RIM reports Q4 miss; Balsillie resigns as director, CTO and COO both out
With expectations at an all-time low and analysts lowering estimates left and right, Research In Motion on Thursday reported its results for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012. RIM posted a surprising...
RIM begins laying off high-level staff: source
Research In Motion Ltd.'s RIM-T new CEO Thorsten Heins has begun getting rid of high-level staff at the troubled smartphone giant, according to a source close to the company. — Ahead of RIM reportin...
Apple, Foxconn vow wide revamp of worker conditions
(Reuters) - In a landmark development for the way Western companies do business in China, Apple Inc said Thursday it had agreed to work with partner Foxconn to substantially improve wages and working ...
Google to Sell Tablets on Its Own This Year
Google Inc., undaunted by a short-lived attempt to sell a smartphone on its own, is now pushing into Apple's iPad market. — The Internet search company is planning to market and sell tablets directl...
Hulu Plus Arrives on Seven Android Tablets. With a Brand New Style.
Today marks a very special day for us at Hulu. From the beginning, our focus has been to bring the world's most beloved TV shows and movies to entertainment fans whenever they want, wherever they wan...
No, Google Doesn't Make Four Times More Off The iPhone Vs. Android
The Guardian is out with figures suggesting that Google earned only $550 million off Android in the past four years, which in turn sparked headlines that the iPhone is more a cash cow for Google than ...
Google Doesn't Not Make Four Times More Off The iPhone Vs. Android
Danny Sullivan argues that the conclusions about Android revenues based on the Oracle v. Google court document are flawed. That's certainly possible, but it doesn't sound as flawed as Sullivan seems ...
Facebook Delves Deeper Into Search
On Feb. 1, a few hours after Facebook declared its intention to raise $5 billion in what will likely be the largest initial public offering in tech history, Mark Zuckerberg gave close followers of his...
Paper: the next great iPad app, from the brains behind Courier
Georg Petschnigg throws his hands into the air as he traces thousands of years of human evolution that led us to develop the fragile wrists we need to use tools. Petschnigg locks his wrist into place...
Smartphones Account for Half of all Mobile Phones, Dominate New Phone Purchases in the US
Almost half (49.7%) of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones, as of February 2012. According to Nielsen, this marks an increase of 38 percent over last year; in February 2011, only 36 percent o...
Apple's War on Android
In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge. The Harvard-educated former federal prosecutor has served on th...
Star-struck Japan PM befriends Facebook's Zuckerberg
(Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda frequently entertains dignitaries from all over the world, but he was a touch star-struck on Thursday when he hosted a young billionaire with a whiff...
Millennial Media Shares Pop 100 Percent In First Trade; Valued At Nearly $2B
Mobile ad network Millennial Media just debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MM,” and saw shares pop 97 percent in the first trade of $25. The company initially priced its IPO at ...
Apple Invents a Killer 3D Imaging Camera for iOS Devices
Apple has invented a killer 3D imaging camera that will apply to both still photography and video. The new cameras in development will utilize new depth-detection sensors such as LIDAR, RADAR and Las...
Microsoft talks touch hardware in Windows 8
Touch screens are not all the same. Even screens that use the same technology (capacitive, resistive, or optical) will show different behavior depending on the controllers used and other details. Wi...
A fast, accurate, and affordable way to do online market research
From international brands to local food trucks, every business wants to make important decisions with their customers' feedback in mind. Which version of your new logo will people like better? How m...
Best Buy feels Amazon squeeze, to close 50 big-box stores
Selling consumer electronics isn't as easy as it used to be for Best Buy. The big-box retailer is closing 50 stores and compensating employees based on customer service after its fiscal fourth-quarte...
LG unveils flexible plastic e-paper display, aims for European launch next month
LG has made no secret of its fondness for flexible e-paper, but those dreams became a reality today, with the announcement of a six-inch display that promises to “revolutionize the e-book market.”
iPhone 4 owners can register for $15 antennagate settlements (updated)
The official website for the iPhone 4 “antennagate” class action settlement is live, as pointed out by co-lead counsel on the case Ira Rothken. Of course, speaking of cases, if you're an iPhone 4 own...
RIM Attacks Apple's Nano-SIM Tactics
Research In Motion has sent a letter to a standards group complaining about Apple's tactics in the battle over the upcoming nano-SIM standard, joining Nokia in trying to shed doubt over Apple's effort...
Google Now Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street View Addresses
Have you started seeing images in online reCAPTCHAs that look suspiciously like house numbers pulled from Google Street View? Well, as it turns out, that's exactly what they are. Google confirmed it...
Google's Self-Driving Car Takes Blind Man for a Ride
Google this week posted a YouTube video (below) showing Morgan Hill, Calif. resident Steve Mahan, who is legally blind, being taken on a ride in its self-driving Toyota Prius. Google released the vid...
Bump Launches Payments App To Let You Share Money By Tapping Phones Together
More than a snazzy new feature, Bump Pay is the culmination of lessons learned by CEO David Lieb. — Bump, the app that lets users “bump” smartphones together to share contacts and photos, is launchi...
Google's New ‘Account Activity’ Is a Sham
When it comes to privacy, Google wants to be the good guy . Too bad that's not enough. — Google Account Activity is Google's fairly transparent attempt to differentiate itself from Facebook by bein...
Kickstarter Shares The Effects Of Its Blockbuster Season
February was a big month for Kickstarter. Not only did they have a number of record-breaking projects, but they were shoved into the mainstream consciousness with a flood of traditional news coverage...
Microsoft files restraining order, offers $300M bond in Motorola patent case
Microsoft has filed a restraining order and offered a $300 million bond in an attempt to ward off an injunction requested by Motorola that would affect a wide variety of Microsoft products.
Google's Grand Plan
The search company no longer dabbles in exotic ideas. Now, it's all business. — In a typical month, David Lawee meets two dozen founders of new companies. He grills them on their businesses, their...
Fake ID holders beware: facial recognition service Face.com can now detect your age
Facial-recognition platform Face.com could foil the plans of all those under-age kids looking to score some booze. Fake IDs might not fool anyone for much longer, because Face.com claims …
Apple's Tim Cook Visits Foxconn IPhone Plant in China
Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook visited Foxconn Technology Group's newly built manufacturing facility for the iPhone in Zhengzhou, China, as the U.S. company seeks to improve workin...
Dell Ends Smartphone Sales in the US
Dell has stopped selling smartphones in the U.S. as it tweaks its mobile strategy to focus more on emerging markets and higher-margin products. — Dell has nixed its last standing Venue and Venue Pro...
Some Thoughts On Online Privacy
There are signs that Washington is gearing up to do something big in the area of online privacy. The FTC put out a report earlier this week and the White House called for a “privacy bill of rights” l...
HootSuite Takes A Little Cash Off The Table To ‘De-Risk,’ Aims For Bigger Game
Social media management company HootSuite Media has ballooned since it started a little over three years ago, winning business from global brands and growing to nearly four million users, with $75 mil...
Do You Have What it Takes to be the ‘Next’ great YouTube Vlogger?
Vlogging, or video blogging, videos are some of the most popular on YouTube. And rightfully so—they're one of the few types of videos that literally anyone can create: all you have to do is sit in fr...
Google's $199 Nexus tablet may pressure vendors to cut prices
It is widely believed that Google will entere the tablet market in 2012 with an own-branded 7-inch Android tablet. The search giant has reportedly partnered with ASUS to build a $199 device that will...
AVAILABILITY: HTC announces One X, One S and One V availability for next week [UPDATE]
Tagged under: [HTC] [HTC_One] [HTC_One_X] [HTC_One_S] [HTC_One_V] [HTC_Sense_4.0] [Android_4.0] — HTC today announced that its recently announced HTC One-series of Android smartphones will be availa...
Nearly 1 Billion Smart Connected Devices Shipped in 2011 with Shipments Expected to Double by 2016, According to IDC
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 28, 2012 -The universe of smart connected devices, including PCs, media tablets, and smartphones, saw shipments of more than 916 million units …
Spotify Keeps the Free Music Party Going in the U.S.
Good news for American Spotify users who don't want to pay for their music: The streaming service will continue to let them listen to anything they want, without restrictions, for a while longer. — ...
Snapguide wants to be your handheld how-to guide for everything
There are plenty of websites that provide in-depth information about specific topics, but apart from a few tired old services like eHow from Demand Media, there aren't many places you can go to find h...
New U.S. Research Will Aim at Flood of Digital Data
The federal government is beginning a major research initiative in big data computing. The effort, which will be announced on Thursday, involves several government agencies and departments, and commi...
Spectrum of revenge: how the FCC is under attack from Congress and AT&T
There's been a rising drumbeat for FCC reform on Capitol Hill ever since the agency helped block the AT&T / T-Mobile deal — and that beat's being led by the nation's biggest carriers, their lobbyists ...
Former Zong CEO And Founder And Mobile VP David Marcus Named President Of eBay's PayPal
After former president Scott Thompson departed for the CEO role at Yahoo, PayPal has named David Marcus, the former CEO and founder of mobile payments startup Zong and PayPal Mobile VP, as President …