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Lenovo officials announced Oct. 30 that the company has completed its $2.91 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, making the Chinese systems maker the world’s third-largest smartphone vendor. This comes 10 months after announcing its intent to buy Motorola from Google and less than a month after completing its $2.1 billion acquisition of IBM’s x86 server […]

Hey there, here are your top news stories from eWEEK, sponsored by Dell and Intel. Hewlett-Packard unveiled the Sprout immersive computing platform on Oct. 29. This brings together a scanner, depth sensor, high-resolution camera and projector to create an integrated device that officials said will enable users to merge physical objects into a digital workspace. […]

Just one week after Apple Pay went into operation on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, national drug store chains CVS and Rite Aid have turned off their near-field communication terminals to block its use. This action also blocked Google Wallet, which the two chains had been supporting for several months along with other forms […]

Sanford Russell, director of marketing for Nvidia’s Grid Business Unit, sees the virtual desktop space as a a wide-open market for the company. According to Russell, as VDI rolled out it was hindered by having to rely on CPUs, which delivered the compute power these environments needed, but not the graphics abilities. But now that […]

Microsoft’s recent Patch Tuesday update included fixes for 24 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, including one known as Sandworm. On Oct. 21, Microsoft warned users about another CVE which abuses the same Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding technology that enables the Sandworm vulnerability. Microsoft’s OLE technology enables content to be linked inside of documents. Security firm […]

IBM and Microsoft announced that they are working together to provide their respective enterprise software on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. According to the companies, as adoption of hybrid cloud computing accelerates, this relationship will give clients, partners and developers more choice in the cloud. This Microsoft announcement opens the door for millions of .NET […]

Microsoft’s cloud-in-a-box solution is nearing release, thanks to help from Dell. The Microsoft Cloud Platform System, an Azure-compatible system, will be available beginning Nov. 3 from Dell. CPS is the culmination of an 18-month effort to bring Microsoft’s experience in deploying and operating cloud IT infrastructures to customer data centers. Sam Greenblatt, chief technology evangelist […]

Google recently announced that it will be embracing a new form of two-factor authentication by supporting the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance’s Universal 2nd Factor technology. U2F allows Google’s Chrome users to secure access to Google accounts by way of a physical USB security key device. The FIDO Alliance officially got its start in February […]

IBM will pay chip foundry Globalfoundries $1.5 billion to take IBM’s semiconductor business off its hands. This deal comes less than a month after IBM closed the $2.1 billion deal that sent its low-end x86 server business to Lenovo. Speculation about IBM’s interest in selling its semiconductor business began earlier this year, soon after the […]

Several major announcements were made at the recent Strata + Hadoop World 2014 conference. Business intelligence software provider Tableau Software announced expanded support for Hadoop technologies with new partners, including IBM and Amazon Web Services. Meanwhile, Hortonworks announced version 2.2 of its Hortonworks Data Platform, an enterprise-ready data platform with Hadoop YARN as the architectural […]