ARM Ecosystem collaborates for initial server platform standard

ARM  announced the collaborative development and immediate availability of a platform standard for ARMv8-A based (64-bit) servers, known as the ARM ‘Server Base System Architecture’ (SBSA) specification. This effort included input and support from software companies such as Canonical, Citrix, Linaro,Microsoft, Red Hat and SUSE, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) including Dell and HP along with a broad set of silicon partners.

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Evernote for iOS gets ever better with latest update

Evernote has singlehandedly evolved its cloud note-taking service to a complete ecosystem composed of notebooks, bags and various knick knacks. On the software side, it has gotten better through time. The latest update for iOS users brings four times faster synchronization, faster and more responsive app performance on iOS 7, advanced customization options such as themes (everybody loves themes) and most importantly a fix to some of the more persistent bugs that have confounded users.

Source: TechCrunch

Android 4.4.2 KitKat comes to Moto X on Rogers and Fido

A nice parting gift from Google to Moto X owners in Canada right after yesterday's bombshell announcement (that Motorola's mobile and manufacturing business will be sold to Lenovo), KitKat 4.2.2 is available to Fido and Rogers users. This puts Canadian Moto X owners in the exclusive KitKat club before US carriers who are still soldiering along with the 4.4 update they received last year. 

Source: Motorola Canada

Lenovo acquires Motorola from Google for US $3 billion

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Lenovo has bought Motorola Mobility from Google for US $3 billion. This latest shocker is the latest chapter in the story of Motorola Mobility, a company that was bought by Google in 2012 and that union produced two smartphone models that diversified the Android smartphone landscape. Google says that it thinks Lenovo has what it takes to scale Motorola to a global company which makes sense since Lenovo is already currently a top-three player in the Chinese and Asian smartphone market. Lenovo recently became the leading PC manufacturer, it will be remembered that it similarly purchased IBM's computer business and built it into multiple product lines.

Lenovo gets the Motorola brand, trademark portfolio and access to 2,000 phone and mobile patents which Google will still own. Can Lenovo propel Motorola to the next level as it did the ThinkPad line of notebooks? Who is the big winner in this transaction and what are the repercussions for Google's own mobile device play? Stay tuned as more news unfolds.