Sony chief Stringer slips plans for 8MP iPhone 5 camera
Sony chief Sir Howard Stringer may have unintentionally given away plans for an eight-megapixel camera in the iPhone 5. During an interview with the WSJ's Walt Mossberg, he claimed that the company's...
Facebook Terminated Corporate Development Employee Over Insider Trading Scandal
Facebook corporate development manager Michael Brown (pictured left in happier days) recently and abruptly left Facebook, and the company then hired a senior Google employee to replace him.
BlackBerry Touch (Monaco / Monza) hands-on!
Part of RIM's upcoming 2011 BlackBerry lineup we leaked in January contained the company's latest evolution of a full touchscreen device, the BlackBerry Monaco / Monza. Both names are codenames that ...
April Fools 2011: The Big List
Yes, folks, that's right. That special, special time of year is upon us. It's April Fools 2011! We take April Fools pretty seriously around here, so we'll be constantly updating this post with the ...
Patent Shows that Apple is Bringing “Spaces” to the iPad
In an Apple Discussions forum on Spaces for iPad, Robb Manning stating back in 2010 that having “the ability to touch one button and switch spaces to where I have safari up to do some research would b...
Google's Eric Schmidt beats Apple's Steve Jobs in employee approval ratings
Even as Eric Schmidt steps down as chief executive at Google on Monday, he can leave with the satisfaction that his employee approval rating is at an all-time high. There's an art to quitting when yo...
What to expect from Gosling at Google
Google has lots of Java projects in the works, but the search giant and Java's creator don't always see eye to eye — When James Gosling resigned from his position at Oracle last April, it wasn't exa...
Sony Online to shut doors on Bellevue game studio
Sony Online Entertainment is closing down game studios in Bellevue, Denver and Tucson, Arizona, a move which will eliminate 205 jobs. The company also said that it would discontinue development on “T...
New Book on Google Shows Gaffes in China
When Google opened for business in China in 2006, Eric E. Schmidt, its chief executive, said, “Google has 5,000 years of patience in China.” But its divorce from the country just four years later was...
Bessemer Venture Partners Closes $1.6 Billion Fund
These days, owning a slice of Facebook or Groupon — two of the most popular and valuable companies on the Web — is worth at least some bragging rights in Silicon Valley. — But at least one firm has ...
Google foe won't take “no” on Buzz cash
(Reuters) - An Internet privacy group that prodded U.S. regulators to scrutinize Google Inc is miffed about getting cut out of a class action settlement over the search behemoth's Buzz social network....
Acer Sets Sights on Apple, HTC After Lanci Chase of HP Stumbles
Gianfranco Lanci tried to make Acer Inc. the world's largest laptop maker by outselling Hewlett- Packard Co. The board says he should have set his sights on Apple Inc. and HTC Corp. instead.