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...

Sony Buys Out Ericsson for $1.47 Billion

From DailyTech: Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have become an essential part of many people's everyday lives, and for that reason, Sony is absorbing the entirety of its mobile partnership with Ericsson.

Reports in regards to Sony's interest in taking over started...

IBM CEO Palmisano to Retire, Rometty to Take His Place

From DailyTech: IBM has a long history as an innovative American tech company and is doing quite well in today's market. The company this week announced the replacement of current CEO Samuel J. Palmisano with a new CEO to take effect January 1, 2012.

The person that will be...

AMD Expects Trinity to Offer 20% - 30% Performance Increase

From X-bit Labs: Earlier this year Advanced Micro Devices said that its forthcoming code-named Trinity accelerated processing unit would boost performance-per-watt by 50% compared to Llano. In the real-world applications, the company's new documents show that its next-gen APU will...

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