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eWeek: In its most recent quarterly results, HP’s revenue from high-end server sales fell 9 percent year-over-year and 16 percent from the previous quarter. HP executives place the blame for the poor performance on Oracle’s decision to stop supporting HP’s Itanium servers. The two companies share around 140,000 customers, most of whom run Oracle software […]

AllThingsD: Skype has announced the purchase of GroupMe, a start-up founded in April 2010 at a TechCrunch event. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but unnamed sources say the acquisition will cost Skype around $85 million. GroupMe offers group messaging services that work on most smartphone platforms.   SEE ALL ARTICLES  

USAToday: Over the weekend, HP dropped the price on its TouchPad tablet from $399 to just $99. Although consumers had been slow to purchase the mobile device at the higher price point, consumers are apparently rushing to snatch them up at the lower price, with many retail outlets sold out of the device. Last week, […]

CIO: A team from Microsoft and the Dutch Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have developed a new technique for breaking the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure nearly all online transactions and wireless communications. This new technique is three to five times faster than previous methods of compromising AES, but it would still […]

TechWorld: The hacktivist group Anonymous has hacked another military contractor–this time Vanguard Defense, which sells unmanned aerial vehicles. In particular, the group targeted company senior vice president Richard Garcia, a former FBI agent and the head of an organization that acts as a liaison between the FBI and contractors. Anonymous posted about 1GB worth of […]

PCWorld: Just days after it was revealed that Apple filed doctored photos of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet PC in a German court, it now appears that Apple has filed doctored photos of Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone to the district court in The Hague, Netherlands. A picture of the phone filed with the patent lawsuit has […]

InformationWeek: On Thursday, HP announced three major changes to its strategy. First, the world’s number one PC maker may be getting out of the PC business. In a statement, the company said it was exploring “strategic alternatives” for its PC group, including “a full or partial separation” of the business unit “through a spin-off or […]

Reuters: One day after announcing plans to spin off its PC division, kill off webOS and acquire software vendor Autonomy, HP’s share price dropped to a six-year low. The stock fell to $22.76 Friday morning, erasing $14.5 billion from the company’s market value. “Last night HP may have eroded what remained of Wall Street’s confidence […]

PCMagazine: According to a new report from Nielsen, Android spend 61 percent of their app interaction time with the top 50 apps. In addition, the top 10 apps account for 43 percent of user app time. “Despite the hundreds of thousands of apps available for Android, a very small proportion of apps make up the […]

NY Times: Rod Beckstrom, the current chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), has announced that he will leave that position when his contract expires next July. “I am incredibly proud of Icann’s achievements throughout my tenure. In two short years we have advanced this organization to a new level […]

BBC News: Researchers at IBM say they have created a “cognitive computer,” which works much like the human brain. The SyNAPSE system uses two neurosynaptic computing chips, which are capable of “re-wiring” connections in order to learn new things. One of the chips in SyNAPSE has 262,144 of these programmable synapses, and the other has […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Motorola Mobility shareholder John W. Keating is suing the company and its CEO Sanjay Jha. The lawsuit claims that the $12.5 billion Google paid for the company wasn’t high enough, even though it was a 63 percent premium over the stock’s value at the time. “The offered consideration does not compensate shareholders for […]