Google is almost ready to start selling its own tablet. The device, according to the New York Times, will be “an e-reader that would function like a computer.†So close is it that Eric Schmidt, CEO at Google,...
Palm has put itself up for sale and is actively looking for bids this week, according to Bloomberg.
Following the company’s poor performance over the last few months, speculation has been rife that a sale was on the cards.
Sales of...
Most of the initial buzz surrounding Apple’s announcement on Thursday of its new operating system, iPhone OS 4, centered on the support for multitasking. While this feature has been long anticipated by users and developers alike,...
Earlier this week Microsoft sent out invitations for a “mystery event” that will take place in San Francisco on Monday. But the mystery is unraveling early, with the release of slips and signs that suggest that Pink, the unfortunately-named,...
Twitter has acquired atebits, the company that makes popular Tweetie applications for the iPhone and Mac OS X. In so doing, the company is fortifying itself as a mobile communications service  that happens to have a web...
One of the ways to boost single-threaded performance on multicore machines is to shut down the cores that aren’t in use and divert power to whichever cores are running the single-threaded workload. That’s essentially what Intel’s...
Back in November, we started hearing murmurs that Google was considering whether or not to factor site speed into its search ranking algorithm. In a blog post today, the search giant confirms it is now adding site speed to its list of criteria...
The claws are out. Adobe’s Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow retaliated today with a post on his Flash Blog. Brimelow holds little back, lambasting the company for trying to exert a “tyrannical control over...
Apple could be planning a smaller, cheaper version of its iPad tablet device with a screen size of 5-inches to 7-inches, and a price under $400, for launch in the first quarter of 2011, according to a new report.
Citing its senior analyst,...
Last November Google acquired Gizmo5, a VoIP service that competed with Skype by making P2P VoIP calls as well as making and receiving calls with POTS (normal landlines) and mobile phones.
Gizmo5 fills some of the holes in the Google Voice...
It’s unclear whether the Win7 SP1 build has USB 3.0 support or enhanced Bluetooth and Wi-fi stacks implemented
The reports that Microsoft will soon deliver the first service packs of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 seem likely...
Some new owners of Apple’s slate computer, the iPad, are having issues with the device’s Wi-Fi connection. Multiple forum postings, both on Apple’s own support site and elsewhere, have users reporting that they’re...