From InfoWorld: Acer's upcoming CEO has abruptly resigned from the troubled PC maker, in a surprise move that will result in founder Stan Shih temporarily taking over leadership.

Two weeks after Acer named Jim Wong to be its next CEO, the PC maker on Thursday announced he was stepping down "in...

From DailyTech: Google has announced the new Google Wallet Card that allows you to be paid instantly using Google Wallet, which is similar in concept to the PayPal Business Debit Card. As soon as someone pays you using Google Wallet, you can turn around and spend the money immediately using the...

From X-bit Labs: LSI Corp. on Monday unveiled the third generation of its SandForce flash controller line, the industry’s most widely deployed flash management technology for driving PCIe and SATA solid state drive (SSD) and flash card solutions. The new LSI SandForce SF3700 flash controller family...

From CRN: Salesforce.com and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) are taking their budding friendship to the next level by unveiling a new cloud offering for enterprises that includes technology from both vendors.

Salesforce SuperPod, a new offering unveiled Monday at the opening of Salesforce's Dreamforce...

From InfoWorld: In the rush to exascale computing, Intel is making a small change that could have a big impact on system design with its upcoming Xeon Phi chip.

Intel on Tuesday promised big performance and power improvements with the redesigned chip, code-named Knights Landing, which analysts said...

From DailyTech: Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V) shareholders voted this week in an overwhelming 99.7 vote among the roughly 80 percent of shareholders who voted to approve of a two-component, $7.4B USD deal to sell or license certain assets to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).

The Financial Times -- a Pearson PLC...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) late last week launched its next generation game console, PlayStation 4 (PS4), in North America. Thanks to a lineup of competitive games, maximum interest from both game developers and end-users, the company managed to sell a record one...

From EETimes: Nvidia and Micron announced new high-end co-processors at the opening of Supercomputing 2013 today. Meanwhile, an online analysis said the next generation of Intel's Xeon Phi, which competes with them both, will be an integrated device.

Supercomputers have become a key testing ground...

From InfoWorld: Mozilla on Monday began rolling out its first major Firefox user interface (UI) change in more than three years, seeding early adopters of the "Nightly" build with the new "Australis" revamp.

Nightly builds are designed for preliminary testing, and as the name implies, are...

From DailyTech: Taiwanese electronics OEM ASUSTek Computer Inc. (TPE:2357) in Q2 and Q3 2012 was roughly tied for the world's fastest growing PC maker, according to the Interactive Data Corp. (IDC). Now its seen that streak of success collapse as poor sales of Windows 8 PCs catch up to it.

As a...