HP to Keep PC Division
Continued combination of HP and its Personal Systems Group expected to deliver greater customer and shareholder value — HP today announced that it has completed its evaluation of strategic alternati...
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What's Really Next for Apple in Television
“I've finally cracked it!” Steven P. Jobs, co-founder of Apple, told his biographer, Walter Isaacson. — Although Mr. Jobs was referring to Apple's plans to build a full-fledged television, he was n...
Windows Phone Apollo coming ‘middle of next year,’ says Nokia VP
A top Nokia exec just confirmed the much-rumored schedule for the next Windows Phone update, codenamed Apollo. Michael Halbherr, Executive VP for Location and Commerce, told us that it'll launch in m...
Google+ is now available with Google Apps
Google Apps fans, today we're ready to add you to our circles. Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in the real world, and now Google+ is available to people who use Google Apps at coll...
Yikes! Motorola Shipped Just 100,000 Xoom Tablets Last Quarter
Motorola Mobility just announced its Q3 earnings, where it gave shipment numbers for its mobile devices. — Most notably, it only shipped 100,000 Xoom tablets during the quarter. (That's shipped not...
Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
The announcement that Nexus One users won't be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google's support of their devices. I look at it a little differently...
Chinese Military Suspected in Hacker Attacks on U.S. Satellites
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Computer hackers, possibly from the Chinese military, interfered with two U.S. government satellites four times in 2007 and 2008 through a ground station in Norway, according to ...
What Netflix effect? Redbox will raise rates instead
Redbox was expected to be one of the big beneficiaries of Netflix's most recent price change. But the effect of that change wasn't entirely apparent in Redbox's numbers, as parent Coinstar reported r...
The truth about Steve Jobs' number plate
The stories about the complete lack of a number plate on Steve Job's car are many and varied. But we can finally reveal the truth. — iTWire had the good fortune this morning to spend an hour with J...
U.S. Senator Wants Details on How MasterCard, Visa Use Customer Data
The chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee asked top executives of Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. to detail how the companies collect and use information about customers, following a Wall Street Jou...
Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac
The voice of Windows in the enterprise discovers that Mac users are more productive — Click to enlarge. — That 41% of enterprises won't let Apple (AAPL) PCs anywhere near their computing services ...
A Perfect Storm for Acqihires
Back in 2005 PG wrote a prophetic (or obvious) essay titled Hiring is Obsolete. The name says it all, but the theme revolves around the following quote: … Google pulled back the covers on their 2011 ...
I Wouldn't Touch Groupon's Stock At The IPO Price With A 50-Foot Pole
Groupon management is out on its IPO roadshow, meeting privately with dozens of big institutional investors. — In a couple of weeks, at the end of the roadshow, Groupon's underwriters will take orde...
Storify Update Feels Like a Cleaner Social News Experience
Today Storify launched its new editor interface, featuring slicker, easier-to-use tools for fast content curation. — The new foundation flip-flops the search and editor sides of the interface, and p...
Logitech Revue on sale promising ‘new & improved’ Google TV with Android 3.1, Market (Update: Logitech responds)
Well, well, what do we have here? These Logitech Revue boxes just hit the sales floor of a major electronics retailer, prominently sporting “New & Improved: Google TV with Android 3.1 and Android Mar...
The Seedy, Spammy Past of Airbnb's Co-Founder
The hot vacation rental service Airbnb has been insisting its recent scandals have all been innocent mistakes: The time it spammed Craigslist, its dearth of safety protections, the cover-up it attempt...
The future is amazing, and Microsoft has video to prove it
This might be as close as we're going to get to a time machine. Unless they're working on that, too. — Microsoft this morning is premiering a new video that shows how the company believes technolog...
Sprint: Adding iPhones Actually Lightens Our Load
Is the iPhone more data efficient than its Android rivals? Sprint CEO Dan Hesse says it is. — During an earnings call Wednesday, Hesse claimed iPhones use about half the network resources required ...
Apple Presents a New iPad Gesturing-Based Video Editing Toolbar
On October 25, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals their intentions of providing a future version of the iPad with an advanced gesturing-based...
Sony: We're phasing out feature phones
And buying webOS? — Sony has revealed that it is to phase out feature phones and concentrate on smartphones in the future. The Japanese giant has very recently announced its acquisition of the Eric...
Google+ is now available with Google Apps
Google Apps fans, today we're ready to add you to our circles. Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in the real world, and now Google+ is available to people who use Google Apps at coll...
iPad 3's dense display a challenge for manufacturers
Apple Retina Display. — The 10-inch-class screen on Apple's upcoming iPad 3 will be one of its most remarkable features. But getting to the higher resolutions is a big step, according to a source w...
BlackBerry outage: RIM faces US class action
US and Canadian users seek damages for breach of contract and negligence after three-day service failure — Consumers in the US and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a three-day service outage ...
Possible Signs Of Google Music Store Found In Android Market
To add a little more screencap credence to reports that Google will be launching its own Music Download Store within the next couple of weeks, people who attempt to access music.google.com from their ...
Andreessen Horowitz Raising Huge New $900 Million Fund III
You can't accuse Andreessen Horowitz of spending money too slowly. Their first fund, $300 million, was raised in 2009 and was promptly invested in companies like Skype and Fusion.io. In late 2010 th...
“Batch” May Be The Perfect Mobile Photo Sharing App (No, Seriously)
A few months ago Daily Booth CEO Brian Pokorny told me that most of his team was working on a second product. “What is it?” I asked, “A mobile photo sharing app?” — I was joking, because everyone ...
Hands on with Adobe Carousel for iOS and Mac
Adobe's cross-platform photo management service Carousel, which the company demoed in September at Photoshop World, is now available on iOS devices and the Mac. New apps for both platforms released T...
Google Paid More Than $1.4B for 57 Acquisitions in 2011
Google acquired a whopping 57 companies of various assets through September, according to an SEC filing. With three months left to go in the year, anyone want to guess what else is on the radar? — ...
Dell Latitude ST official: 10 inches of Atom-powered Windows 7
We got a glimpse at the upcoming Dell Latitude ST earlier this week, and now the company has outed the juicy hardware details for all. Like the rest of the Latitude line, the ST tablet is aimed at bu...
Google Declines To Remove Police Brutality Videos, Still Complies With 63% Of Gov't Takedown Requests
What happens when you're the de facto distribution platform for something like Occupy Wall St and other events that run afoul of the police? Well, you end up getting …
Corning's new Lotus Glass promises higher-resolution displays, more
Corning, the developers of Gorilla Glass, announced the launch of a new display material named Lotus Glass for use with LCD and OLED screens today in a press release. The company says Lotus Glass has...
Apple overtakes Nokia in China as iPhone brand, sales surge
Apple's smartphone brand has surged ahead of Nokia among Chinese buyers' preference for their next 3G handset, as more than a third express a preference for iPhone, twice that for Nokia's models.
Samsung gets fast-track appeal against Apple's Galaxy tablet ban
Korean firm seeks to overturn Australian injunction halting sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 and files counterclaim against iPhone 4S — Samsung has won Australian court approval to fast-track its appeal agai...
Livestream Refreshes Video Service: “Viewers Can Rewind While Its Live”
Livestream is unveiling a major upgrade to its live video service today. It won't be fully rolled out until December, but you can see a preview of it here or watch the video below.
Huawei, Chinese Tech Giant, Aids Iran
When Western companies pulled back from Iran after the government's bloody crackdown on its citizens two years ago, a Chinese telecom giant filled the vacuum. — Huawei Technologies Co. now dominates...