Microsoft reportedly considers launching own-brand tablet PC
Microsoft is reportedly considering to launch an own-brand tablet PC that features Windows 8 by the end of 2012 with cooperation from Texas Instruments and Taiwan-based OEMs/ODMs, according to sources...
“It Just Works.”
Amid all the big announcements at this year's WWDC keynote, there was an undercurrent that was subtle, but important. — “It just works.” Steve Jobs kept saying this over and over again on stage. W...
Jobs To Cupertino: We Want A Spaceship-Shaped, 12K Capacity Building As Our New Apple Campus
After having a banner WWDC start yesterday, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs humbly presented his idea for a new Apple campus at the Cupertino City Council today.
All four Lodsys patents under invalidation attack in federal court
I have news concerning Lodsys because a Michigan company named ForeSee Results Inc. has filed a declaratory judgment suit against Lodsys's four patents with the U.S. District Court for the Northern Di...
Samsung Declines Comment On Nokia Bid Speculation
HELSINKI (Dow Jones)—Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE) Wednesday declined to comment on market speculation that it could be preparing a bid for ailing Finland-based handset maker Nokia Corp. (NOK). ...
Facebook to Be Probed in EU for Facial Recognition in Photos
Facebook Inc. will be probed by European Union data-protection regulators over a feature that suggests people's names to tag in pictures without their permission. — A group of privacy watchdogs draw...
A new stable release of Chrome: safer and snazzier
Today's new stable release of Chrome brings improvements in security, privacy, and graphics to Chrome's 160 million users. — Chrome is now more secure, thanks to enhancements to our Safe Browsing te...
iCloud's real purpose: kill Windows
Apple's announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the persp...
Thiel: Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble?
There has been lots of chatter about a technology bubble in Silicon Valley. LinkedIn's initial public offering, Groupon's upcoming I.P.O. and bloated start-up investments and valuations are bringing ...
Vidyo launches low-cost HD video chat for up to 20 people at once
Vidyo is seeking to disrupt the market for “telepresence” systems that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It will do so with the launch of Vidyo Panorama, a video conferencing system that del...
CloudFlare: A website security product accidentally makes sites 60% faster
I remember sitting in the front row of TechCrunch: Disrupt when CloudFlare was giving its pitch. At the time I commented to some other people around about how the service was answering a lot of quest...
Three Screens: Celebrating Microsoft'S Cohesive New User Experience Strategy
Three different products, one cohesive user experience: Suddenly, Microsoft has a strategy that makes sense. — In March 2010, I met with several members of the Windows Phone team in Redmond to discu...
Apple now world's largest semiconductor buyer
Apple is the easily outstripping all other hardware makers in semiconductor spending, a new report from IHS iSuppli has found. — According to the research firm, Apple spent $17.5 billion on semicond...
Microsoft details Windows Phone Mango SkyDrive improvements
Microsoft has detailed its Windows Phone Mango improvements for SkyDrive on Tuesday. — The software giant describes SkyDrive and Windows Phone Mango as the “deepest connection to cloud storage avail...
Microsoft acquires Prodiance to integrate risk-management into future Office releases
Microsoft announced on June 7 its acquisition for an undisclosed amount of enterprise risk management (ERM) software vendor Prodiance. — Microsoft bought Prodiance “to bring more compliance function...
Know when your bus is late with live transit updates in Google Maps
(Cross-posted on the Lat Long Blog and Mobile Blog) — Often when I'm taking public transit, I arrive at my stop on time only to anxiously check my watch and look down the street for my bus, which is...
Flash fire hits Intel plant in Arizona
A fire broke out today at an Intel chip plant in Arizona, injuring seven people. However, the chipmaker said it would have no impact on production. — The fire was in a “support building” next to an...
Zynga Said to Favor ‘Low-Float’ IPO Like LinkedIn
Zynga Inc. plans to sell a small number of shares in its initial public offering, adopting a strategy used by LinkedIn Corp. to maintain control of the company while raising money to expand, according...
Glassboard: Rock Star Team Regroups From RSS-Land to Tackle Private Mobile Content Sharing
Private mobile content sharing for groups is something no one has really nailed yet, but feels like it could be a very big deal. Rising from the tragic ashes of the consumer RSS reader market …