Why Samsung Is The Next Apple
For most of the ten years I've been coming to CES, every presentation, every booth, has had one goal: to create an ecosystem in order to encourage consumer to lock in. Year after year, presentation a...
Sharing a search story
I've been reading a lot of the coverage of the Search plus Your World launch and I wanted to share my story and then clarify something. — I love to stay up until early in the morning playing Werewol...
Apple announces special event in New York on Jan. 19
Apple on Wednesday sent out an invitation to The Loop and other media outlets to attend a special event being held in New York City next week. — Apple says the event will be about an education annou...
Exclusive: Dell plots late-2012 consumer tablet launch
(Reuters) - Dell Inc intends to launch its first consumer tablet computer in late 2012, marking its entry into a hotly contested and increasingly crowded arena that has already claimed arch-foe Hewlet...
Game streaming service OnLive to be preloaded on all Google TVs
It's going to get a lot easier to play cloud-based games on your television soon. Game streaming service OnLive announced today that its viewing service will be preloaded on the Google TV service.
Apple's iPad app of the year, Snapseed, coming to Mac and Android tablets
Photography software developer Nik Software will soon release its popular Snapseed photo-editing application for Mac and select Android tablets. — Snapseed, originally released for iPhone and iPad …
Motorola CEO: We're Going to Release Fewer Phones This Year
While the trend has been for Android device makers to throw new models off the assembly line at a dizzying pace, at least one phone manufacturer is stepping off the treadmill. — Motorola CEO Sanjay ...
Social Entertainment Network GetGlue Raises $12 Million In New Financing
Social entertainment network GetGlue has just raised a significant round of $12 million in new financing, led by new investor Rho Ventures. The company's existing investors, TimeWarner, RRE Ventures ...
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing
General-purpose computers are astounding. They're so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they're for, how to accommodate them, and how to cope with them. Thi...
Sony's Kaz Hirai: no PlayStation 4 at E3
It looks like you can officially put any hopes of a PlayStation 4 announcement at E3 to rest. In a roundtable with reporters at CES, Sony's Kaz Hirai responded to a question about recent comments att...
Start-Up Speed
It's been a few years since Google was a small company - but at the beginning of 2011, we saw that in order to support the growth of our business, Google would need to become even bigger, so we set ou...
Dutch ISPs Ordered To Block The Pirate Bay
In 2010, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN went to court to try and force Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, to implement a DNS and IP address block of The Pirate Bay. — To help avoid a damaging...
Apple May work with HTC to Fight off New Kodak Lawsuit
In February 2010 Eastman Kodak Company sued Apple claiming that they were infringing their patents related to digital cameras and certain computer processes. In April of 2010 Apple counter sued by cl...
Google TV product manager Rishi Chandra: ‘Android is going to be a successful operating system on TVs’
Google's playing CES 2012 pretty low-key, even as Google TV products from major manufacturers like Sony, Vizio, LG, and Samsung have become one of the major stories of the show.
CES: GPU candidates for Apple's next iPad, iPhone are 20 times more powerful
Imagination Technologies announced on Tuesday that its next-generation PowerVR Series6 GPU core family, which could find their way into Apple's future iPhones and iPads, will offer 20 times more perfo...
Adobe Reader updates to support e-signatures inside PDFs
Popular PDF viewing application Adobe Reader just got infinitely more functional for business users, with one of its most significant feature updates in years. — Adobe has released a new version of ...
Indignant workers threaten suicide at Foxconn park in Wuhan
About 300 Foxconn employees threatened to kill themselves on Jan. 2 after being denied compensation they were promised by the company. (Internet Photo) — According to the Chinese anti-government we...
Microsoft streamlines Barnes&Noble case by withdrawing one patent and seven claims from four remaining patents
Approximately four weeks ahead of the ITC hearing on Microsoft's complaint against Barnes & Noble, the scope of the investigation has been narrowed.
Comcast — Owner Of NBC Universal — Admits That DNS Redirects Are Incompatible With DNSSEC
Owner Of NBC Universal — Admits That DNS Redirects Are Incompatible With DNSSEC — Well, well, well. Here's something interesting. Comcast, who owns NBC Universal (one of the main forces behind SOPA...