Industry

Intel to customize chips for big data applications

Intel is looking to solve software gaps with on-chip accelerators and cores

Windows 8 comes to open source PCs with GizmoSphere board

The new entry in the market will compete with the MinnowBoard

Google patches Android after Bitcoin wallet issue

Patch fixes a cryptography flaw in Android that may affect hundreds of thousands of applications

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Cisco to slash 4,000 jobs in bid to move faster

The cuts will thin out middle management and shift resources to key businesses

IBM to acquire endpoint security company Trusteer

IBM is also setting up a cyber security software lab in Israel

4 things to love about Google’s Chromebook Pixel — and 4 things to hate

Google's latest Chrome-OS-powered Chromebook laptop is a sleek machine with a lot to love -- and hate

Microsoft botches six Windows patches in latest Automatic Update

Microsoft acknowledges problems with KB 2876063, KB 2859537, KB 2873872, KB 2843638, KB 2843639, and KB 2868846, all released earlier this week

Microsoft fixes SkyDrive problem, issues persist with Outlook.com

Access to Outlook.com accounts has been restored, but Microsoft is still working on an issue affecting syncing of emails with mobile devices

Lenovo’s smartphone, tablets outsell PCs in first quarter

Lenovo's net profit was up 23 percent in its fiscal first quarter, and it overtook HP to become the world's largest PC maker