Executive Leaves After iPhone Antenna Troubles
Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of hardware for the company's flagship iPhone, has left the company in the wake of widely reported problems with the antenna of the recently introduced ...
HP after Hurd: May the CEO guessing game begin
The abrupt resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd will spark a lot of speculation about his successor. Who will run HP next? — As analyzed earlier, Hurd stepped down over a sexual harassment claim. A few...
It's Modern Trade: Web Users Get as Much as They Give
If you surf the web, congratulations! You are part of the information economy. Data gleaned from your communications and transactions grease the gears of modern commerce. Not everyone is celebratin...
Needles in a Haystack
A 20-something named Austin Heap has found the perfect disguise for dissidents in their cyberwar against the world's dictators. — Jeremy and Claire Weiss for Newsweek — Austin Heap in San Francisc...
Inside the Numbers: How Demand Media Will Pitch a Billion Dollar IPO
Demand Media is a money-losing company. How will it convince Wall Street to value it at a billion dollars or more? — By directing investors' attention to a set of numbers which say it's a very prof...
Saudi reaches deal on BlackBerry, avoiding ban
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia and the makers of the BlackBerry have reached a preliminary deal on granting access to users' data that will avert a ban on the phone's messenger service in the kin...
Don't bank on KMart's $150 Augen tablet getting Android Market access
When KMart started advertising that the Augen GenTouch78 tablet which the store was selling for $150 would have access to the Android Market, I was skeptical. Google may not review every app in the ...
Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents
During my tech days, I co-authored four software patents. Each cost my startup about $15,000—which seemed like a fortune in those days. I didn't really expect these to give me any advantage; after a...
Big Macs on campus
In five years, Apple has switched places with Dell as the student laptop of choice — Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) dropped nearly 2.5% in the opening hour of trading Wednesday thanks in part to a downg...
H.P. Ousts Chief for Hiding Payments to Friend
Mark V. Hurd, who turned Hewlett-Packard into the world's largest technology company on the back of fierce fiscal discipline, has been ousted from his post for the lowliest of corporate offenses — fud...
Google Buys Slide to Get Facebook Data
Google August 6 agreed to acquire social application provider Slide, ostensibly to challenge Facebook's social network hegemony. Even with Zynga and Slide, Google has its work cut out. — Google Aug...
A simple plan to ruin your boss: plant child porn on his PC
A disgruntled maintenance worker at a UK secondary school has been accused of planting child pornography on his boss' computer in order to have his boss fired and to ruin the man's life. — The perpe...
First Look at New HTC/Verizon World Phone
AndroidGuys.com has just received exclusive photos of a new HTC Android phone that will not be released by Verizon til 2011. The Verizon-branded prototype also included a Vodaphone SIM card, indicati...
Mobile ads will be as annoying as TV ads
It was only a matter of time before smartphones started to get irritating, and we mean more irritating than the novelty alarm which wakes you up before the morning slog to work. TV ad irritating, Go ...