Wanted: More judges like U.S. District Judge William Alsup.
Alsup is presiding over the currently ongoing lawsuit between Google and Oracle over the former’s Android OS—which the latter says infringes on their Java patents—and is demonstrating a refreshing attitude towards both companies’ attempts to argue their case.
Alsup …
If the white iPhone 4’s eventual arrival left you wanting for more rumors about pale-skinned Apple products, I’ve got good news: You may now start speculating about a white iPod Touch instead.
Citing “industry checks” by Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple Insider reports that Apple has placed orders for the white iPod …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
One of the many aspects of the technology industry I have to study as an industry analyst is the macro-economic trends. With that in mind, I have …
Bugs, and plenty of ’em—that’s the gist of a blog note by an Adobe senior product manager titled “Lion Tamers,” which links to a list of known Adobe product issues with Apple’s latest and greatest. Mac OS X 10.7 Lion just hit the airwaves Wednesday, and I mean literally—the only way to get a copy is by downloading it via Apple’s Mac …
A website that maps crowd-sourced data in a disaster. A digital character that giggles when you poke his belly. And a device that allows men to menstruate.
Those are just a few of the items that will go on display at Talk To Me, the Museum of Modern Art’s latest tech-focused show in New York City this Sunday. Featuring roughly 200 …
It only took about seven months, but Google’s Nexus S smartphone is finally getting support for AT&T’s network and a big fat subsidy to boot.
Starting July 24, you can get the Nexus S, with untainted Android 2.3, at Best Buy for $99.99 with a two-year contract. The phone has a 4-inch gently-curved display, 1 GHz processor, 5-megapixel …
What’s the point of a smartphone?
If you answered “To make calls,” then congratulations: You’re in the minority. A new survey from social communications company CloudTalk has found that making calls is only the fourth most popular activity for smartphone owners… and one that only 43% of Americans actually engage in.
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Nokia has erased any doubt that it’ll launch its first Windows Phone in 2011.
This is My Next confirmed the news with Nokia spokesman Ray Haddow, which is good, because you might not get the message from CEO Stephen Elop’s corporatespeak: “Step by step, beginning this year, we plan to have a sequence of concentrated product launches …
Good news for anyone who makes phone calls from inside Gmail – now you can make or receive multiple calls at once. Oh, wait. Excuse me.
Hi Mum. Are you? That’s great. Well actually I’m trying to write something for Techland at the moment. Is that the dog barking? Well how did it get in there in the first place? Wait. Hold on, …
It’s the report that, literally, people didn’t want you to see. A study on the effects of movie piracy sites on their users and the industry at large has been reportedly been locked away “in the poison cupboard” because it suggested that conventional wisdom had it all wrong—pirates actually ended up spending more money on movie …
So you’ve got Lion, or maybe you don’t, because you’re still downloading it. It’s over 4GB after all, and trying to grab it over the freebie Wi-Fi connection at the coffee shop down the street was, you know, maybe not your finest moment.
But let’s say you’ve managed to pull it down, somehow, and as Adele might say, you’re rolling in …
One of the other Apple announcements of recent days is the opening of a new kind of App Store for corporate customers, allowing them access to a simple system for buying apps in bulk and distributing them among employees and devices.
The Volume Purchase store was announced a couple of weeks ago, but finally went live yesterday …
