Nokia Restructuring Begins, 4,000 Employees to be Fired

From DailyTech: Can't say we didn't see it coming. You could point to former Microsoft Executive Stephen Elop's appointment as Nokia's new CEO in September as the beginning of a major transition for the Finnish mobile manufacturer, but things had been in disarray for the struggling...

AMD May Start Using ARM Architecture in Its Designs - ARM

From X-bit Labs: ARM Holdings, a leading designer of low-power microprocessor technologies, said that it would try to persuade AMD to abandon its x86 everywhere strategy and adopt ARM architecture for ultra low-power designs for smartphones, tablets and other electronics of the kind...

Google to loosen up Apps for Business contracts

From InfoWorld: Google will allow companies to sign up users for its paid Apps for Business hosted collaboration and communication suite on a month-to-month basis, without having to commit them to an annual contract.

Called the Flexible Plan, this new option will become available...

Verizon Acknowledges 4G LTE Outage

From PC World: Verizon this morning acknowledged that its 4G LTE network was not working for users across the U.S. after reports trickled in overnight about a nationwide outage.

In an update posted through its official Twitter account, Verizon Wireless acknowledged that it was...

Sony: Personal info compromised on PSN

From CNET News.com: Sony acknowledged today that the personal information of its PlayStation Network customers has been compromised.

The company posted an update on its blog today warning its more than 70 million customers that their personal information, including customer names...

News Corp. Hopes to Get at Least $100M for MySpace

From DailyTech: MySpace was one the most popular social network on the internet, but as it failed to continue to evolve and thrive in an increasingly more “social” world. It was replaced by newcomer Facebook years ago as the most popular social network online. Facebook now has...

Crucial Unveils New 25-nanometer m4 SSDs

From DailyTech: Most of the major companies that were in the computer memory market have also jumped into the flash drive and SSD market. The SSD market has a lot of competition today and prices are coming down as storage capacities are going up.

Crucial is one of the firms that has...

AMD Llano Systems Set to Be Widely Available This Quarter - AMD

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices expect to have a lot of code-named Llano accelerated processing units (APUs) on the market as well as product on their base already in the second quarter, the company indicated recently. Still, the company expects the Llano APUs to really...

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