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Reaction mixed to Sprint offering new iPhone 4S

Shane Adams can relax. A loyal Sprint Nextel customer and techie obsessive, the Internet marketing manager from Olathe, Kan., had verily drooled at the rumors of an iPhone coming to his hometown carrier.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bringing Chrome to Android more than wishful thinking

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first version of Chrome for Android should be just around the corner, according to ConceivablyTech. “Google is heading toward the finish line for the first release of Chrome for Android,” ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Jackson doctor trial app tops App Store chart

An iPad application that offers a live stream of the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor hit the top of the charts in Apple's App Store on Thursday.

Technology / Software

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo! stays on course after CEO ouster

Yahoo! argued that the ouster of its chief executive has not knocked it off course, and that it was building on its strategy of making offerings more social and mobile.

Technology / Business

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM looks to take pain out of parking

US technology stalwart IBM and Internet startup Streetline on Wednesday will begin courting cities with a system designed to take the pain out of parking.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

RIM shares soar on Icahn stake reports

Shares of Research In Motion rose sharply on Wall Street on Tuesday amid speculation that billionaire US investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in the troubled BlackBerry maker.

Technology / Business

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

McAfee adds protection for mobile gadgets

Computer security firm McAfee on Tuesday will launch a service that unifies defenses for computers, smartphones and tablets.

Technology / Software

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amazon expected to unveil tablet at mystery event

With nearly 30 million iPads sold, Apple is the undisputed tablet computer champion. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, US computer giant Hewlett-Packard, South Korea's Samsung and scores of other companies with devices ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile-security services take off

The prospect of consumers and employees physically losing information-packed mobile devices, or getting them hacked, has become the driver for a red-hot sector of the tech industry: supplying mobile security.

Technology / Software

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung says 10 million Galaxy S II handsets sold

South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker after Nokia, said Sunday it had sold 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide since the device debuted in April.

Technology / Business

created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Software developer shows face-swapping in realtime (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developer Arturo Castro and media artist Kyle MacDonald have put out a video demo of their software that replaces their faces with other faces in realtime. Their face-swapping, face-morphing ...

Technology / Software

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Taiwan's Quanta to cut 1,000 workers

Taiwan's Quanta Computer, a leading notebook computer maker, said Wednesday it will lay off 1,000 workers at a local factory that was reopened just months ago due to poor sales of non-iPad tablets.

Technology / Business

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HTML5 OS is set to disrupt platform lock-in

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Canada-based startup founded in November 2010 arrived at TechCrunch Disrupt last week to debut its "HTML5 operating system" called Carbyn. To get this system, there is nothing to install; ...

Technology / Software

created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

Intel teams with Google on smartphone chips

Intel on Tuesday announced that it has teamed with Google to tailor chips to get top performance out of smartphones powered by the Internet giant's Android software.

Technology / Business

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google to offer tracking opt-out to Wi-Fi owners (Update)

(AP) -- Google Inc. is going to let people with home wireless networks decide whether they want to be lumped into a system that helps pinpoint the locations of people on cell phones.

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3