Amazon Kindle Fire review
It seems like ages since Amazon introduced us to the $199 Fire at a hectic New York City event, but in truth that was only about six weeks ago. Maybe our perception of time is warped because we've be...
At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined. — It's a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the ...
Microsoft's Search Efforts Look Increasingly Futile As Google Gains Share For Second Month In A Row
The latest ComScore search numbers just came out, and Google continues to claw back market share. — Here's where the big search engines stood at the end of October, compared with September:
BlackBerry London: is this the first RIM phone with the BBX OS?
We've just gotten a look at what might be the first-ever photo of the next iteration of BlackBerry devices (based on the upcoming BBX operating system and its QNX roots), and we wanted to share.
Developers' Interest Growing in Windows Phone, Waning in BlackBerry
Mobile developers are very interested in Amazon's new Kindle Fire, intrigued by Windows Phone and disenchanted with the BlackBerry. — Those are some of the takeaways from the latest in a series of s...
Exclusive: Lenovo to release a 10.1-inch Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with Tegra 3 by year's end
You wouldn't think a giant like Lenovo would stop at just three (or four) Android tablets now, would you? In fact, a little birdie has informed us that said Chinese company will release …
Processing $11 Million A Day, Jack Dorsey Says: “We Don't Want To Make Square All About Taxi Cabs”
Jack Dorsey's mobile payments startup Square is now processing $11 million a day in mobile payments, it was revealed today at the Techonomy conference in Tucson, Arizona.
YouTube tests redesign highlighting Google+ videos, subscriptions & more
This morning, we received a tip pointing out some serious user interface redesigns on YouTube. Don't rush off to take a peek just yet, though — the changes haven't been rolled out to everyone.
The Death Of The Spec
Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they've sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which...
HTC to unveil quad-core tablet PC at MWC, says paper
HTC is likely to unveil a new Android-based tablet PC running on a quad-core CPU from Nvidia along with two new Android smartphones in February at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012, according to a Chin...
Arista Networks Founders Aim to Alter How Computers Connect
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — If nothing else, Arista Networks proves that two people can make more than $1 billion each building the Internet and still be worried about its reliability. — David Cheriton, a...
MacBook Air now 28% of Apple's notebook shipments
Apple's MacBook Air models now make up 28 percent of the company's notebook shipments, up from just 8 percent in the first half of the year. — Research by Morgan Stanley involving NPD figures report...
Intel Peaks on PC Performance With New Six-core Chip
Intel on Monday announced what it called its fastest chip to date for PCs, the six-core Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor, which is based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture and designed for u...
HOW MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETS USE TWITTER
CONTENT ANALYSIS SHOWS AN EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP — For nearly every news organization, Twitter has become a regular part of the daily news outreach. But there are questions about how those organizat...
Young Workers Like Facebook, Apple and Google
Young professionals want to work for Google, Apple and Facebook. Investment banks? Not so much. — About one in five young workers in the U.S. picked Google Inc. as a most desirable place to work a...
AMD introduces world's first 16-core PC microprocessor
In a first for the PC industry, Advanced Micro Devices introduced a microprocessor today with 16 cores, or computing brains, on a single chip. — Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD is the primary competitor...
Schools grab .xxx sites to protect names from porn
(AP) ST. LOUIS - Schools nationwide, including The University of Missouri and Washington University, are snapping up .xxx domain names to avoid links of their names to porn sites. — The new address ...
Cray to Take On Supercomputer After IBM's Exit
A University of Illinois research center has awarded a contract valued at more than $188 million to Cray Inc. to build one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, an effort that International Bus...
The making of the Xbox: How Microsoft unleashed a video game revolution (part 1)
Editor's note: This story is the first of two articles on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Microsoft's Xbox video game console, which debuted Nov. 15, 2001. The narrative is based on recent inte...