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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 7:13pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | It's no surprise more Android smartphones are being sold worldwide every year than iPhones, at least, when you add the numbers and count every Android smartphone from every vendor. Apple sells more iPhones than any other company and makes more money per smartphone sold than most of them put together, but Google's still optimistic. The person in charge of Android at Google, Andy Rubin, wrote a blog post from Mobile World Congress on Monday, touting almost 1 million Android smartphone activations per day.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:45pm EST
Digital Trends - Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO and co-founder of LightSquared, resigned his position with the mobile broadband provider today. The decision comes after months of controversy regarding the companyâs satellite-augmented wireless broadband, which would operate on a spectrum adjacent to GPS. The surprising move casts serious doubt over the future of an innovative technology that promised to revolutionize the wireless broadband industry.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:40pm EST
AP - A Miami man is charged with using Facebook postings to threaten to harm or assassinate President Barack Obama during his visit to South Florida last week, according to a federal criminal complaint.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:18pm EST
Yahoo! News - Millions of years ago, there lived penguins so huge they may have been able to parry the attacks of dolphins with their humongous, fish-catching beaks. The bones of some of these prehistoric flightless birds were discovered in 1977, and scientists have …
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:10pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you three great photography apps for your Android phone. Your phone can be …
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:08pm EST
Reuters - Yahoo could be trying to boost its acquisition value by demanding licensing fees from Facebook for the use of its technology, as the one time Web-pioneer considers strategic M&A options, according to patent experts.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:05pm EST
Digital Trends - Last week, Taiwan-based technology company Proview took its battle over the iPad trademark from mainland China to the United States, arguing Apple had engaged in deceptive practices to purchase the trademark, and seeking unspecified damages. Now, Proview has amended its complaint: it doesnât just want damages, it wants its entire 2009 sale of the iPad trademark voided. If that were to happen, Apple would potentially lose the rights to the iPad trademark in the European Union, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:55pm EST
Reuters - Digital music start-up MOG isn't actively trying to sell itself, its chief executive said on Tuesday, responding to a report that said his company is struggling in the competitive music subscription business.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:59pm EST
AP - A Peoria, Ariz., police sergeant has been demoted and suspended for two weeks without pay for posting a photo of a bullet-riddled image of President Barack Obama on Facebook.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:55pm EST
Digital Trends - In case you havenât read any news from the past year, Yahoo has been in something of slump. The former Internet titan has found itself completely obliterated in search, struggling to keep its apps afloat, and has played musical chairs with its executive branch (always a less-than-encouraging move).
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:48pm EST
Reuters - Twitter will expand its advertising program for the Apple Inc iPhone and Google Inc Android devices, hoping to better tap into its growing mobile user base and ramp up revenue.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:18pm EST
Reuters - Apple Inc is hosting a media event next Wednesday, where it is expected to unveil a faster, better-equipped version of its popular iPad tablet to thwart increasing competition from deep-pocketed rivals such as Amazon.com Inc.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:15pm EST
AP - IBM Corp. has laid off roughly 1,100 workers in North America this week, a union organizing group said Tuesday.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:08pm EST
AP - With its own fortunes sinking, Yahoo is angling for a windfall from rising Internet star Facebook.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:59pm EST
AP - A new law could result in fewer TV stations on the air, in exchange for faster wireless data services for smartphones and tablet computers.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:45pm EST
Digital Trends - Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox have announced they are teaming with storage vendors SanDisk and Western Digital to form the Secure Content Storage Association, a new coalition that aims to offer consumers easier ways to store and move their high-definition digital video contentâmeaning, movies and TV showsâfrom device to device as well as access it from cloud services in up to full 1080p resolution. With the working title of âProject Phenix,â the technology aims to make the home sharing and accessing of digital content completely straightforward to consumersâwhile at the same time protecting high-def content end-to-end with DRM technologies to reduce piracy.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:31pm EST
Digital Trends - We have sat through talk after talk about Yahooâs potential sale to this company or that company, but in its bid to stay relevant among its competitors, has Yahoo gone too far? According to The New York Times, Yahoo may be seeking legal action against Facebook in what may play out as the first-ever battle over social media patents.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:25pm EST
AP - Sony says it has sold 1.2 million PlayStation Vitas worldwide, exceeding the company's expectations amid stiff competition from mobile devices and Nintendo.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:25pm EST
AP - Congress is about to open a new, real-time window into its members' stock trades, real estate deals and other financial transactions, allowing anyone to view the information online within weeks of the investments.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:23pm EST
AP - Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality — meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots at their command and the ability to experience being in another place without leaving home.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:26pm EST
AP - Microsoft is scrambling to preserve what's left of its kingdom.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:59pm EST
Yahoo! News - As expected, Apple has just confirmed that it will hold an event on Wednesday, March 7 â and we all know what that means. All signs point to an iPad 3 announcement, from earlier rumors to Apple's own invitation, which features …
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:52pm EST
Yahoo! News - The Kinect motion-sensing game peripheral is a lot of fun when it comes to family-friendly entertainment. But Whole Foods, in connection with a third-party developer, believes that Kinect may be the future of shopping. The Kinect-enabled shopping cart experience begins with you scanning …
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:03pm EST
AP - iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending Feb. 27, 2012:
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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 8:05pm EST
Mashable - Foursquare tells people where you are. A new mobile app called Forecast, which is opening to Facebook users on Tuesday, instead tells them where you will be.
Here's how the free app for iPhone and Android works: Users make "Forecasts" that include what they plan to do and what time. Those Forecasts are broadcast to their friends, and can serve as informal invitations to join.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:15pm EST
Reuters - The White House proposed on Thursday a "privacy bill of rights" that would give consumers more control over their data but relies heavily for now on voluntary commitments by Internet companies like Google Inc and Facebook.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:15pm EST
Reuters - The White House proposed on Thursday a "privacy bill of rights" that would give consumers more control over their data but relies heavily for now on voluntary commitments by Internet companies like Google Inc and Facebook.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:43pm EST
Reuters - Miami officials on Thursday said they are investigating R&B singer Chris Brown, who is currently on probation for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna, following reports that he may have been involved in the theft of a mobile phone.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:43pm EST
Reuters - Miami officials on Thursday said they are investigating R&B singer Chris Brown, who is currently on probation for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna, following reports that he may have been involved in the theft of a mobile phone.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:30pm EST
AP - Apple CEO Tim Cook believes the world's most valuable company has more money than it needs. His next challenge is to figure out whether Apple should break from the cash-hoarding ways of his predecessor, the late Steve Jobs, and dip into its $98 billion bank account to pay shareholders a dividend this year.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:02pm EST
AP - An Occupy Wall Street protester and prosecutors are tussling over his tweets, a clash that's raising legal issues of privacy in an age of living online.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:02pm EST
AP - An Occupy Wall Street protester and prosecutors are tussling over his tweets, a clash that's raising legal issues of privacy in an age of living online.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:55pm EST
Reuters - TiVo Inc added 234,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter as the maker of digital television recorders sold more of its products through agreements with cable operators.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:55pm EST
Reuters - TiVo Inc added 234,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter as the maker of digital television recorders sold more of its products through agreements with cable operators.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:44pm EST
AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to spend years turning itself around as it addresses internal problems and battles broader threats from smartphones and tablet computers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:14pm EST
Yahoo! News - You don't have to be Professor X or Yoda to control the Board of Imagination with your mind. This futuristic skateboard by Chaotic Moon Labs can read your brain waves and take you to where you want to go, even if you're …
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:14pm EST
Yahoo! News - You don't have to be Professor X or Yoda to control the Board of Imagination with your mind. This futuristic skateboard by Chaotic Moon Labs can read your brain waves and take you to where you want to go, even if you're …
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:08pm EST
Yahoo! News - What's amazing about the Adafruit Internet of Things printer isn't the fact that it converts your entire digital Twitter feed into a long, printed strip of paper. The truly amazing part is that there are other machines out there that already do …
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:08pm EST
Yahoo! News - What's amazing about the Adafruit Internet of Things printer isn't the fact that it converts your entire digital Twitter feed into a long, printed strip of paper. The truly amazing part is that there are other machines out there that already do …
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:51pm EST
AP - Customers have been leaving T-Mobile USA, the country's No. 4 cellphone company, for the last two years. Now that all three of the bigger carriers have the iPhone, that stream has turned into a flood.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:51pm EST
AP - Customers have been leaving T-Mobile USA, the country's No. 4 cellphone company, for the last two years. Now that all three of the bigger carriers have the iPhone, that stream has turned into a flood.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:45pm EST
Digital Trends - Number four U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile is attempting to shake off the dust of the abandoned takeover effort from AT&T, announcing a revamped âChallenger Strategyâ that is intended to make the carrier more competitive against the likes of Sprint, AT&T, and the top U.S. mobile operator, Verizon Wireless. Of course, being competitive in the mobile market these days means moving towards 4G LTE technology â and thatâs exactly what T-Mobile says itâs going to do, announcing plans to begin deploying LTE services in 2013. Furthermore, T-Mobile is going to re-jigger its network, drastically cutting back services for its 2G/EDGE customers in order to boost its HSPA+ high-speed broadband offerings â and, in so doing, make its network more interoperable with AT&T. That, in turn, could pave the way toward T-Mobile eventually being able to offer Appleâs iPhone.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:45pm EST
Digital Trends - Number four U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile is attempting to shake off the dust of the abandoned takeover effort from AT&T, announcing a revamped âChallenger Strategyâ that is intended to make the carrier more competitive against the likes of Sprint, AT&T, and the top U.S. mobile operator, Verizon Wireless. Of course, being competitive in the mobile market these days means moving towards 4G LTE technology â and thatâs exactly what T-Mobile says itâs going to do, announcing plans to begin deploying LTE services in 2013. Furthermore, T-Mobile is going to re-jigger its network, drastically cutting back services for its 2G/EDGE customers in order to boost its HSPA+ high-speed broadband offerings â and, in so doing, make its network more interoperable with AT&T. That, in turn, could pave the way toward T-Mobile eventually being able to offer Appleâs iPhone.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:23pm EST
Reuters - Two executives who left security software maker McAfee after Intel Corp bought the company last year have started a firm that is developing technology to help corporations and government agencies track down elusive hackers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:23pm EST
Reuters - Two executives who left security software maker McAfee after Intel Corp bought the company last year have started a firm that is developing technology to help corporations and government agencies track down elusive hackers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:04pm EST
AP - Liberty Interactive Corp. said Thursday that its operating income rose 3 percent as sales from its home shopping network QVC increased.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:04pm EST
AP - Liberty Interactive Corp. said Thursday that its operating income rose 3 percent as sales from its home shopping network QVC increased.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:29pm EST
Digital Trends - Today Spotify unveiled a bevy of new features to its music player, including Gapless Playback and Crossfade (you check out a full list of whatâs new here). First, a brief explanation of what these tools are:Â
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:29pm EST
Digital Trends - Today Spotify unveiled a bevy of new features to its music player, including Gapless Playback and Crossfade (you check out a full list of whatâs new here). First, a brief explanation of what these tools are:Â
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:35pm EST
AP - Two Baltimore law firms have filed a lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the site has violated privacy laws.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:35pm EST
AP - Two Baltimore law firms have filed a lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the site has violated privacy laws.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:20am EST
Digital Trends - Freelance photographer Carl-Frederic Salicath admits that heâs not averse to a bit of drooling when it comes to looking over the latest product releases in the world of digital cameras, but at the same time heâs always been fascinated by early photographic devices such as the Kodak Brownie.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:13am EST
Reuters - Finding Nemo is about to get a lot easier with the launch of a scientific survey that will allow anyone with access to the internet to take a virtual tour of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:04am EST
Reuters - PayPal, the online payments company owned by eBay Inc, just got a new rival in the race to develop a mobile payment service that can be used in physical stores.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:44am EST
Reuters - Apple's top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh workers to churn out ever more gadgets, despite the firm's reputation as a tough employer that has put it under a thorough probe into its labor practices.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:13am EST
AP - The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools are able to do a better job of tracking what you do and where you go.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:11am EST
Digital Trends - Last month we learned that Apple was planning to open a store inside one of the worldâs most famous department, Harrods in London.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:03am EST
AP - California is clamping down on nosy mobile applications, telling them they must give people advance warning if they want to keep pulling sensitive information from smartphones and computer tablets.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 11:57pm EST
Digital Trends - As confirmed on the official Verizon Twitter account this morning, the cellular service provider noted a problem with the 4G LTE network. However, the spokesperson noted that the â3G data, voice and text services are operating reliably.â Unhappy customers in Detroit, Phoenix, Arizona, Columbus, Chicago, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and Philadelphia posted complaints on the Verizon discussion forums throughout the morning. Some of the customers also stated that 3G service was unavailable at the same time. According to Verizon Wireless spokesman Tom Pica, Verizon Wireless started receiving customers calls about the outages around 6:30 A.M. Eastern time.Â
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 11:44pm EST
Digital Trends - Last year saw an increase in identity theft incidents when compared to 2010. According to a fraud report from Javelin Strategy & Research, there has been an increase of 13 percent in ID Theft for 2011, and some of the blame can be pinned on the rise of social media and smartphone use.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 10:45pm EST
Reuters - South Korea's top Internet provider, KT Corp plans to charge data-heavy content providers such as Google's Youtube and Internet-enabled TV service operators to subsidize costly network upgrades, a KT executive said on Thursday.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 9:41pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to turn off in-app purchases on your iPhone. Some apps let …
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 9:29pm EST
Yahoo! News - Was your favorite part about a visit to the Air and Space Museum the little packets of space ice cream they sell at the gift shop? If so, you'll be glad to know that scientists are preparing to create a new generation …
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 7:16pm EST
AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Meg Whitman pleaded for patience Thursday as she described operational challenges and other internal problems that contributed to a decline in earnings at one of the world's largest technology companies.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 7:03pm EST
Reuters - Everything Everywhere, Britain's biggest mobile carrier, expects to start building a next-generation LTE network by the end of the year, catching up with the United States and parts of Scandinavia and Asia that already have more advanced networks.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 6:56pm EST
Mashable - 1. Alarm Clock Plus
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 6:21pm EST
Reuters - Chip-design software maker Synopsys Inc posted a quarterly profit that beat analysts' estimates, helped by strong demand for its new products, and raised its full-year outlook.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 3:48pm EST
Reuters - International Business Machines is gearing up to take a chunk of the growing Internet security market by applying its data analytics to help companies and organizations fight cyberattacks.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:14am EST
AP - Microsoft is hooking up MSN.com with a hipper sidekick to broaden its appeal and stay on top of the Internet's hottest topics.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 5:09am EST
AP - An EU court is ruling that social networking sites can't be compelled to install general filters to prevent illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 4:19am EST
AP - Authorities have seized iPads from retailers in more Chinese cities in an escalating dispute between Apple Inc. and a struggling local company over the trademark for the popular tablet computer, news reports said Thursday.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 3:47am EST
AP - They won't be there in person, but singer Whitney Houston's millions of fans worldwide will be able to share in her homecoming service Saturday as they watch her private funeral on the Internet.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 1:10am EST
Time.com - You no longer have to physically attend shows in Manhattan to see the New York Fashion Week collections being presented in real time
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 12:54am EST
Digital Trends - Good bye traditional video. According to a new study, viewers are watching more videos online, and at the same time, are increasingly engaged in the content they watch. Itâs not just desktop viewing eitherâvideo plays on tablets, gaming consoles and connected TVs have nearly doubled since quarter three of last year.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 12:31am EST
Digital Trends - With Research In Motion having had a somewhat torrid time of it of late, executives at the company will be heartened to learn that its decision to cut the price of its beleaguered PlayBook tablet appears to have scored some gains in its home market.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 10:53pm EST
Digital Trends - Announced on the companyâs official site recently, Seattle-based Puzzazz has designed a technology called Touchwrite that recognizes letters and numbers on e-readers. While handwriting technology isnât a new achievements, this is the first time any company has found a way to use the technology on devices like Amazonâs Kindle Touch. Puzzazz officials have shown off an example of the technology working on a Kindle while playing a game of Sudoku. Users can draw a number within a Sudoku box on the game board and it appears on the Kindle. Users also have a choice between drawing a tiny version of the number in a specific box or drawing a large version which is placed wherever the finger originated. In addition, users can tap the screen in order to place potential guesses on the game board. Â
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 10:28pm EST
Reuters - Yahoo Inc's efforts to craft a complex $17 billion asset swap with its Asian partners stumbled over how to value Taobao, the fast-growing online retail business owned by China's Alibaba Group, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 10:26pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to set up the face unlock feature of your Android 4.0 …
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 10:11pm EST
Yahoo! News - Are you a self-confessed klutz or an adrenaline junkie? You probably choose not to carry your phone all the time â at least not without protection like the one Snow Lizard Products believes it can offer. The company claims its upcoming …
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 9:55pm EST
Mashable - Prototype 2 Screenshot
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:46pm EST
Reuters - Nvidia Corp warned that delays in ramping up new manufacturing technology are affecting sales of its PC graphics chips and that smartphone chip-customer Samsung Electronics has become a rival.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:45pm EST
Reuters - Clearwire Corp said its 2012 revenue may fall, or at best remain at 2011 levels, as it faces increased competition at its biggest customer, Sprint Nextel , sending its shares down nearly 9 percent in after hours trade.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:58pm EST
AP - Nothing stirs the blood of baseball fans quite like "pitchers and catchers report."
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 9:04am EST
AP - Protesters are coming by the thousands to Chicago, armed with smartphones, video cameras and social media links that will allow them to instantly map strategy, share plans and disseminate images of what's happening — right in front of a police force renowned for responding with tough tactics.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:18am EST
Digital Trends - Being in the music blogging business is becoming fraught with danger, as the owners of RnBXclusive.com have just found out, following the seizure of the domain by the Serious Organized Crime Agency in the UK. They havenât just lost their site either, but have been arrested for fraud.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:09am EST
AP - It's become the routine in the cable industry that subscribers stream out the door every quarter, hanging up on cable in favor of service from satellite or phone companies. But in the October to December quarter, Comcast Corp. nearly managed to stop that flow.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:46am EST
AP - Alibaba Group and Japan's Softbank will go directly to Yahoo's chief executive, bypassing negotiators from the U.S. Internet company, after talks over the sale of Yahoo's Asian holdings broke down, a person familiar with the negotiations said Wednesday.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:43am EST
Reuters - A debt-laden Chinese technology firm seeking to ban all shipments of Apple's popular iPad tablet into and out of the country has been told that China's customs authorities are unlikely to intervene in the trademark battle.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:28am EST
Reuters - Talks between Yahoo Inc and China's Alibaba Group over the U.S. Internet giant's Asian assets have hit an impasse, throwing their plans for a $17 billion tax-free asset swap into question, according to sources briefed on the situation.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:47am EST
Reuters - Apple, which became the world's largest smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter, will see its iPhone market share slipping for a couple of quarters as the novelty of its latest 4S model runs out, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:55am EST
Digital Trends - We donât know exactly what the former Research In Motion co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have been doing since they stepped down from the top job last month, but if they want to keep their stress levels down, itâs probably wiser for them to take regular strolls in the local park than spend too much time reading the news.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:51am EST
Digital Trends - Cord cutters, you now have another company vying for your streaming attention with original programming: Hulu. The streaming video service has followed Netflixâs recent foray into original programming with a series of its own called Battleground. The Hulu seriesâ first two episodes are currently available as of today for free, and Hulu plans to release a new episode every week on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:09pm EST
Digital Trends - As mentioned within an official blog post on Time Warner Cable Untangled, the cable provider is launching a beta test of a streaming application called TWC TV that allows subscribers to access live TV at a desktop or laptop computer. After logging into TWCTV.com, the user can browser through channel listings organized by network and includes both the show name as well as the episode name. The user interface includes a search function that allows subscribers to find content by a personâs name, showâs title or episode name. Similar to a TiVo interface, the guide contains up to seven days of data and users can organize content by HD quality or setting up a group of favorite channels.Â
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:04pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you three free apps for your Android phone to help you plan the …
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 9:52pm EST
Yahoo! News - Scientists from the University of Birmingham's Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory have created the teensiest heart in the world â one that can't be seen by the naked eye. The nano-size valentine is made out of gold and palladium atoms on a …
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 9:19pm EST
Reuters - U.S. communications regulators dealt a severe blow on Tuesday to LightSquared's plans to establish a high-speed wireless network, proposing to withdraw authority for the land-based portion after government experts said it would interfere with the GPS system.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:56pm EST
Reuters - Zynga Inc failed to boost the ranks of its online players compared to the earlier quarter, fanning worries that it will have to rely on new games and other ways to squeeze more revenue out of its users.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:47pm EST
AP - Yahoo's hopes for a fresh start under a new CEO faded Tuesday as its closely watched discussions to sell most of its Asian holdings unraveled and a frustrated shareholder announced that he will try to seize four seats on the struggling Internet company's board.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:28pm EST
Mashable - Sony is developing power outlet technology that will track energy consumption. The next logical step? Charging users by how much energy they consume while charging their smartphones, laptops and other devices.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:26am EST
Reuters - Philips Electronics said it shut down one of its servers on Monday because of a possible cyber attack and that it was investigating the nature and extent of the information that might have been accessed.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:19am EST
AP - UnitedHealth Group's Optum business is launching a service that allows doctors to share information about patients over the Internet, as health care companies continue their push to improve care with better coordination.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 9:14am EST
AP - Zynga will show whether it was able to further boost its rapidly growing number of followers, as well as its profit and revenue as a publicly traded company, when the online game maker reports fourth-quarter results Tuesday.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 9:02am EST
Reuters - Between 2011 and 2016 the amount of mobile data traffic will grow at a compound annual rate of 78 percent as the number of mobile devices connected to the Internet exceeds the number of people on Earth in four years' time, according to a study by Cisco Systems Inc.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:48am EST
Reuters - A Chinese tech firm that says it owns the iPad trademark, plans to seek a ban on exports of Apple Inc's computer tablets from China, a lawyer for the company said.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:04am EST
Digital Trends - Intelâs push into the world of mobile device processors appears to be moving forward, as a new image has been leaked of whatâs believed to be Motorolaâs first smartphone to use Intelâs Medfield system-on-a-chip.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 3:35am EST
AP - A Chinese company said Tuesday it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple's iPads due to a dispute over ownership of the trademark.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:32pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show three great free apps for the iPhone that will help you plan the perfect …
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:23pm EST
Yahoo! News - Looking for a totally cool RC helicopter toy that's perfect for kids and kids at heart? Then check out the innovative new Force Flyer that's controlled, literally, by a wave of the hand. To pilot the Force Flyer, you need to first …
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:08pm EST
Mashable - Cupid's big day is upon us again, and Google is celebrating the Feb. 14 holiday with an animated Doodle that demonstrates the limitations of the company's search engine when romance is thrown into the mix.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:23pm EST
AP - Google's $12.5 billion bid to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approvals from U.S. and European antitrust regulators, moving Google a major step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 5:54pm EST
Reuters - A U.S. market regulator is for now dropping insider trading cases against three Swiss asset managers, despite accusations that two of the defendants improperly thwarted its investigation, including by throwing out a BlackBerry.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:25pm EST
Time.com - The Roman forum was a reminder -- and the birth control clash -- of just how much influence the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has lost since the abuse crisis erupted in America
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:15pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | "I have an iPhone, but it's just a phone to me," the person I was speaking with said. (Perhaps he knew I was an Android fan.) "I'm not, like, fanatical about it or anything."
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:14pm EST
AP - Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approval of European antitrust regulators, moving Google one step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:25pm EST
Reuters - Apple Inc said on Monday that a U.S. non-profit labor group has begun an "unprecedented" inspection of working conditions at its main contract manufacturers, including Foxconn's plants in southern China, as the maker of the IPhone continues to grapple with persistent image problems there.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:17pm EST
AP - The EU's antitrust watchdog has approved Google's $12.5 billion takeover of cell phone maker Motorola.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:15pm EST
Digital Trends - Prior to Mobile World Congress, Samsung has announced the Galaxy Tab 2. The new 7-inch tablet will run Android Ice Cream Sandwich (meaning you can add it to the short list of devices that can access the new Chrome app) and feature Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi with 3G options.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:53pm EST
Digital Trends - They say the value of an artistâs work increases after he or she passes away, but not quite like this. Sony Music and Apple are both currently being criticized by fans in the United Kingdom for raising the price of soul and R&B singer Whitney Houstonâs greatest hits album just hours after the artist died Saturday afternoon.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:44pm EST
Yahoo! News - When you think of the iPad, you instantly associate it with Apple. But in China where several fake Apple Stores have been shuttered before, a December court ruling stated that the company didn't even own the trademark to the iPad name. Now, authorities have …
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:35pm EST
Yahoo! News - Less than a month after announcing a controversial new privacy policy that shares user data across all its sites with no opt-out option, Google is introducing a system to monitor all online activity of those who participate in a program called Screenwise. In …
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:01pm EST
Reuters - A young Saudi blogger and columnist has been deported to his homeland to face trial soon after fleeing from death threats triggered by comments on the social network Twitter seen as blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammad.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:18am EST
AP - Queen Elizabeth II has a new sidekick for royal events: The Duchess of Cambridge.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:05am EST
AP - Dozens of flights were delayed Monday at Amsterdam's busy Schiphol Airport after a man claiming to have a bomb locked himself in a toilet, sparking the evacuation of two terminals, officials said.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:04am EST
Reuters - Facebook diminishes shareholder rights with its dual-class share structure and limits the accountability of its board of directors to investors, proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services said on Monday.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:02am EST
AP - Apple said Monday that an independent group, the Fair Labor Association, has started inspecting working conditions in the Chinese factories where its iPads and iPhones are assembled.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:54am EST
AP - Is Rupert Murdoch's best-selling newspaper in open revolt?
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:50am EST
AP - Apple's stock broke above $500 for the first time Monday. It was the latest step in a rally that began more than two weeks ago, when the company reported staggering sales and profits for the holiday quarter.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:37am EST
Reuters - Guests at some New York Fashion Week shows and others watching online now have a new way to identify the looks they see sashaying down the runways.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:18am EST
AP - Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:04am EST
AP - Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used by the Pentagon and the CIA to make satellite signals virtually impossible to track.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 5:09am EST
Reuters - Marin Software, a startup that publishes applications used to manage online advertising campaigns, has raised $30 million in a new investment round led by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:51am EST
Reuters - Apple Inc raised the stake in an intensifying global patent battle with Samsung Electronics by targeting the latest model using Google's fast growing Android software, a move which may affect other Android phone makers.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 2:28pm EST
Mashable - The 54th Grammy Awards airs tonight, and we're capturing all the action for you on scene in Los Angeles and remotely from New York City. Join us as we dish the details before, during and after the ceremony, which starts at 5 p.m. PT. Mashable's Christina Warren is in L.A. and ready to give you the inside scoop from the winners.
During the broadcast, the Recording Academy plans to pay tribute to icon Whitney Houston, who died on the eve of this year's Grammys. Please share your thoughts with us about the tribute, winners and online buzz.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:05pm EST
AP - Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 4:30am EST
Reuters - Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger on Sunday, police said, despite fears voiced by human rights groups that he could face execution in his home country over Twitter comments he made that were deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 9:23pm EST
Reuters - Japan industrial robot maker Fanuc Ltd (6954.T) plans to build a new factory near Tokyo to double its domestic output capacity of machine tools to produce parts of smart phones by the end of the year, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 5:10pm EST
Mashable - Welcome to the Linternet.
After a 38-point outing to lead the New York Knicks over Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night, point guard Jeremy Lin has tightened the stranglehold he's had on the World Wide Web since his improbable surge to NBA stardom began just several days ago.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 2:35pm EST
AP - It's not the face of North Korea the world is used to: five young musicians adding a playful twist to one of the most popular Western pop songs of the 1980s.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 2:01pm EST
Digital Trends - As reported by Reuters this week, 36-year-old Billy Payne Jr. and his 23-year-old girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, were both murdered after removing and blocking a woman previously on their Facebook friendâs list named Jenelle Potter. The parents of an 8-month-old baby boy named Tyler where allegedly shot and killed within their own home by Marvin Enoch âBuddyâ Potter Jr., the 60-year-old father of the blocked woman, as well as 38-year-old Jamie Lynn Curd who has a romantic interest in Jenelle Potter. When police discovered the victims, Payne also has his throat slashed open and 8-month-old Tyler was found unharmed laying in the arms of the deceased mother.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 1:54pm EST
Reuters - Tens of thousands of protesters took part in rallies across Europe on Saturday against an international anti-piracy agreement they fear will curb their freedom to download movies and music for free and encourage Internet surveillance.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 1:53pm EST
Mashable - The tech-savvy, gun-toting father who blasted nine hollow-point rounds into his daughter's laptop after she wrote a disrespectful Facebook post is dealing with his newfound notoriety much the same way he handled the girl's rant: publicly and proactively.
If you haven't seen the now-viral video, here's what happened: Tommy Jordan of North Carolina has a 15-year-old daughter who posted an indignant note to Facebook in which she complained about and harshly criticized her parents for forcing her do too many chores around the house and generally making her life a hassle.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 11:45am EST
Digital Trends - WOA sounds like what you might tell a horse when you want it to stop, but itâs also the working acronym for Windows on ARM, which Microsoftâs Steven Sinofsky recently detailed in a revealing blog post. Iâm clearly going to have some fun with the acronym, but the new details of the operating system have some pretty heavy implications, too.There really are some little nuggets in Stevenâs Blog post that suggest this could be a game changer on a lot of fronts.It might even make tablets as we know them obsolete.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 11:29am EST
AP - Britain's biggest-selling newspaper was fighting to contain the damage after five employees at The Sun tabloid were arrested Saturday in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 12:17am EST
Digital Trends - Racking up over 3.5 million views on YouTube over the last 48 hours, a North Carolina man named Tommy Jordan, father of a fifteen-year old teenage girl named Hannah, decided to respond to his daughterâs complaints about their family life. His daughter posted a lengthy rant about her parents on Facebook and attempted to hide the post with the privacy settings Facebook provides for all users. However, her father somehow ended up with a copy to her diatribe and decided to film a video response called âFacebook Parenting: For the troubled teenâ. He had recently spent over $100 as well as several hours of his time upgrading her laptop, thus the actions on the video were very much an emotional response to what he perceived was a lack of gratitude on her part.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 11:12pm EST
Digital Trends - When it comes to purchasing equipment, most military machines around the world will spend their time leafing through catalogs packed with bullets and bombs. The US Air Force (USAF), however, is also taking a close look at something elseâAppleâs iPad.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 10:51pm EST
AP - She's been a sensation since she's been born, and now Blue Ivy has made her public debut.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 9:48pm EST
Digital Trends - âReports of my death are greatly exaggerated,â Mark Twain famously said upon hearing that a newspaper had published his obituary.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 8:14pm EST
AP - Netflix pressed the rewind button on its fourth-quarter earnings after settling allegations that the video subscription service violated a consumer-privacy law.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 7:19pm EST
Reuters - Security researchers said they found a vulnerability in the Google Inc mobile payments platform which is currently available in phones sold by Sprint Nextel Corp.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 6:24pm EST
Mashable - Alex Goldfayn is CEO of the Evangelist Marketing Institute. His new book is called Evangelist Marketing: What Apple, Amazon and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn't).
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 6:16pm EST
Digital Trends - Try to imagine you are Microsoftâs CEO, Steve Ballmer. Youâre weary of Appleâs perennial coolness, and of the fact that Mac sales have been growing at a startling clip. Your company basically invented the tablet 10 years ago, but didnât have the chutzpah to take it mainstream, and now Apple has built the most valuable company in the world on the popularity of mobile devices. Youâre still essentially minting money, Windows 8 is just over the horizon, but a voice in the back of your head is nagging that something needs to change. Found in this position, you might direct all your companyâs resources toward innovation, to creating fascinating new products the world canât live without. Or, you could just start building Microsoft retail stores directly across the mall from Apple Stores. As Ballmer told Business Week recently, âWell, the traffic is going to be there, and weâve got to beat them anyway.â
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 4:39pm EST
Yahoo! News - Chocolates that you picked up from the grocery store on the way home from work a few minutes before the big V-Day date are not sexy. In the world of fine taste, they rate somewhere around squirt cheese, Spam, and tuna casserole â which …
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:31pm EST
Reuters - A privacy debate surrounding fledgling social network Path went viral this week, triggering discussions on blogs and on Twitter about how far social networks can go in using members' private data.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:15pm EST
Yahoo! News - If Albert Einstein were alive to witness Italy's Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) in action, he might just start dancing. That's because the tungsten sphere, just over a foot in diameter, is meant to orbit the Earth and help scientists prove part …
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 12:49pm EST
AP - Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 12:04pm EST
Mashable - iTunes Store users have long reported curious problems with Apple's digital store -- mysterious purchases, gift card money disappearing, changes to account information. And recent reports have revealed that those complaints account for more than 70 pages on an Apple forum.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 10:22am EST
Mashable - One Pirate Bay user successfully ported the whole of The Pirate Bay onto a USB drive. This is made possible now that the site has transitioned to magnet links to save on bandwidth and likely because it leaves behind less potentially incriminating evidence on The Pirate Bay's own servers.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:40pm EST
Time.com - Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:03pm EST
Digital Trends - The toy and game giant Hasbro has announced details of a deal with leading social game developer Zynga that will allow it to develop a range of physical products based on Zyngaâs popular online games.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:53pm EST
AP - Well, now we know how she does it: With lots of YouTube breaks and double-brewed coffee. In this so-much-information era, designer Cynthia Rowley spilled her work habits to the audience gathered Thursday night for the runway preview of her fall collection during New York Fashion Week.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:41pm EST
Digital Trends - More woes for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week that it would be handing out iPhones and iPads to its employees in May, replacing the BlackBerry devices currently used.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:19pm EST
Reuters - Incoming CEO Kazuo Hirai aims to re-shape Sony Corp by linking hardware and software through online networks -- a model he used at its PlayStation unit -- dismissing any suggestion the battered brand would revert to a gadget-centered strategy under his management.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:05pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show three great photo for the iPhone that'll help you take amazing pictures. The …
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 9:58pm EST
Yahoo! News - What do you see when you close your eyes and imagine robots? Probably tough, metallic machines that can withstand all sorts of extreme conditions. While that's usually the case with most DARPA-funded creations, the government agency believes there's a future for robots …
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:41pm EST
Reuters - Roman Catholic Church leaders unveiled an Internet teaching project on Thursday to help clergy around the world root out pedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential abusers.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:17pm EST
Digital Trends - A new app called Cinemagram launched today, and itâs getting a lot of attention for bringing animated GIFs to the masses. Itâs become a popular art form across Tumblr and fashion-focused social networks, and until recently came with a fairly complicated process. Youâd need editing software access and know-how, as well as a good deal of patience. Of course there are generators out there but those clearly donât produce the results you get from doing it yourself.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:51pm EST
Mashable - [More from Mashable: Fisker Karma Electric Supercar Struts Its Stuff at CES 2012 [PICS]]
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:39pm EST
AP - LinkedIn provided further evidence of online networking's popularity and moneymaking potential with a fourth-quarter performance that got a glowing review on Wall Street.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:24pm EST
AP - A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments' requests.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:12pm EST
Digital Trends - All four major U.S. cell phone carriers have now released their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, and all three of iPhone carriers tout their success during the quarter, bolstered by new subscribers to their wireless voice and data services. No surprise for a phone more popular than all Android smartphones combined, right?
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 3:05pm EST
AP - Oracle Corp. is escalating its rivalry with German business-software maker SAP AG with a $1.9 billion purchase of Taleo Corp., a company that helps businesses hire and manage their employees.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:00pm EST
Reuters - Apple Inc plans to introduce its latest iPad tablet at an event in the first week in March, the website AllThingsD reported, citing unnamed sources.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:00pm EST
AP - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra officials insist it's not "American Idol" meets Mozart.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:50pm EST
AP - Groupon had a lot to prove with its first earnings report as a public company. The 14 percent slide in its stock Thursday suggests investors wanted more.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:49pm EST
Digital Trends - Kodak has announced it plans to stop making digital cameras, camcorders, and digital picture frames, phasing out the products by the middle of the year. The move marks the end of an era for Kodak, taking the company out of the photography business it virtually defined during the 20th century. Kodak is currently in bankruptcy protection; it says it plans to seek out partners to license the Kodak brand for other products, and the company will still offer photo printing, desktop inkjet, and online/software services printers directly to consumers.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:45pm EST
Yahoo! News - Two words come to mind when the AlphaDog is involved: apex predator. Sure, it's a robot and not really a predator, but it looks so terrifying it will cause just about anyone to shake in their boots. We first heard of AlphaDog …
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:44pm EST
ContributorNetwork - You may use an app on your home PC or Mac, like Tomboy or Notational Velocity, to take text notes or virtual "scrapbooks" of pictures. But you might not have known that many notetaking programs have companion apps for your Android smartphone, that let you view and even create and edit new notes on the go. Some of these even let you add pictures you take on your phone to your scrapbooks, or check off items on your shopping list (for instance).
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:51am EST
Yahoo! News - Scientists believe they have discovered our oldest known ancestor in Namibia, Africa. No, not the first human â but quite possibly the first animal to have ever lived on planet Earth. The 760-million-year-old sponge shown above is the earliest known animal to …
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:08am EST
AP - Picture it: Save for a few disposable point-and-shoots, Kodak is exiting the camera business.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:24am EST
Reuters - Oracle Corp agreed to buy Taleo Corp, a maker of Web-based software for recruiting employees, for about $1.9 billion, as technology giants battle for the top spot in the fast-growing cloud computing market.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:07am EST
Reuters - There are magazines, television shows and books about food. So why not a social network?
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:49am EST
Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's reworked tablet PC does not look like a copycat version of the iPad, a German court said, affirming a preliminary assessment and dealing another legal blow to Apple Inc.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:49am EST
Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's reworked tablet PC does not look like a copycat version of the iPad, a German court said, affirming a preliminary assessment and dealing another legal blow to Apple Inc.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:15am EST
Digital Trends - Announced way back in July last year during Comic-Con, Microsoft has finally given its limited edition Star Wars themed Xbox 360 and the Kinect Star Wars game a release date. Originally scheduled for last holiday season, itâs now set for April 3 in both the USA and the UK.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:15am EST
Digital Trends - Announced way back in July last year during Comic-Con, Microsoft has finally given its limited edition Star Wars themed Xbox 360 and the Kinect Star Wars game a release date. Originally scheduled for last holiday season, itâs now set for April 3 in both the USA and the UK.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:28am EST
Reuters - Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone operator, missed quarterly revenue forecasts on Thursday as increasingly tough trading in Spain and Italy overshadowed solid performances in emerging markets and northern Europe.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:13am EST
AP - A Muslim convert from Brooklyn who ran a website that posted threats against the creators of the Comedy Central television show "South Park" for supposedly insulting the prophet Muhammad is expected to enter a guilty plea.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 3:33am EST
Digital Trends - An image has surfaced of what may well be the inside rear shell of the iPad 3. While it may not sound like the most exciting news of the year, if the shell is genuine then it gives some clues as to how the next version of Appleâs tablet will compare with the current device.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:35am EST
AP - Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's second biggest personal computer maker, said Thursday that quarterly profit grew by more than half but warned hard drive costs would remain high amid a global shortage.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:10am EST
Time.com - Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:10am EST
Time.com - Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:21am EST
Reuters - A new crop of companies entering the U.S. public markets, including such high-profile offerings as Facebook, are turning the clock back on the way U.S. corporations are run.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:31pm EST
Digital Trends - As reported by Kotaku earlier today, Sony is ditching plans to allow new Vita owners to download PSP titles that they currently own on UMD disc. Sony rolled out this program in Japan at launch during December 2011 and all Japanese owners can register their UMD titles on the Vita by paying a fee based on the value of the game, thus Japanese owners can avoid having to repurchase the titles at full cost on the PlayStation Vita digital download store. New PlayStation Vita owners in North America on February 22 will have to keep the PSP in order to access old titles or repurchase older games at full price to utilize the software on the newer handheld system.Â
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:27pm EST
Digital Trends - Many parents may spend a good deal of time glued to the screen of their smartphones fiddling about with all manner of apps, but when it comes to getting a handle on the gadgets they buy for their children, many have no idea how to use them.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:10pm EST
Reuters - Yahoo Sports remained the most popular U.S. online sports site in January, but the most eye-catching news was ESPN.com falling to third place behind FoxSports.com.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:32pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to check your data usage on your Android 4.0 phone. Android …
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:27pm EST
Yahoo! News - When NASA astronaut Dan Burbank left Earth for the International Space Station as part of Expedition 30 last November, he took along some knitting needles, but not for making a space sweater. The mission's commander brought them to make a point â …
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:19pm EST
Mashable - Fans of The Bachelor are all too familiar with this season's over-the-top contestant Courtney, who makes snide comments at the camera and likes to take off her bikini top.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:21pm EST
Digital Trends - The world of patent licensing often seems like a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, but every so often the industry stumbles into a new tunnel â or, at least, one that seems new at first glance. Such is the case with Apple, which has asked the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to establish a set of basic principles governing so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing of patented technologies included in wireless communications standards. That sentence may make many consumersâ eyes glaze over, but it boils down to this: Apple wants rules saying that if a company contributes their technology to a standard, they donât get to use that technology to beat up competitors who use that standard.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:53pm EST
AP - A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:50pm EST
AP - Paul McCartney will debut the songs from his new album "Kisses on the Bottom" in a free live streaming performance on iTunes.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:57pm EST
AP - Karaoke lovers typically fall into two categories: Those who enjoy it, and those whose arms have to be twisted to get up and sing in public.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:22pm EST
The Motley Fool - In this period of "exceptional uncertainty" (to quote Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke), where can investors turn for a considered perspective on the current environment? Produced to feed the beast of the 24-hour news cycle, the bulk of financial journalism and commentary today isn't worth the servers it is stored on. One notable exception to that rule is Buttonwood, the financial markets column of The Economist. Philip Coggan is the columnist -- arguably the most influential position in financial journalism (along with the head of Lex at the Financial Times).
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:06pm EST
ContributorNetwork - Some of you might have been wondering: If Google makes the Android operating system and Google makes the Chrome Web browser, why don't Android smartphones and tablets use Chrome? Instead, for awhile now they've just used a generic "browser" app, which requires third-party apps and workarounds to even share pages back and forth with your desktop or laptop Chrome browser.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:06pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | This is shaping up to the be the year streaming video becomes ultra-competitive. Netflix is starting to recover after a near disastrous price hike announcement in 2011, as reported by Forbes, and a recent announcement says Verizon and Redbox will form a streaming video partnership that will be up and running by the end of the year, the Associated Press reported. Now, Amazon is getting ready to jump into the streaming video world in a major way, according to Reuters. Can anyone knock Netflix off its perch?
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:02pm EST
AP - Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted the data online.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:00pm EST
Digital Trends - A local government official has warned users of Chinese microblogging servicesâweibosâin Beijing that they must post under their real names no later than March 16 or be banned from the services. The move comes after the Chinese capital issued requirements late last year that weibos users re-register for micro-blogging services under their real names to enable authorities to more easily monitor and block them if they post material the government finds objectionable.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:56pm EST
AP - Time Warner Inc. got a boost from its movie studio and cable TV networks in the last three months of the year, and the company expects growth to continue in 2012 even with the end of its lucrative Harry Potter franchise.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:28pm EST
Reuters - Sprint Nextel posted a wider quarterly loss because of the higher costs of selling Apple Inc's iPhone and the popular device delivered a smaller-than-expected boost to subscriber numbers, sending the company's shares down 2 percent.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:03pm EST
Yahoo! News - DARPA was on the hunt for the best unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone designs, so it launched the UAVForge competition in late 2011. While helicopter and plane-like designs were expected, a few of the entries were actually rather unique. Take for example …
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:53am EST
Reuters - Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world's No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting to mature.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:48am EST
Yahoo! News - Any time you tweak the vocabulary surrounding a network that millions of people use every day, there is bound to be some confusion. That's just what happened earlier this week when Sony announced it would be renaming PlayStation Network accounts as Sony …
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:49am EST
AP - Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp. to settle a long-running patent dispute.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:44am EST
AP - IPHONE IMPACT: Sprint started selling the iPhone in October, joining Verizon and AT&T. It's an expensive project for a company already losing money.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:30am EST
AP - Sprint dug deep into its pockets in the latest quarter to put iPhones in the hands of its customers. The perennially money-losing company on Wednesday posted its largest loss in three years.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:00am EST
Reuters - AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content officer at its struggling Patch hyperlocal news network.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:30am EST
AP - Nokia Corp. plans to stop assembling cell phones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and will cut another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempts to cushion itself from stiff competition in the smartphone sector.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:00am EST
Digital Trends - Rolling out gradually to Facebook users, the social network is launching a new version of the photo viewer that allows pictures to be displayed at a significantly larger resolution than previous designs. On a typical 15â³ laptop, pictures display as large as 960 pixels wide and 720 pixels tall. After the user clicks on a photo, the new interface launches and covers the entire screen with the photo as well as a white space on the right side. Users can like, share or comment on the photo on the right side of the screen. In addition, Facebook is rotating out advertisements underneath the comments as well as sponsored stories.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:37am EST
Reuters - When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world's biggest Internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it will succeed look slim.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:07pm EST
Digital Trends - Due in part to its popular native email system and effective security measures, Research In Motionâs BlackBerry mobile phones were once the must-have device for those working in business.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:49pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show three great cooking apps for the iPhone. BigOven Epicurious Serving Sizer Take a look …
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:39pm EST
Yahoo! News - Fond of texting while walking? Unless you're extremely nimble, you may have bumped into people, objects, or even stumbled. In extreme cases, you may have even bruised yourself or broken a few things. But if you have an Android device, you can …
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:31pm EST
Reuters - The California State Teachers' Retirement System, the second-largest largest pension fund in the United States, wants Facebook Inc to expand its board of directors and diversify a panel that has no women.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:23pm EST
Reuters - Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock and three other directors will step down as the struggling company ploughs ahead with an internal overhaul, including discussions on dealing with its stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:54pm EST
AP - Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, submitting to the demands of many frustrated shareholders who blame them for contributing to the follies that have dragged down the Internet company's revenue and stock price.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:26pm EST
ContributorNetwork - For many people, gaming is no longer a solitary experience where you buy a game and bring it back home and play it -- not even on Android-powered smartphones and tablets. Because it's not just that people are buying games from the Android Market, or Gameloft's store, or other online marketplaces. They're making friends, playing online, and earning trophies and achievements through gameplay that their friends can then see on their profiles.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:05pm EST
Mashable - The British Cabinet Office has warned businesses in England that the country may not be able to fully accommodate a surge in Internet use during the 2012 Olympics in London this summer.
Businesses have been told that Internet providers may be forced to ration access to the web during certain times of day and service may fall out altogether at other times.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:01pm EST
AP - The first live stream of the Super Bowl drew 2.1 million unique viewers, NBC said Thursday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:58pm EST
AP - The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that its net income rose 12 percent in the final quarter of 2011, as a slimmer movie slate and upbeat theme park results helped the company top earnings forecasts even while revenue gains were less than expected.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:35pm EST
Reuters - Oil field services company Halliburton plans to stop issuing BlackBerry smartphones to employees and switch over to Apple's iPhone, which it said was better suited to its needs, marking another setback for Research In Motion.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:53pm EST
Reuters - Next-generation software for BlackBerry's smartphones is "ready to compete", Research In Motion's new chief executive, Thorsten Heins, told more than 2,000 technical developers on Tuesday, expressing confidence in RIM's long-term future.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:51pm EST
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:50pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Say what you will about the relative merits of Android smartphones vs. the iPhone, but the Android mascot wins against the iPhone's hands-down. This is largely because the iPhone doesn't have a mascot, but that's not the point. The point is that the cute little green robot seen all over Android phone commercials (and depicted in Google branding) can be yours, and can sit on your desk or even do useful things for you. And yes, he comes in more colors than just green.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:50pm EST
AP - CAREER OPPORTUNITY: All those apps being made for smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network are helping the U.S. economy lower its unemployment rate. A study released Tuesday by the technology trade group TechNet estimates apps are responsible for creating about 466,000 U.S. jobs since 2007.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:58pm EST
Digital Trends - CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently described Facebook as embracing âthe hacker way,â which is to say that the company has a sort of freedom and interest in constantly innovating, breaking, and creating without boundaries that limit other enterprise businesses. How much that applies to Facebook in practice has long been up for debate, but the company may be edging closer in that direction in the near future.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:04am EST
Reuters - U.S. social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:43am EST
Reuters - A cat that invaded the famous Anfield turf for three minutes during Liverpool's 0-0 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Monday has become an internet celebrity.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:37am EST
Reuters - British online gaming company 888 Holdings saw its full-year revenue grow 26 percent as the number of customers gambling on its websites grew, and the company said strong current trading continues into the first quarter.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 12:09am EST
AP - Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps — the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:34pm EST
Yahoo! News - The need is compelling: Over 1 billion people in the third world need corrective eyewear but lack access to testing and glasses. The solution is spectacularly innovative: A $2 scope attached to a smartphone tests for vision defects, and a new pair of …
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:26pm EST
Yahoo! News - It's been a rough 12 months for movie rental giant Netflix. The company sharply increased rates from $8 to $15, irking customers, and announced plans to split into two confusing new entities, renaming its traditional DVD-by-mail service Qwikster. Netflix ultimately abandoned its Qwikster …
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:24pm EST
AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:41pm EST
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc is dipping its toes into the physical world as the largest online retailer offers more products in stores that may benefit from hands-on interaction with shoppers.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:32pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to Mike Tomkins of Imaging Resource, digital camera maker Canon is in a bit of a bind. Its high-end Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras are growing in popularity, but compact cameras -- the basic point-and-shoot variety -- are starting to tank except in "emerging markets." Which is code for third-world countries, where most people can't afford SLRs anyway.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:21pm EST
Reuters - A year after network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc unnerved investors with yet another weak quarterly outlook the company looks set to report a stable quarter buoyed in part by improving enterprise demand in the United States.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:04pm EST
AP - A new Internet streaming venture built around Redbox's DVD-rental kiosks adds to a crowded field of online video-viewing services dominated by Netflix.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:22pm EST
The Cutline - The Super Bowl broadcast by NBC on Sunday was watched by 111.3 million people, according to Nielsen estimates, making it the most-watched program in television history for the third year in a row. Approximately 47.8 percent of U.S. homes tuned in for the New York Giants come-from-behind 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots, off [...]
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:06pm EST
AP - You thought you found your one true love online, but now you've been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven't helped. Your friends are tired of your whining.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:57pm EST
Reuters - Combing dating websites for that perfect love match can be very frustrating, and a group of U.S. psychology professors released a report on Monday explaining why there is no substitute for meeting face-to-face.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:00pm EST
Yahoo! News - If all the crazy and awesome innovative designs we've seen lately come to fruition, the future is going to be a pretty interesting place. If melting buildings aren't your thing though, check out this vision of the future proposed by Corning, makers of …
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:55pm EST
Yahoo! News - Unless you've just awoken from a coma or emerged from under a rock, you're probably aware of the rather popular sporting event that was held over the weekend. For those who don't care about the game itself, or the commercials, the halftime …
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:46am EST
AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:04am EST
Reuters - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:44am EST
Reuters - Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:34am EST
AP - Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy, media reported Monday.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:36am EST
Reuters - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp expects to post much lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, underscoring analyst views that it will face another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:40pm EST
ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 6:50pm EST
Reuters - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that way.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 3:28pm EST
Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 6:03am EST
Reuters - Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:53pm EST
AP - Deion Sanders said he wasn't worried. Joe Montana went in with his game face on and Jordin Sparks just hoped sand did not end up in her eyes.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:12pm EST
ContributorNetwork - Back when home video games were still new, every new console's controller was an experiment. And before people settled on things like the Atari 2600's joystick and the Nintendo Entertainment System's gamepad, which influenced everything that came after them, they tried out some ... unusual form factors. Like the Fairchild Channel F's hybrid paddle-joystick, or the Mattel Intellivision's disc-and-touchpad arrangement.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:12am EST
AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 9:18am EST
AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:04am EST
AP - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:58pm EST
Reuters - Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:28pm EST
AP - Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:22pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | They may not be the power company, but you won't find too many threats to their dominance. All three are not only at the top of their game, they have few, if any, competitors. And the law helps keep newbies out of the market.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:15pm EST
Yahoo! News - The new mandatory Facebook Timeline is a surprisingly controversial feature. You either love it, or you hate it. And according to a new poll, it appears that almost all of you hate it. Overall, only 20% of those surveyed said they liked …
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:08pm EST
Yahoo! News - While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. …
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:30pm EST
Reuters - The Super Bowl is still two days away but some advertisers already are looking like winners as their yet-to-be-aired commercials score millions of hits online and rack up pre-game buzz.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:28pm EST
ContributorNetwork - States-side fans of video game consoles, from the first Nintendo Entertainment System to its modern successor the Wii, know what it's like for a game that looks awesome to only come out in Japan.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:28pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Facebook IPO is likely going to result in the social media giant ending up with a market value in the $75 to $100 billion range, according to MSNBC.com.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:04pm EST
AP - Saboteurs have hacked into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:00pm EST
The Cutline - More than 111 million people are expected to watch the Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots on Sundayâroughly a third of the U.S. population and the largest television audience in television history. And virtually all of those viewers will be watching it live. "Live sports is the most DVR-proof programming [...]
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:28pm EST
Reuters - Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording on Friday of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:58pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Tech companies across the United States have been releasing their Q1 2012 financial reports, or their summaries of how well they did in the last few months. Apple, with its mountains of cash and nearly-vertical iPad sales growth (as illustrated in this graph by Horace Dediu), continues to dominate most of the hardware markets that it participates in ... and to have outsized profits per smartphone sold, as illustrated in this graph by Benedict Evans.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:21pm EST
Yahoo! News - Whether you agree with the tactics of hacker group Anonymous or not, you have to admit they have a good sense of irony. Earlier today, the group hacked an FBI conference call about ... the threat posed by Anonymous. News of the hack …
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:18pm EST
Yahoo! News - Google's intrusive new privacy policy has raised quite a few eyebrows here in the United States, but it's making even more waves in the EU. There, a joint regulatory commission of all 27 European nations has called for the web …
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:56pm EST
AP - They trade jokes, chuckle and talk shop about a hacker plot called "Project Mayhem."
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:50pm EST
Reuters - Welcome to the airport terminal of the future.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:24pm EST
Reuters - Siemens AG is on the look out for a new chief executive for its mobile phone network equipment joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Siemens supervisory board member Sibylle Wankel told reporters on Friday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 11:53am EST
AP - The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 11:50am EST
Reuters - Apple Inc said it was cleared to resume selling older models of its iPhone and 3G-based iPads via its German online store on Friday, after the suspension of an injunction won by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc in December.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 11:16am EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Amazon.com is sort of like the Wal-Mart of the Internet. It doesn't just sell books anymore; nowadays, it sells everything from riding lawn mowers to bulk toilet paper. And its Kindle Fire tablet has become strong competition for Apple's iPad, selling (possibly) millions of units compared to hundreds of thousands for most of its Android competitors.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:41am EST
Reuters - Sprint Nextel , like its bigger rivals, is expected to report a steep decline in fourth-quarter profit margins due to its launch of the costly Apple Inc iPhone.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:16am EST
AP - Panasonic on Friday nearly doubled its projected net loss for the fiscal year to a record 780 billion yen ($10.2 billion) amid weak TV and mobile phone sales and ongoing restructuring costs after acquiring smaller Sanyo Electronics Co.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:57am EST
Reuters - A New Zealand court refused an appeal by the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com to be freed on bail, Friday, agreeing with prosecutors there was a risk he would attempt to flee before an extradition hearing.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:57am EST
Reuters - A New Zealand court refused an appeal by the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com to be freed on bail, Friday, agreeing with prosecutors there was a risk he would attempt to flee before an extradition hearing.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:19am EST
Reuters - It's the year's hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:40am EST
AP - The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:40am EST
AP - The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:23pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to find out what apps are running on your Android 4.0 …
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:23pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to find out what apps are running on your Android 4.0 …
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:14pm EST
Yahoo! News - A few days ago, NASA published an incredibly detailed photo, dubbed Blue Marble, of the Earth's western hemisphere. Since then, the photo has generated over 3.1 million views on Flickr, making it one of the all-time most-viewed images on the photo-sharing site. So …
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 7:50pm EST
Reuters - Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in an acknowledgement of malware's growing threat to its increasingly popular Android mobile software.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 7:39pm EST
AP - With members of Congress convinced their political survival depends on their image, the House is wasting no time in considering a Senate-passed bill that would ban insider trading by lawmakers and thousands of executive branch officials. Stock trades would have to be posted online within 30 days.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:21pm EST
Reuters - A Wisconsin woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to profit from Facebook's much-anticipated plans to go public by selling fake stock in the social media giant, a criminal complaint showed on Thursday.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:45pm EST
AP - Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing lifted the stocks of many Internet companies, including recent laggards Zynga and Groupon. But analysts said the halo effect may fade, because some companies basking in Facebook's glow just aren't as financially sound as the world's largest social network.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:11pm EST
AP - When Facebook goes public in a few months, will its stock appear on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq? Depends what its billionaire founder prefers for a backdrop — a trading floor on Wall Street or towering video screens in Times Square.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:38pm EST
AP - AOL and the Huffington Post are launching a live video network that aims to combine broadcast news with social media.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:15pm EST
Reuters - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:03pm EST
Reuters - Three days before Super Bowl XLVI, U.S. prosecutors said they seized 16 websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events over the Internet, and charged a Michigan man with running nine of those websites.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:31pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Google recently unveiled its new Android design guidelines, which are meant to help people develop apps for its open-source smartphone and tablet operating system. The guidelines work in tandem with Android Ice Cream Sandwich's visual overhaul, which was designed to "enchant" smartphone and tablet users in a way that Android's previous, bare-bones iterations, did not.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:22pm EST
Yahoo! News - Could sharing someone else's content on social media site Twitter get you jail time? Not if you live in the United States. But in democratic South Korea, a 24-year-old faces up to seven years in prison for retweeting content from @uriminzok, the …
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:14pm EST
Reuters - As Facebook hurtles toward one of the largest initial public offerings in U.S. history, its honeymoon with investors may already be over.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:13pm EST
Reuters - Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 million of them. Of the rest, nearly 60 percent live in Asia and hooking them is going to be a daunting challenge.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:43pm EST
Yahoo! News - In the months following long-time Apple CEO Steve Jobs's untimely death, we've seen him resurrected in many forms. He's already been brought back in plastic and bronze, but we never thought we'd see him reborn as an Android supporter. Leave it to a Taiwanese tablet …
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:01pm EST
ContributorNetwork - You can buy it in India if you're a student, that is. According to Jamie Yap of ZDNet Asia, the Aakash tablet is priced at 2,200 rupees, or 45 U.S. dollars, while students pay a special subsidized price thanks to a government contract. 25,000 students have already requested one from the University of Mumbai, and more than 1.4 million people have ordered the tablet so far, with three new factories being set up to meet the demand.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:06am EST
AP - Federal prosecutors say a former Baltimore man has been arrested in the U.S. after fleeing to Pakistan before he was indicted on a software copyright infringement charge.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:29am EST
AP - Facebook is baring its business soul.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:58am EST
Reuters - Youku.com, China's largest online video company, filed a lawsuit against its No.1 rival, Tudou Holdings Ltd, saying it incurred losses because of claims by Tudou that Youku had misused copyrighted material, the government-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:30am EST
AP - Facebook's much-hyped initial public offering promises to be an exciting spectacle when the social media giant goes public this spring. But should you update your status to "shareholder"?
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:15am EST
Reuters - Sony Corp on Thursday kept its annual LCD TV sales forecast unchanged but cut its forecasts for digital camera and PlayStation 3 hardware sales.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:49pm EST
Reuters - He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company's new product.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:44pm EST
Reuters - Qualcomm Inc's quarterly profit easily beat Wall Street forecasts and the wireless chip leader raised its full-year financial targets due to growing demand for smartphones such as Apple Inc's popular iPhone.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:40pm EST
AP - Facebook is friending Wall Street: The Internet social network is going public in a stock offering that could value it at up to $100 billion, eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:11pm EST
AP - Microsoft Corp. slammed search rival Google Inc. with full-page newspaper ads Wednesday, saying that recent changes at Google that allow it to internally merge the data it collects on user activity across services such as YouTube and Gmail are meant to allow advertisers to better target customers.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:01pm EST
AP - In Facebook's regulatory filing Wednesday for an initial public offering of stock, CEO Mark Zuckerberg included a letter to potential investors about the company's thinking. He described it as a social mission to make the world more open and connected. He also discussed Facebook's approach to culture and management:
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:58pm EST
AP - FB? That's the best they could do?
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:47pm EST
Reuters - Electronic Arts' told investors on Wednesday that its highly anticipated "Star Wars" game was off to a strong start and dismissed reports that players were leaving the new Internet game in droves, and its shares rose 6 percent after the market closed.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:35pm EST
Yahoo! News - It's official: Facebook, the world's most famous internet company, is about to go public. In a move expected to net the social networking giant a cool $5 billion, Facebook shares will be available for purchase this May under the ticker symbol FB. …
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:35pm EST
Yahoo! News - It's official: Facebook, the world's most famous internet company, is about to go public. In a move expected to net the social networking giant a cool $5 billion, Facebook shares will be available for purchase this May under the ticker symbol FB. …
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:32pm EST
Reuters - Anti-virus software maker AVG Technologies NV priced its initial public offering at $16 per share, at the low end of the expected range, according to a market source.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:27pm EST
AP - GOING PUBLIC: Facebook files paperwork for its much-anticipated initial public offering of stock. It hopes to raise $5 billion, the most ever for an Internet IPO.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:26pm EST
Yahoo! News - If Barcelona-based designer Martin Azua's design catches on, the camping tents of the future could fit in your pocket. His "Basic House" concept is a single-person pop-up shelter made from a metalized polyester fabric that sets itself up, but contains no …
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:55pm EST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to use the new notification features of your Android 4.0 phone. …
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:00pm EST
Reuters - Mexico's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it was still in the process of notifying the companies of its decision on broadcaster Televisa's proposed purchase of half of cell phone company Iusacell.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:49pm EST
Reuters - International Business Machines is sounding out plans to cut thousands of jobs in Germany and other countries to reduce costs and raise earnings, a German union official said.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:41pm EST
Reuters - Nokia's major revamp, which includes a deal to start using Microsoft Corp software for its smartphones, will impact earnings of the Finnish handset maker through most of this year, Chairman Jorma Ollila said on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:40pm EST
Reuters - Sony Corp named Kazuo Hirai as chief executive, succeeding Howard Stringer at the helm of the iconic gadget maker as it struggles with persistent losses and stalled efforts to re-energize its once-dominant brand.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:38pm EST
AP - Lawyers for Facebook are looking for $84,000 in legal fees from a New York man after a judge ruled he caused delays in his lawsuit seeking part ownership in the social networking site.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:01pm EST
Reuters - A city panel in the U.S. capital voted on Wednesday to repeal a first-in-the-nation Internet gambling law for Washington, D.C., a spokeswoman said.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:56pm EST
ContributorNetwork - They've got the brand names of popular black and white e-readers. But the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet are, as the latter's name implies, basically miniature tablets like the iPad. (The Nook Color is also; it's a cheaper version of the Nook Tablet.)
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:57pm EST
Reuters - Planned changes to Google Inc's privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:53pm EST
Reuters - A Senate antitrust panel is planning a hearing to discuss Verizon Wireless's multibillion dollar deals to buy wireless airwaves from cable operators and let them resell its mobile service, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:01pm EST
AP - A group of Internet hackers said Wednesday it took down the website of the Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest state-run bank. It's the third such attack against financial institutions in a week.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:55am EST
Yahoo! News - The working conditions at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn are notorious here in the U.S., but do Chinese youth have a different opinion of the embattled electronics giant? Possibly: Foxconn is hiring, and Chinese youth are literally lining up around the block to …
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:27am EST
Yahoo! News - Close your eyes, and try to imagine yourself beyond your 80th birthday. Do you still see yourself spending a couple of hours each day gaming? That's what 100-year-old Kathleen Connell does, and she says it's the reason why she doesn't "feel …
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:05am EST
AP - Facebook, the social network that changed "friend" from a noun to a verb, is expected to file as early as Wednesday to sell stock on the open market. Its debut is likely to be the most talked-about initial public offering since Google in 2004.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 9:37am EST
AP - Ukrainian authorities have shut down a popular file-sharing website saying it violates copyright laws, officials said Wednesday.
