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After crummy earnings, Amazon shareholders are finally showing signs of life | VentureBeat | Business | by Tom Cheredar - shareholders aren’t completely trusting of its vaguely explained strategy. I'd say the strategy has tinges of megalomania.

Apple’s success in enterprise market “unbelieveable,” with more to come, promises Cook | 9to5Mac The focus of the comments was on iOS devices rather than Macs, Apple Stores are also promoting to businesses the ease with with Macs can run Windows as well as OS X, making the switch an easier one. It's the last frontier. Now if they only could discover the true power of Cocoa!

Apportable's SpriteBuilder lets developers run their iOS games on Android | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi - The SpriteBuilder 1.0 suite is billed as the first Objective-C cross-platform development suite. Objective-C is a programming language that Apple uses for its OS X and iOS operating systems. One to keep an eye on. Also RoboVM.org.

AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi - Advanced Micro Devices is launching its code-named Kaveri processors today that represent one of the biggest technical advances that the company has made in some time for both games and other high-performance applications. AMD will always be ATI to me! Viva Montreal!

Samsung races against rumors of an Apple 'iPad Pro' with two new 12-inch tablets - South Korean electronics giant Samsung on Monday fired a preemptive shot across the bow of Apple's widely-rumored, yet still unannounced, large-screened iPad with the new Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2-inch slates. It's a pad, it's a tab, it's Android.

BlueStacks responds to Intel's Android-on-Windows plan: We did this years ago | VentureBeat | Business | by Devindra Hardawar - BlueStacks, a startup that has developed a popular method to run Android apps on Windows and Mac PCs, isn’t too threatened by Intel’s reported entry into this sector. I think this is a neat idea.

‘Siren Servers' as the Matrix - Waking Times - Jaron Lanier in his book “Who Owns the Future” coined the term ‘Siren Servers’ to describe “an elite computer, or coordinated collection of computers, on a network. It is characterized by narcissism, hyperamplified risk aversion, and extreme information asymmetry. This is a must-read.