Reuters reports RIM might be trying to sell cloud services provider NewBay together with other recently acquired "minor assets" as part of an ongoing strategic review process. 

NewBay provides cloud-based photo, video and social networking services for smartphones and PCs. RIM bought the company for reportedly $100 million back in October 2011. 

The acquisition was a "huge part" of earlier plans to change RIM's faltering futures-- until current CEO Thorsten Heins kicked off the review process of the company's various assets. 

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Lenovo announces a replacement for the current Android-powered ThinkPad Tablet with the ThinkPad Tablet 2-- a Windows 8 device for enterprise customers.

It has a 10.1-inch 1366x768 IPS display handling both touch and stylus (via optional pen accessory) input and runs on Windows 8 Pro. Ports include full-size USB 2.0, mini-HDMI, combination mic/headphone jack and MicroSD, while connectivity comes through wifi and Bluetooth.

The front-facing 2MP camera is paired with a built-in mic array (designed for use with Skype or Lync) while the rear-facing Read more...

AMD shows more than serious intentions of building the next generation of low-power mobile processors-- Apple chip designer Jim Keller joins the company as corporate VP and chief AMD microprocessor core architect. 

Keller is former Apple platform architecture group director, where he led development of several generations of iDevice processor designs. Prior to Apple Keller was VP of design at fabless semiconductor design firm P.A. Semi, a company bought by Apple in 2008 for $278 million. He is also the co-author of the HyperTransport specification, Read more...

Mobility and the bring-your-own-device trend add complexity to the enterprise IT market-- but also add opportunities across sectors as varied as security, unified communications and WLANs, Canalys says.

For example, businesses demand education on mobile device security. To enable a mobile workforce, customers need network monitoring and control, not to mention context-based data access policies. The market lacks a single solution covering protection and control on all fronts, meaning channel partners have a role in advising the best products suiting Read more...