RIM may sell handset business, according to The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times reports today that RIM is considering a plan to split its handset division and messaging network into two separate companies, and will sell off the struggling BlackBerry hardware busi...
‘Find Friends Nearby’: Facebook's New Mobile Feature For Finding People Around You [Updated]
Facebook has created a new feature that lets users find friends and potential friends nearby. Initially called “Friendshake” and also accessible through a URL that is the abbreviation of …
Boxopus Downloads Torrents Directly to Your Dropbox
Founded in 2007, Dropbox has quickly become the leading player in cloud hosting and synchronization services. — The service is loved by many for its ease of use, and thanks to the newly launched Box...
Microsoft: Apostasy Or Head Fake?
My appetite whetted by three days of rumors, I went online last Monday and watched Microsoft introduce its Surface tablets. After the previous false starts — the moribund Tablet PC and the still-born...
Sony Xperia Ion review: an Android handset with a split personality
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. But that adage, such a truism when applied to interpersonal relationships, doesn't quite carry the same weight when extended to the intimacy between expe...
U.S. Military Hunts for Safe Smartphones for Soldiers
The military has long needed computers that are tough enough on the outside to withstand the rough and tumble of the battlefield. Now, with the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the hands o...
Thousands of office printers hit by “gibberish” malware
Summary: What's been dubbed as a “paper salesman's dream come true,” thousands of printers worldwide are spewing out garbled content as a result of a malware infection. — Thousands of office printer...
Wikipedia is editorial warzone, says study
The Internet is a wonderland for sociologists, and one of the richest areas of study is Wikipedia, with its years of open collaboration and communication archived for posterity. But with collaboratio...
Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
15 years on, Winamp still lives—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping. Tens of millions of Winamp users are still out there. MP3s are so natural to the Internet now that it's almost hard to i...
AOL Will Start Paying Out Its Pile-O'-Patent-Cash to Shareholders This Week Via Stock Buyback
For those AOL shareholders waiting for a juicy dividend after the Internet company's billion-dollar sale of its patent portfolio to Microsoft, it appears you'll have to get your gains via …
Why Facebook Is Folding On Credits And Doubling Down On Payments
In a surprising move this week, with just a short post on their Developer Blog, Facebook has ended their three-year experi ment with the virtual currency of Facebook Credits. Credits will be phased o...