RIM posts huge Q1 miss: First net loss in 8 years, BlackBerry 10 launch delayed, 5,000 jobs cut
Analysts anticipated another miss ahead of Research In Motion's first-quarter earnings report on Thursday as sales continue to stall ahead of the struggling smartphone vendor's …
Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits
Over the years, Google has built some of the most high performing, scalable and efficient data centers in the world by constantly refining our hardware and software. Since 2008, we've been working to...
Google announces Chrome for iPhone and iPad, available today
On stage at Google I/O, Brian Rakowski, Vice President of the Chrome division at Google has just announced Chrome for iPhone and iPad. It's something iOS users have been asking for for a very long ti...
Apple Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield retiring, Dan Riccio taking position
Apple just announced in a press release this evening that its Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield will be retiring. Check out the full press release after the break:
Google rolls out Android PDK with an eye to fixing fragmentation issues
Google is looking to fix Android's platform fragmentation by giving device manufacturers earlier access to upcoming versions of the Android OS. Starting with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, selected OEMs wil...
Project Glass Is The Future Of Google
Over the last few years one could easily say that Google had lost their way. They were no longer known for search. Somehow they'd turned into a company that acquired a series of nonsensical entities...
Hands On With Google Drive On iOS
As promised at this morning's Google I/O conference, Google has launched a version of its Google Drive application on iOS today, which offers native support for the service formerly known as Google Do...
Nexus 7 review: the best $200 tablet you can buy
In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing. The “race to the bottom,...
National Weather Service to send severe weather warnings directly to smartphones
Starting today, the National Weather Service (NWS) will send severe weather warnings to smartphone users in the path of dangerous conditions. The Wireless Emergency Alerts system will notify people o...
Microsoft Said To Plan Xbox Music Rivaling Apple, Spotify
Attendees at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, June 5, 2012. Microsoft Corp. expanded the sports and entertainment content offered through the Xbox, and is planning to add iTunes and Spotify for music.
Bing Venue Maps Goes International Adding Thousands of Shopping Malls
Whether you live in Poland or Spain, Russia or Belgium, or pretty much anywhere in-between, you will now be able to explore your local shopping mall through Bing maps - helping you locate the stores y...
Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts
June, it seems, is the season for new product announcements in Silicon Valley. At its annual WWDC shindig, Apple announced a slew of new products including its hot-new Macbook Pro with Retina displa...
Microsoft details its Windows 8 upgrade plans
Summary: Microsoft is getting closer to the Windows 8 finish line, and is finalizing details like its upgrade paths from older Windows releases to the coming version. — Microsoft has shared with sel...
Apple Said To Prepare ITunes Changes To Improve Sharing
Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans an overhaul of iTunes that would mark one of the largest changes to the world's biggest music store since its 2003 debut, according to people with direct knowledge of the matte...
Why Microsoft killed the Windows Start button
Microsoft claims it took the controversial decision to remove the Start button from the traditional Windows desktop because people had stopped using it. — The lack of a Start button on the Windows 8...
Virgin Mobile Will Open Retail Stores to Capitalize on IPhone
Virgin Mobile, the pay-as-you-go carrier owned by Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) (S), plans to open its first 10 retail stores tomorrow in Chicago, aiming to profit from the iPhone's expansion into the prepa...
The Modbook Pro returns, morphing a MacBook Pro into a pen-based tablet
You may recall a little product called the Modbook, an after-market mod for Apple's MacBooks. The mod kits — which have previously cost upwards of $5,000 — turns a MacBook Pro into a tablet computer ...
Pinterest has overtaken Tumblr in the United States
The Web has been abuzz about Pinterest for a while now. There is, shall we say, a great interest in Pinterest. So much interest, it turns out, that Pinterest in all likelihood is now getting more tr...
Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court
A case that seemed, just 5 months ago, to be a veritable David and Goliath fight is certainly living up to its billing. — The battle between Megaupload (David) and the US Government and the MPAA (Go...
Google to merge Hangouts, Talk & Messenger
Google is working on unifying its various real-time messaging applications across all devices, and the result could be a unified messenger that allows you to do one-on-one chats as well as group video...
Springpad wants to organize your Facebook Timeline
Note-taking service Springpad wants access to your Facebook profile. Why? It wants to scrape all of those random “likes” of movies, music, restaurants and TV shows scattered throughout your Timeline...
Verizon's ‘Share Everything’ plans are now available
As promised, Verizon's new “Share Everything” plans have launched today. The new packages let you share voice, text messages, and data across multiple devices, including smartphones and tablets. The...
Google TV will get subscription billing, support for movie and TV purchases in Google Play
While it didn't merit a spot in either keynote, the Google TV platform is also getting an updated version of the Google Play store. Along with a new UI that looks a lot like the one on other Android ...
Supreme Court Disappoints Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga and Yahoo
Supreme Court disappointed Obamacare haters and tech firms today — The big Supreme Court news today is that Obamacare got five thumbs up from the Court, meaning the president probably did this at so...
China to launch Netflix-like movie service
(Reuters) - The government-run China Movie Channel will launch an online service like Netflix in China this year, promising a big new revenue source for Hollywood from streaming its films and TV shows...
Chrome for iOS hits No.1 in Apple's App Store
Google's Chrome browser quickly became one of the most popular desktop Web browsers in the world, and now Google has its sites set on mobile. The app just launched for the iPhone and iPad earlier tod...
Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review
The fact that Google launched a 7" tablet by ASUS isn't a particularly huge surprise, given that ASUS showed off the Eee Pad Memo back at CES. The story goes that Google liked that particular tablet ...
Twitter's Mobile Ads Begin to Click
Majority of Revenue on Social Network Comes from Phones; One Advertiser Calls Results Staggering — Twitter Inc. is showing early signs of success selling advertising on mobile devices, an area that ...
Amazon prepping two new Kindle Fire tablets with improved build, metal casing
Amazon is working on not one, but two new Kindle Fire tablets that will launch in the coming months. Earlier reports suggested that Amazon will announce a new addition to its Kindle Fire lineup late ...
Rupert Murdoch Announces The News Corp. Divorce: The Full Memo
Here's Rupert Murdoch's official “internal” announcement explaining the News Corp. split. — The important stuff: — Murdoch will remain CEO of both the publishing business and the entertainment busi...
Google launches alleged Amazon Web Services killer, but lacks maturity, options
Summary: Google has thrown down a Amazon Web Services challenge, but has a way to go to match its rival on breadth and depth. — Google launched Compute Engine Infrastructure as a Service in a bid …
Android 4.1 preview for Galaxy Nexus leaked, available for download
A preview Jelly Bean ROM for the Galaxy Nexus has been leaked by RootzWiki. The release came just hours after Google pushed a Jelly Bean preview update over the air to I/O developers' Nexae.
Institutional Venture Partners Raises $1 Billion For Fund XIV, Its Biggest Yet
Angel investing may be hot, but it looks like things are not too shabby for the tech industry's most powerful late-stage venture capital firms either. — Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) …
RIM Earnings Preview: “Terrible With a Scoop of Worse”
Research In Motion has seen its BlackBerry revenues fall year over year for three consecutive quarters. When the company reports earnings on Thursday afternoon, it will almost certainly become four.
Someone is Coming to Eat You
One of my favorite Apple product announcements happened on September 7, 2005. In an Apple music event announcement, Steve Jobs got on stage, gave the usual state of the business update, and then he d...
Google's Play Store Now Lets Users Remotely Update And Uninstall Android Apps
All Googled out yet? I can't blame you if you are, but it seems that the company has been even busier than their two hour press conference let on. — In addition to pushing the Android version of th...
The sledgehammer of usage-based billing
Brian Stelter's article today, “Sweeping Effects as Broadband Moves To Meters,” illuminates a part of the local cable monopoly story for high-speed Internet access and the consequences of this power f...
Practice Fusion Nabs $34 Million
Practice Fusion, a San Francisco start-up that provides an online electronic medical record platform, said it has raised a new $34 million round of funding. — The funding values Practice Fusion at c...
Salesforce.com hit outage, cites fault in storage tier
Summary: Salesforce's technology team said that the instance was hit with a “fault in our storage tier.” The company is working with its storage vendor to resolve the issue. — Salesforce.com was hi...
Apple posts $2.6M bond to begin preliminary injunction on Galaxy Tab 10.1
There were reports earlier this week that District Judge Lucy Koh issued a preliminary injunction on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States related to the ongoing cases between Apple and Samsung.