Week in review: SeaMicro's powerful server, Office 2010's promising reviews

Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular articles VentureBeat published in the last seven days:

SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry — Coming out of stealth, SeaMicro is dispelling the Silicon Valley myth that you can’t innovate in hardware anymore.

Droid X versus iPhone 4 — Apple’s next challenger is here. The Motorola Droid X that Verizon planned to announce next week turned up on Engadget. How does the next Android superphone stack up to a new iPhone?

Xbox 360′s new model: the clearance sale no one noticed — Besides introducing a new model this week, Microsoft also did something that was long overdue. It cut prices on the older Xbox 360 video game consoles by $50 to get them off store shelves.

HTC Evo 4G problems pile up — Sprint, which made a bad bet on the Palm Pre, isn’t faring much better with its new hero phone, the Android-powered HTC Evo 4G.

BlackBerry addict Mark Zuckerberg pans Apple’s iPhone — Facebook chief executive and religious BlackBerry user Mark Zuckerberg tested switching to Apple’s iPhone over the weekend. It doesn’t look like he was won over.

And here are five more stories we think are important, thought-provoking, or fun:

Office 2010 review roundup — Office 2010 has already been thoroughly reviewed by professional reviewers with advance copies. So depending on who you read, you’ll get anything from a hasty post by a blogger who hates Microsoft or a detailed assessment by, say, Ed Bott, who has written about Microsoft products for a living for years. Even better, you can let VentureBeat skim Ed’s writeup for you.

Twitter trudges through its first World Cup week rife with errors — Twitter’s engineers apparently weren’t joking when they said the service wouldn’t be able to keep up with the World Cup. The microblogging service has suffered bout after bout of errors, reminiscent of its early instability when the company was just starting out.

Solyndra nixes its IPO, but brings in $175M to keep the ball rolling — Solyndra, the maker of cylindrical solar cells that filed to go public late last December, has withdrawn that filing from the SEC. The news spells trouble for the rapidly growing company, and its thin-film solar peers.

One Kings Lane crowns a dotcom survivor as home-furnishing startup’s CEO — Here’s a sign of how hot the once-moribund e-commerce sector is looking: Venture capitalists are chasing down experienced CEOs to run the startups they’ve invested in.

Google gets the fabled GDrive, courtesy of Memeo — When Google announced the ability to upload and store files in Google Docs, that seemed to be as close as the search giant would get to releasing its long-rumored GDrive storage service. But the GDrive is finally here, kind of — it’s part of the new document syncing application offered by a company called Memeo.

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