
Kindle to get a refresh
Want some more high end market
Amazon is set to release a higher-end Kindle version with a rechargeable protective case for a better battery life.

Apple’s cloud disaster
Blaming Obama now
Fruity Cargo cult Apple has spent billions trying to build its own cloud structure and failed and rather than question its own networking competence it is blaming the government.

Alphabet to flog off part of its robot arm
Alphabet, the search outfit formally known as Google, as placed part of its robotics division, up for sale.

Amazon brings back encryption on Fire
All part of Apple's PR wars
After firing encryption from its Fire Tablets, the online bookseller, Amazon has bought it back after customers complained.

Windows tablets are doing well
Microsoft only bright spot in tablet market
For years Microsoft held a torch for the tablet even while everyone else mocked them. When Apple turned the concept into a gimmick and everyone bought one, Microsoft was mocked for not really understanding the tablet.

Amazon misses Wall Street Expectations
Tiny profit margins
Amazon announced a pretty good quarterly result and immediately suffered from a bad case of falling shares because the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street think that its profit margins are too thin.

VMWare cuts jobs on cloudy results
Looks like the sky really wasn’t cloud’s limit
While the Cloud is supposed to be the savour of big computing, VMWare, which should be doing well is actually suffering.

Amazon sells its own brand of chips
Right to bare ARMS
Online book seller Amazon is selling its own brand of ARM-based computer chips.

Microsoft beating Apple in tablets
Marketing failure
Figures are starting to appear that Apple’s iron grip on the keyboardless netbook market has been lost to its old enemy Microsoft.

Asetek loses its cool over AMD Fury
Cease and Desist could create shortage
Liquid cooler supplier Asetek is furious over AMD’s liquid-cooled R9 Fury X and had its lawyers rattle off a cease and desist order.