For Apple customers the disappointment of getting an iPhone 4S instead of a 5 was much like ripping off a Band Aid. The announcement came (on time) it was quick, painful and then people got over it. Verizon Galaxy Nexus fans; however, have taken one blow after another and still no official announcements have been made about the phone's release, which is causing loyal customers to look elsewhere.
No longer will Android users be envious of Apple iPhone 4S owners and their voice-controlled smartphones now that Android has its own alternative version of Siri, Cluzee. Cluzee, the new voice-controlled assistant service made by Tronton, hit the Android market on Tuesday offering Android users a Siri-inspired service.
Samsung's Galaxy S2 comes in three variations, and two of them have different large screen sizes. The AT&T variant, called the Skyrocket, has a 4.5-inch touchscreen display, and it's not even the largest Samsung device! Samsung dominates this list, but that shouldn't be a surprise because they are the largest smartphone maker in the world.
Online retail sales on Cyber Monday 2011 hit record highs and jumped 33 percent compared to the same day last year, according to a report from IBM Coremetrics.
Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived customers into believing personal information was private when in fact it was public, the commission announced Tuesday.
Still another private equity bidder may be eyeing a bid for Yahoo: Boston-based giant Thomas H. Lee Partners
Struggling mobile telecom gear venture Nokia Siemens Networks said on Tuesday it had agreed to sell a unit working on a niche WiMax technology to private-equity backed NewNet Communication Technologies.
Shares of Seagate Technology (STX.O) jumped 9 percent in pre-market trade on Tuesday after the hard disk drive maker forecast strong second-quarter revenue.
It is now possible for iPhone users to share the 3G connection from their smartphone with their laptops through iTether. iTether is a USB tethering app that has passed the Apple approval process and recently launched for iOS. The data sharing app currently costs $15.
Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc said global cloud data traffic will grow at a compound annual rate of 66 percent between 2010 and 2015, as consumers and businesses seek untethered access to content and applications.
Thomas H. Lee Partners is interested in buying the U.S. operations of Yahoo Inc, breaking away from other bidders that are for now eyeing either a minority stake or teaming up with the Internet giant's partners in Asia, sources familiar with the matter said.
Standing in long queues as Egyptians wait to cast their vote, many are tweeting, filming, and relaying their every observation, bringing a new dimension to election monitoring in the Arab world's most populous nation.
AT&T is in talks with Leap Wireless International about a potential sale of some assets to the smaller operator in a last ditch effort to gain regulatory approval for AT&T's proposed T-Mobile USA purchase, according to a New York Times report.
In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility, Argentinian scientists describe how they got semen samples from 29 healthy men, placed a few drops under a laptop connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi and then hit download.
U.S. computer software company SAS Institute cannot claim copyright protection for the functions performed by its programs, which have been replicated by a rival, an adviser to Europe's highest court said.
iPhone Catches Fire Aboard Aircraft
Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network, is preparing for an initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Siri was the talk of the town when Apple launched its latest smartphone iPhone 4S Oct. 14 and it fascinated the techies.
Apple Inc. has released the beta of iOS 5.1, the upgraded version of its newest mobile operating system, to developers; iOS 5 was similarly released, a month ago. Questions are being asked if the forthcoming version of the operating system will be free from the bugs that plagued its predecessors. It is also interesting to note that Apple went straight to a 5.1 version, skipping iOS 5.0.2.
Microsoft Corp and U.S. mobile engineering firm AgreeYa Mobility on Tuesday signed an agreement to allow corporations and other users to connect to Microsoft services from a variety of computing platforms, including phones and tablets running Apple Inc's iOS and Google Inc's Android.
U.S. group Hewlett-Packard has rolled out its first software using technology gained from its $12 billion acquisition of British group Autonomy, eight weeks after the deal closed.
U.S. group Hewlett-Packard has rolled out its first software using technology gained from its $12 billion acquisition of British group Autonomy, eight weeks after the deal closed.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is seeking to cash in as companies switch to rival smartphones with a new tool that offers some of its important security features for sexier devices like the iPhone.
Thomas H. Lee Partners is interested in buying the U.S. operations of Yahoo Inc, breaking away from other bidders that are for now eyeing either a minority stake or teaming up with the Internet giant's partners in Asia, sources familiar with the matter said.
Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network, is preparing for a initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Cyber Monday was on course to set another record for retail sales on Monday, as the strong start to the holiday shopping season continued online.
The rumor mill surrounding the Galaxy Nexus LTE is buzzing again, as reports have surfaced that Verizon may start preorders for the device on Tuesday with a released date on Dec. 8.
Teen singing sensation Justin Bieber was named the most searched person this year on Internet search engine Bing on Monday, edging out reality TV star Kim Kardashian and Friends actress Jennifer Aniston.
Sony's $500 Android tablet may need to take a cue from the HP TouchPad and the BlackBerry PlayBook and drop the price by a couple hundred dollars. Then it would be in a better position to duke it out with the Kindle Fire. Amazon does offer it for about $100 less, but even at that price, the 9.4-inch Tablet S is not as good of a buy as the Kindle Fire.
The top U.S. military officer said on Monday the United States was vulnerable to cyber attacks, and called for more aggressive action to bolster America's online defenses.
