Hewlett-Packard Set to Keep Its PC Business Unit

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard on Thursday said that it has completed its evaluation of strategic alternatives for its personal systems group (PSG) and has decided the unit will remain part of the company. The decision means that the company will continue to develop itself...

Nvidia Preps GF110-based GeForce GTX 560 Ti‎ Upgrade

From Tom's Hardware: This new Ti will, if VR-Zone is right, be based on the GF110 chip, which makes it a close relative to the 570 and 580 models. It will also mean a drop of the current GF114.

The publication reports that the new 560 Ti will essentially be a 570 with 14 (and one...

Industry Has Two Months of HDD Stock Remaining - Analysts

From X-bit Labs: The situation in Thailand is getting worse as water levels are increasing. As Thailand is a strategic location for the hard disk drive industry, accounting for over 30% of global capacity, the flooding has hit HDD makers hard. But based on the current situation...

Facebook Plans to Place Server Farm Near Arctic Circle

From DailyTech: Server farms produce quite a bit of heat, and require cooling in order to prevent overheating. So what better place to put a server farm than the edge of the Arctic Circle?

Facebook has announced that it plans to build a server farm in Luleå, northern Sweden, which...

Google Music download service looking more and more real

From CNET News.com: Just yesterday, Android phone users who tried to access Google Music from their device's browser were shown a splash page that noted the service's users could not only upload their "personal music collection," but would also be able to "shop millions of songs in...

iPhone 4S Marks Bold 'Moneyball' Bet for Sprint

From eWeek: Apple has sold some 130 million iPhones worldwide, making it easily the world's single most popular smartphone of its kind. Yet the iPhone, which has brought fortune to AT&T and Verizon Wireless in the United States, could be the device that makes or breaks their rival...

Netflix Gobbles Up One-Third of Peak Bandwith Traffic in US

From PC World: This fall, Netflix accounted for 32.7 percent of peak downstream traffic in the United States, compared to 29.7 percent last spring, according to a report from Sandvine. On a daily basis, Netflix averaged 23.3 percent of aggregate traffic, compared to 22.2 percent in...

Nintendo loses nearly $1 billion as Wii sales plummet

From CNET News.com: During the six-month period ended September 30, Nintendo saw its financial performance decline significantly, the company reported in a financial earnings release today.

Nintendo generated 215.7 billion yen ($2.84 billion) in revenue during the six-month period...

RIM Delays PlayBook OS 2.0 Launch to February

From PC World: Research in Motion has delayed the release of its next PlayBook operating system to February, disappointing news for a company that had to deal with worldwide data and messaging outages this month on its BlackBerry phones.

"As much as we’d love to have it in your...

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