Intel shows first smartphone with Merrifield chip
Intel on Tuesday showed the first smartphone based on its next Atom smartphone chip code-named Merrifield, which will provide better performance and battery life than current Atom chips. — The Merri...
Fact Sheet: White House Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues
Today the White House announced major steps to improve incentives for future innovation in high tech patents, a key driver of economic growth and good paying American jobs. The White House issued fiv...
HTC Operations Chief Steps Down as Profit Slumps on Phone Delays
HTC Corp. (2498) Chief Operating Officer Matthew Costello will step down after less than three years at Taiwan's biggest smartphone maker amid slumping sales that have pushed down shares 76 percent in...
Salesforce.com Makes Its Biggest Acquisition Yet, Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion
Salesforce.com just announced that it will make its biggest acquisition yet: It will spend $2.5 billion to acquire the cloud marketing company ExactTarget. — Salesforce is paying $33.75 a share.
Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space
After weeks of rumors, Facebook has just signed a 10-year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000-square-foot space over two floors at 770 Broadway in Manhattan.
Acer's flagship Aspire S7 may be 2013's ultrabook to beat, S3 needs low price to succeed
At Acer's press conference in Taipei yesterday, the company announced some very welcome changes to one of our favorite ultrabooks of 2012: the Aspire S7. Our two primarily complaints with the machine...
Apple denies conspiracy in ebook pricing trial: “Publishers fought [us] tooth and nail”
The Department of Justice's trial against Apple kicked off in New York Monday. The DOJ alleges that Apple conspired with publishers to set ebook prices, while Apple argues that there was no conspirac...
IBM to Acquire Cloud Services Company SoftLayer
Computing giant IBM just made another move in its quest to becoming the biggest provider of cloud computing services. It said it will acquire SoftLayer, a privately held cloud services player based i...
Dell refreshes its XPS 12 Ultrabook, XPS 27 all-in-one and XPS 8500 desktop
Now that it's unveiled its next-gen Ultrabook, Dell's taking the opportunity to refresh the machines it's already got. Starting with the XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, the company is adding an NFC chi...
Apple Begins Offering In-Store iPhone 5 Display Replacements for $149
As part of a shift to lower repair costs, Apple has begun replacing iPhone 5 screens at its retail locations. The new display replacement service is priced at $149 and can be purchased with or withou...
Susan Molinari Adds to Google's Political Firepower
WASHINGTON — Susan Molinari had wrapped up her second week as Google's chief Washington lobbyist when she got a call at home late on a Friday that blindsided her: the Federal Communications Commission...
Chicago Sun-Times trains reporters to shoot with iPhones after laying off all its photographers
The Chicago Sun-Times this week laid off all 28 of its staff photographers, and has reportedly begun training its remaining reporters on “iPhone photography basics.”
NVIDIA CEO demos new stylus touchscreen tech, uses Tegra 4 image processing to reduce battery drain
Elaborating from the battery-saving PRISM screen tech that we saw on Tegra 3 devices, the NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed off a new software-based touchscreen technology that allows …
Online throttling and site-blocking to be outlawed in Europe under net neutrality plan
Summary: We will guarantee access to the full and open internet on every device, on every network, says the EU's digital chief. — Steve Ranger — ISPs will be barred from blocking …
Lenovo planning smartphone venture in expansion drive
(Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC maker, is in detailed discussions on a smartphone venture with NEC Corp, a Japanese partner in PCs whose mobile business is faltering, as it e...
Europe Is Losing the 4G Race
Once a Pioneer in Cellphone Technology, the Region Trails Asia and the U.S. as Regulation Threatens Network Investment — Vodafone said it will boost its network investment in its home market. Pictu...