Individual investors are unlikely to be able to buy Facebook shares before they start trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Is Apple CEO Tim Cook Right? Are Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Dead in the Water?
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the idea of a laptop-tablet hybrid is tantamount to shoving a toaster into a refrigerator. It’s a clever, sound-bite-y analogy. It’s also wrongheaded. But before we go there, let’s give Cook’s comments the …
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Giant 3.2 Billion-Pixel Digital Camera Gets a Step Closer to Construction
The 22.3-megapixel CMOS sensor on Canon’s new EOS 5D Mark III is no joke — except when compared to the hardware in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera. The 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera is meant to “capture the …
Flickr Gets Faster Drag-and-Drop Uploader, Larger Upload Limits
Remember Flickr? It was the site everyone used to store their photos on before Facebook and Instagram (now the same company) became the default locations for photos on the web.
Recently, however, Flickr has been taking steps …
Report: Microsoft to Unveil Spotify-like Music Service
We come here today to pre-mourn the impending loss of Zune, a music service you may or may not remember. In its place, Microsoft is apparently planning to unveil a new streaming music service at the E3 conference in June, …
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Get Ready for June 11, iPhone and iPad Owners
This may be a minority viewpoint — in fact, I’m positive it’s a minority viewpoint — but I get far more excited about new versions of Apple’s iOS than I do about new iPhones and iPads. There’s only so much Apple can do to …
Can James Cameron — or Anyone — Really Mine Asteroids?
Time was, incredibly rich guys bought sports teams. It was fun, it was affordable (by incredibly rich guy standards, at least) and it kept them off the streets. But going to the Super Bowl isn’t enough anymore. For today’s …
Facebook Phone Rumor Rises from the Grave
There is no Facebook phone, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has insisted time after time. But the rumor mill won’t listen, and now DigiTimes reports that HTC is working on the fabled device.
HTC is developing a “customized smartphone in …
Why Apple Is Winning: Innovation, Opportunity and Execution
Thanks to a combination of anticipation and luck, Apple — which nearly went bankrupt before the last tech boom — is poised for even greater heights if it can continue to out-think, out-innovate and out-execute its …
Steam Native Linux Client Near? Gabe Newell Trashes Windows 8?
If you’re a Linux buff, you already know how to get Steam working under the scrappy Unix-like operating system using intermediary connectors like Wine, but as any Wine user knows, game performance generally suffers. What about a …
Netflix Horror Show: The Real Reason Shares Plunged 17%
As a purely financial matter, Netflix’s quarterly report should not have precipitated the absolute shellacking that the company’s stock suffered after-hours Monday, wiping out about $1 billion in shareholder equity.
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