Dell founder ‘turned down Autonomy’
Billionaire entrepreneur Michael Dell has revealed that Autonomy was offered to him before it was bought by Hewlett-Packard, but that he rejected the British software firm because it was “overwhelming...
Microsoft balks at Apple's 30% fee, leaving SkyDrive and apps that integrate with it in the lurch on iOS
Microsoft and Apple are currently locked in something of a Cold War over the future of SkyDrive in the iOS App Store. — Sources close to Microsoft have detailed to TNW a difficult …
Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion
Google Inc. (GOOG) avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company, almost double the total from three years before, filing...
Twitter photos: Put a filter on it
Every day, millions of people come to Twitter to connect with the things they care about and find out what's happening around the world. As one of the most compelling forms of self-expression, photos...
25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in < 6 hours
Welcome to Radeon City, population: 8. It's one of five servers that make up a high-performance password-cracking cluster. — Jeremi Gosney — A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer clu...
YouTube Brings Guide Interface To Tablets, With Updates To Its Android App And Mobile Web
YouTube has been making a ton of updates to its UI lately, but the video-sharing platform isn't quite ready to call it quits just yet. The company announced on its Google+ page today that it has upda...
Bloomberg Weighs Making Bid for The Financial Times
Not long ago, The Financial Times would have been the crown jewel of any media company, instantly conferring prestige and influence on its owner. Now, given the likely bidders, one of the world's mos...
Samsung hints it is announcing ‘something new’ at CES in January; could it be the Galaxy S4?
It's less than seven months since Samsung released the Galaxy S3, its flagship smartphone, in May, but already it appears that the Korean electronics giant is getting ready to unveil its sequel …
Motorola to exit South Korea in 2013, as Google restructuring claims another 500+ jobs
Motorola Mobility is to close down almost all of its operations in South Korea next year as its reorganization under the ownership of Google continues. The phone maker will keep 10 percent of its loc...
Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October
It was big news when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the world that Windows Phone devices were selling at four times their rate from 2011. That, along with several other positive factors …
Silicon nanophotonics: IBM's light chips could save data centers from bandwidth traffic jams
IBM is announcing today it has created breakthrough silicon nanophotonics chips, or those that can use traditional silicon technology and laser light to transfer data at extremely high speeds.
Five Years In And Profitable, Gilt Refocuses On New Leadership, An IPO In 2013 And More
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson walked into famed celebrity designer Zac Posen's showroom in November 2007 prepared to give the pitch of her life. The Gilt co-founder was attempting to sell Posen and his tea...