularly those created by write-intensive application workloads...

Intel to bring exclusive content to devices powered by its mobile chips

From PC World: After falling behind ARM in the mobile processor market, Intel plans to go on the offensive by creating exclusive content for devices built around its chips.

More details about the exclusives will be shared on Thursday during the Intel Developer Forum in Shenzhen, China. But Intel’s...

BlackBerry will not renew tie-up with T-Mobile

From PC World: BlackBerry will not renew the license of T-Mobile US to sell its products when it expires later this month, the smartphone maker said.

The announcement by the Canadian company comes after a dispute in February with the fourth-largest carrier in the U.S. for promoting Apple’s iPhone...

HP pays $57 million to finally put WebOS behind it

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard has come to an agreement to pay for the sins of Leo Apotheker.

HP on Monday settled a class-action lawsuit that will see the company deposit $57 million into an interest-bearing escrow account within the next three weeks. Upon deposit, US District Court judge Andrew...

Microsoft slashes Azure prices, introduces new basic tier

From PC World: Microsoft said Monday it was cutting prices of its Azure cloud services to match the prices of competitor Amazon Web Services in the latest in a price war in cloud services.

Besides introducing a new tier of general-purpose services, Microsoft also announced a move to region-specific...

Intel plays defense against ARM with Cloudera stake

From PC World: Intel’s $740 million investment in software company Cloudera will help sell more x86 chips in Hadoop installations, but it could also be a defensive move to maintain its server lead from the emerging threat posed by 64-bit ARM servers.

Cloudera makes applications based on Apache...

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