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Research In Motion announced five new smartphones based on its new BlackBerry 7 operating system on Wednesday. AT&T, Sprint and U.S. Cellular will all get new devices that maintain some of the feel of earlier products while offering functionality competitive with the leading smartphones on the market ...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a system that combines facial recognition technology with social networking data and information drawn from other sources, raising new privacy concerns.The research team, led by Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology and public policy, will present its findings in full at Black Hat, a security conference to be held in Las Vegas later this week.
Sprint and LightSquared have entered a 15-year agreement to collaborate on spectrum hosting, network services, 4G wholesale and 3G roaming. LightSquared will pay Sprint to implement a nationwide LTE network that hosts L-Band spectrum licensed to or available to LightSquared. LightSquared will be able to sell the 4G broadband capacity produced in this deal to Sprint, other wireless carriers, and retail partners...
Luminate, formerly known as "Pixazza," has unveiled a new platform for image apps. The apps available on the Luminate platform will allow consumers to conduct activities such as shopping, sharing, commenting and navigating directly from the image. The platform can also facilitate new services made possible by the development of apps specifically for images...
Walmart is integrating its video streaming service, Vudu, with its Walmart.com website. Walmart acquired the cloud-based movie service in 2010. ...
AT&T collected US$31.5 billion in revenue and delivered $3.59 billion -- 60 cents per share -- in profit, according to Thursday's second quarter earnings report. Profits were down 10 percent from last year's second quarter profit of $4 billion. Revenue rose 2.2 percent over last year. The performance was in line with forecasts ...
AT&T collected US$31.5 billion in revenue and delivered $3.59 billion -- 60 cents per share -- in profit, according to Thursday's second quarter earnings report. Profits were down 10 percent from last year's second quarter profit of $4 billion. Revenue rose 2.2 percent over last year. The performance was in line with forecasts ...
Lenovo unveiled its first round of tablets on Wednesday: the IdeaPad K1 for consumers; the ThinkPad for business customers; and the Windows 7-powered IdeaPad P1 for home and office use ...
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner voiced his opinion on Google+ on Monday, saying there just isn't enough room for the search giant's foray into social media. Weiner made his remarks at an event at the Churchill Club in San Jose, Calif., sharing the stage with AllThingsD's Kara Swisher and William Morris agent Ari Emanuel ...
Spotify, a popular European streaming music provider, launched in the U.S. on Thursday. The music site is starting off its U.S. venture with an invitation-only beta that includes free, unlimited and premium plans. ...
Can the courts make you open your computer? They can certainly confiscate your computer and search it for evidence of criminal activity; they can compel you to open encrypted files if you're a suspected terrorist (The Patriot Act); but if you plead the Fifth, they may not be able to order you to fork over passwords ...
Cisco may shed as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, according to Bloomberg, which cited two sources familiar with the matter. The cuts are meant to revive profit growth; as many as 7,000 jobs could be eliminated by August. Cisco is also providing early retirement packages to about 3,000 workers who accepted buyouts ...
Amazon has announced three enhancements to its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services, which launched earlier this year: a storage plan with unlimited space for music; free storage for all Amazon MP3 purchases; and iPad support for Cloud Player for Web. ...
Who's the most popular person on Google's spanking new social networking site? Britney? Lady Gaga? Larry or Sergey? Nope, it's Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He has racked up a whopping 29,543 followers on Google+ as of Tuesday, beating out Google cofounders Larry Page -- who came in second with 19,878 -- and Sergey Brin, who took fourth place with 15,646...
Nortel awarded its 6,000 patents to the winning bidder, and it wasn't Google -- it was a consortium of six mobile technology leaders: Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony. The group paid US$4.5 billion in auction that took place over several days ...
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law Wednesday that will require Amazon.com and other Internet retailers to collect sales tax on goods sold to California residents ...
Zynga Game Network will likely file for an IPO on Thursday, based on a flurry of media reports that came out Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Though an impending Zynga IPO has been rumored for weeks, details are now leaking out. Zynga is a leading developer of social games such as "FarmVille" and "CityVille," which are wildly popular on Facebook...
Each day, more than half a million Android devices fire up. That's the word from Andy Rubin, Google's VP of engineering. In a Twitter post Monday, Rubin also noted the number of Android daily activations is growing 4.4 percent week over week. It was only two months ago that Google touted daily activations at 400,000 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the video game industry on Monday, striking down the California law forbidding the sale of violent games to minors. In its decision on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the court says that the act does not comport with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution ...
Google was notified by the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday that a broad formal investigation will be launched. Google respects the FTC's process, it said in a blog post, and will be working with the agency over the coming months. ...
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