Samsung not seen quaking in boots over Apple-Elpida report
Apple Inc will struggle to cut its reliance on rival Samsung Electronics for component supplies, analysts and industry sources said on Thursday, despite speculation that it has begun reducing its use of Samsung memory chips. Samsung has lost 6 percent of its value, or $11 billion, since a Taiwanese trade news outlet reported on Wednesday
Groupon reports first quarterly profit
Groupon posted its first quarterly profit as the world's largest daily deal company reined in marketing spending while signing up more customers and merchants, sending its stock 12.5% higher. The daily deals company, started by music graduate Andrew Mason, said it now had 36.9 million active customers, and surpassed 100,000 merchants
Apps Rush: Nokia Reading, PopSci Interactive, Monopoly zAPPed, LinkedIn, My NHS, Bulmers and more
Nokia has launched its own e-books store and reader app for Windows Phone. It's launching now in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain, through the Nokia Collection sub-store in Windows Phone Marketplace. The store includes paid and free e-books, with audiobook and an RSS-feed feature to come.Windows PhoneMagazine publisher
Obamas team of tech gurus to unleash Holy Grail of digital campaigning
Barack Obama's re-election campaign for the White House is poised to launch its secret weapon: an online tool that the campaign hopes will vastly increase its ability to mobilise volunteers and potential voters across the US. The new tool, called Dashboard, is being seen as the possible Holy Grail of digital political organising, one that
Sony slides to three-decade low on strategy doubts
Shares in Sony Corp slumped more than 7 percent to near 32-year lows, as investors doubted the Japanese consumer electronics giant has a strategy to fix its loss-making TV business and compete in the smartphone market against Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics. The last time Sony shares were this low, in the summer of 1980, its first
HP Declares New Sleekbooks Notebook Category
Ultrabooks and its Sleekbooks are part of HP's 'thin and light' portfolio, but the specs don't show too much of a difference between the two lines. HP is 'attempting to slipstream the Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Ultrabook initiative with a product that doesn't comply with it,' Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told
Report: Smartphones, not computers, drive most Facebook use
According to comScore's new Mobile Metrix 2.0 report released Monday, Facebook's mobile usage is on the rise. In fact, the report revealed that Facebook users spent more time accessing the social network on smartphones than on computers in March. Facebook users spent an average of 441 minutes —
The Tech-Adept Kitchen: A Homes Heart - and Brain
Programmable ovens and stoves with pre-set recipes and instructions for various dishes, for instance, take much of the guesswork out of making a meal. In this way, Wolf's convection steam oven helps cooks along while they're making dinner. '[It] properly adjusts the time and temperature based on the amount and size of the food being
Alternatives to Youtube catch on with mobile crowd
Like many musicians looking for that big break, 24-year-old Angeleno Felice Lazae turned to YouTube for years to promote her songs -- with modest success, at one point getting more than 100,000 views on her cover of an Alicia Keys hit. But this month, the Los Angeles singer plans to premiere her newest music video not on YouTube but on
LG Electronics to launch Google TV in U.S. in late May: executive
LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.2 TV maker, plans to launch Internet-enabled TV based on Google's platform in the United States in the week of May 21, as the South Korean firm seeks to gain a larger share of the emerging Internet TV market, a senior LG executive said on Monday. The move reflects an aggressive push by the duo to defend
The Samsung Galactic Empire
The S III runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) operating system and one that up to this point hasn't taken residence on a very large number of phones. As opposed to Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) monolithic update strategy , Android updates come along when phonemakers say they will. So far, not too many
Amazon spoof reviews bring art of satire to website
It was started by a handful of isolated enthusiasts, gradually became a cult craze, and is now threatening to become a commercial enterprise. Spoof reviews posted on Amazon have sent demand for the most unlikely merchandise soaring and are playing havoc with the online giant's famed algorithms, the complex formulas that recommend what
Nvidia Levels Up With New Gaming Graphics Card
For everyone else, the release of a video card that carries a price point just under US$1,000 will certainly draw attention. The Nvidia GTX 690, which is powered by dual Kepler-based architecture-based GPUs, also features a chromium-plated aluminum casing that is a departure from the typical chips and fans on a board. Nvidia made it clear
Verizon reps push 4G Android over iPhone
Anecdotal evidence is stacking up on chat forums and other outlets from people who say that Verizon Wireless' sales representatives actively discouraged them from buying an iPhone and instead pushed hard for rival smartphones. 'Went in to buy an iPhone 4s... but walked out with a Razr,' is the headline of one typical post. 'Do sales
Ubuntu Linux 12.04: Microsofts Worst Nightmare?
It's one of the Ubuntu clan, as its nickname makes clear, but that's as far as the foolin' goes. With five years of support and a scaly, tough hide, this one's here to stay. With time on its side and its eye on the prize, it may just blaze a new trail. Can freedom take hold in a world that's been dominated for so long? That's the new hope
Samsung unwraps latest Galaxy rival to iPhone
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) unveiled a new top-of-the-range Galaxy smartphone in London on Thursday, updating the most direct rival to Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone with a larger touch screen and more powerful processor. The South Korean technology group, which overtook Finnish company Nokia (NOK1V.HE) as the world's biggest cellphone maker
Samsung unveils Galaxy S III smartphone with face, voice recognition
Samsung has launched its Galaxy S III smartphone, which it hopes will help solidify the company as the leading challenger to Apple and its iPhone 4S. The new handset, with a whopping 4.8-inch screen and an 8-megapixel camera, was unveiled at a slick launch party in London on Thursday, complete
Intel wants to plug a smartphone into your brain
An Intel-commissioned white paper released Wednesday on the future of mobile technology concludes that connected devices interfacing with the human brain is an inevitability. Here's how the paper's authors, from consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, put it: 'As convergence continues across device types, functions, and capabilities, the melding
