Our test finds new iPad hits 116 degrees while running games
The new iPad can run significantly hotter than the earlier iPad2 model when running an action game, Consumer Reports testers have found. — Using a thermal imaging camera, Consumer Reports engineers ...
Exclusive: In a Major Restructuring, Hewlett-Packard to Combine Printer and PC Groups
Hewlett-Packard will announce a sweeping reorganization today that will move its Imaging and Printing Group, once the jewel in the IT giant's crown, under its PC-making Personal Systems Group, sources...
Beats Is Buying MOG Music Subscription Service
Headphone-maker Beats is purchasing music subscription service MOG, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal. But the deal hasn't closed yet. — Beats' majority owner is HTC, the Taiwane...
Microsoft banning Mac, iPad purchases by its sales and marketing group?
Summary: An alleged internal Microsoft e-mail claims the company's marketing and sales organization is about to halt Mac and iPad purchases made with company funds. Smart or pointless?
Louis C. K. and Others Take Stand-Up to the Web
Stand-up comedians of a certain era knew they had arrived when Johnny Carson invited them to a desk-side seat on “The Tonight Show.” A generation later, the gold standard was getting a solo comedy sp...
$1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms
Starting this summer, a convoy of ice breakers and specially-adapted polar ice-rated cable laying ships will begin to lay the first ever trans-Arctic Ocean submarine fiber optic cables. Two of these ...
Eventbrite's New iPad Credit Card Reader Allows Event Organizers To Collect Ticket Payments At The Door
Online ticketing platform Eventbrite is making a big push towards reaching $1 billion in gross ticket sales in 2012; after doubling both the number of events on platform in 2011 …
Tim Cook convinces AT&T to unlock customer's iPhone
We get many emails on Apple's customer support experience. While not always positive, some are excellent examples of Apple going beyond the average company. Today, a reader and trusted tipster reach...
What's Coming In Microsoft Outlook 15
I make no apologies for my refusal to use Microsoft Outlook, but hundreds of millions of business users and consumers rely on this multi-functional solution every day. In fact, it's the center of man...
Microsoft nabs former Yahoo chief scientist to work on big data integration
Summary: Microsoft has added to its technical fellow ranks a former Yahoo chief scientist to help Redmond's big data push. — Microsoft has added a new technical fellow to the ranks who will focus on...
Apple fighting Motorola, Nokia, and RIM over nano-SIM standard
Perhaps to SIM card inventor Giesecke & Devrient's surprise, its nano-SIM proposal introduced late last year didn't fly through the standardization process unopposed: instead, the process for crafting...
For High Tech Companies, Going Public Sucks
When Facebook goes public this year, it will raise at least $5 billion, making it the biggest Internet IPO the world has ever seen. The day it debuts on the stock exchange, Facebook will be worth mor...
Oracle's final damage claim against Google well under $100 million
My, my, my, how the mighty have fallen. In this case, the mighty is the roughly $6 billion Oracle initially sought in its suit against Google. By September of last year that number had dropped to a ...
Google Analytics Launches New Social Reports To Measure Social ROI
Google Analytics has announced new social reports today, designed to help marketers measure the return on investment for social media activities. — “Many social measurement tools focus on social lis...
AMD launches server processor for web-hosting providers
Advanced Micro Devices is launching a new server processor family today that targets companies that serve lots and lots of web pages to users. — The new AMD Opteron 3200 series processor family is a...
Microsoft Invents Projector Eyewear for Xbox & Beyond
It came to light in 2008 that an Apple research team was working on a visual headset for the iPod. In recent months news has surfaced that a next generation super high res micro OLED display is ready...
The Real Reason Google Bought Kevin Rose And Milk: It Needs Designers
Google acquired the Milk team last week — but only about half of it. — Business Insider has learned the other half, which included Milk engineers Amber Reyngoudt and David Peck, were not offered pos...
Video on New iPad Eats Up Monthly Data Plans
Users Find Latest Speedy 4G Link Carries a Big Cost—Churning Through Data Limits in Mere Hours — Brandon Wells got the new iPad last Friday, started wirelessly streaming March Madness games the next...
After 2 Years of Testing, Venmo Opens Payment Service to Public
After more than two years in beta testing, Venmo, a mobile payments service that lets people send money to their friends, is opening its doors to the public on Tuesday. — It is rare for a start-up c...
Symantec to buy mobile app management firm Nukona
Summary: Symantec is to acquire Nukona, a mobile application management software company, in the hope it will bolster the security giant's mobile device scope in the ‘BYOD’ era. — Security giant Sym...
Visualized: new iPad burns 10 degrees hotter than its predecessor
We wouldn't exactly be going out on a limb by suggesting that the new iPad is Apple's hottest tablet to date — even before Tim Cook confirmed as much earlier today. But while Apple has plenty of reas...
Microsoft banning Mac, iPad purchases by its sales and marketing group?
Summary: An alleged internal Microsoft e-mail claims the company's marketing and sales organization is about to halt Mac and iPad purchases made with company funds. Smart or pointless?
new iPad Display Technology Shoot-Out iPad 2 - new iPad - iPhone 4
Introduction The iPad has been a phenomenal runaway success - to a degree that may have even surprised Steve Jobs. At the new iPad launch Tim Cook remarked that people have been wondering who would i...
Zuckerberg Skips Analyst Meeting
Facebook Inc. chief executive Mark Zuckerberg doesn't expect to play a hands-on role selling the social network's initial public offering to analysts, one Facebook executive told Wall Street analysts ...
CEO dares Microsoft to sue him over virtual desktops that flout licensing
We recently told you about a virtual desktop service for iPads and other devices that seems to exist only because it breaks Microsoft's Windows licensing rules in order to provide an unbeatable price:...
Mobile Devs Interested in Google Over Facebook for Social Mobile Apps
Google and Facebook are in a war for user attention on the Web. This is not just about how many eyeballs are on Google+ versus Facebook but also from an end-to-end platform perspective.
Windows Phone Outsells Symbian in U.K. Handsets, Study Says
Nokia Oyj (NOK1V)'s new smartphone platform, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 7, outsold its older smartphone system in the U.K. this year, market researcher Kantar Worldpanel said. — About 2.5 perce...
How Coldcalling Deadmau5 On Twitter Earned One Artist His Big Break
When I hear anyone talking about “the power of social media”, my brain immediately flips to thoughts of self-appointed gurus with uber-douche titles like “Twitter Ninja” or “Friendster Rockstar”. I c...
Gdgt's Focus Shifts to the Review
A little less than a year after the site's founders launched Gdgt.com, the tech site has been retooled into something a bit more like Metacritic. — The site, launched by Ryan Block and Peter Rojas i...
Microsoft gives cops tools to detect child porn
Microsoft is giving law enforcement PhotoDNA, a digital tool that sifts through massive amounts of online images to help identify instances of child pornography and rescue victims. — The software gi...
Game Makers Give Away ‘Freemium’ Products
Still paying 99 cents to download a smartphone game? That's far too much. More developers are now giving their games away — and then charging for extra features. — The strategy is known as freemiu...
Mozilla: Firefox needs H.264 support to survive shift to mobile
Mozilla began an internal discussion last week about whether to implement support for H.264 and other patent-encumbered media formats by relying on hardware decoding and codecs supplied by the underly...
Zynga's bid for Draw Something may top $200 million
What a strange story - a New York-based startup that began its life as a dating-gaming company, went through many incarnations has finally hit the jackpot. OMGPOP, the company behind Draw Something, ...
Two Bing Marketers Fired for ‘Mismanaging Company Assets,’ Violating Procurement Policy
Eric Hadley and Sean Carver Said to Have Violated Internal Rules — Two Bing marketing execs, Eric Hadley and Sean Carver, have been fired for misusing company funds, according to Microsoft.
New Wi-Fi roaming initiative could soon allow your smart device to connect to hotspots automatically
A new initiative between the GSMA and Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) announced today could see billions of smartphone and tablet owners effortlessly switch between mobile and Wi-Fi networks …
Google porn-bans Reddit Android app for linking to... Reddit
Within the past 24 hours Google Play removed and banned indie developer Andrew Shu's Reddit Is Fun app from its market. — Google Play's brief email told Shu the app - a fan-created link client - is ...
Intel seeks an alternate way into your living room with Atom CE5300 for set-top boxes
Intel has announced and made available the dual-core, 32nm Atom CE5300 system-on-chip designed for use in set-top boxes. It follows on from the company's Atom chips that saw use in Google TV-powered ...