Wall Street pegs 4% slide in Mac sales, 6% boost to iPad
Mac sales fell 4% in the quarter that ended June 30, putting Apple into the same leaky boat as the much larger, problem-plagued PC industry, according to a survey of several dozen financial analysts.
View ArticleApple CEO wonders what those other guys’ tablets are used for
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday let loose another salvo at rival tablets, audaciously dismissing them as devices that no one uses.
View ArticleApple’s smartphone market share drops to three-year low
Apple's share of the smartphone market dropped in the second quarter to its lowest level in three years, research firm Strategy Analytics said.
View ArticleInstagram, Vine short videos causing explosion on wireless networks
More than five years ago, Cisco began warning wireless carriers and consumers about the coming barrage of video traffic over networks. Now that barrage is here and there's more to come.
View ArticleYahoo snags Rockmelt with plans to kill its aggregation apps
Yahoo's transformative string of acquisitions continues as the company has revealed plans to acquire Rockmelt, a three-year old startup that has spawned an array of desktop and mobile apps for...
View ArticleRoses are #f00, violets are #00f. This witty code is a boffinry breakthrough
What do you call a computer program that uses big data to write jokes? Basic, judging by the list of groan-worthy gags generated by this new wisecracking software.
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy Note III unveiling expected Sept. 4
Samsung plans to announce a new Galaxy device -- probably the Note III -- on Sept. 4 in Berlin, according to an invitation sent to reporters on Monday. The invitation includes mention of a live Webcast...
View ArticleAndroid exec leaves Google for Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi
Google’s Android product chief is leaving Mountain View for an up-and-coming Chinese smartphone-maker.
View ArticleApple faces threat from China, bellwether in battle against Android
Apple faces a threat from an unexpected quarter: Chinese developers crafting Android apps, an analytics firm said today.
View ArticleMicrosoft takes aim at Google with Nokia’s mapping products
Microsoft wants to build a better mobile phone through its acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. One way it hopes to do that? By improving its maps applications to better compete against Google's.
View ArticleAndroid 4.4 to be officially called KitKat
The next version of Android will be called KitKat after the Nestle chocolate bar, and not Key Lime Pie, as was predicted for months, Google said Tuesday.
View ArticleEMC optimizes VNX hybrid array for flash
EMC's VNX hybrid storage line is now built for flash first, with revamped software that can take full advantage of multicore processors, producing what the company calls a major boost in performance.
View ArticleQualcomm to ship Toq smartwatch with Mirasol display in Q4
Qualcomm on Wednesday announced its own smartwatch that will have a low-power Mirasol display and be compatible with Android mobile devices.
View ArticleMicrosoft’s $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected
The deal gives Microsoft Nokia’s global handset engineering, manufacturing, sales and distribution business; the family of Windows-Phone-powered Lumia smartphones; a war chest of 8,500 Lumia and Asha...
View ArticleWith new iPhone 5s, Apple launches the 64-bit smartphone war
The 64-bit smartphone clash has been joined between rivals Apple and Samsung. But will everyday smartphone buyers even care, much less notice?
View ArticlePC satisfaction scores dip as customers drift to tablets
The jarring combination of Microsoft's radical reinvention of Windows with old-style hardware caused the average satisfaction score of PC makers to slip in the last year, a pollster said today.
View ArticleJolla Sailfish OS to support Android hardware, apps
Finnish smartphone startup Jolla has announced that its Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile platform will be both software and hardware compatible with Android.
View ArticleApple’s 64-bit A7 is no gimmick
When Apple announced the iPhone 5s would be powered by a new 64-bit processor, the A7, many responded with a shrug. Conventional wisdom had it that 64-bitness in a mobile processor had no particular...
View ArticleSymantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess
The cyber criminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by...
View ArticleLG follows Samsung, unveils curved-screen phone with ‘self-healing’ covering
LG is flexing its muscle in smartphone technology with a new handset that boasts a curved touchscreen, along with a special "self healing" technology that the company claims can prevent scratches on...
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