It’s taken 100 years, but IBM has appointed its first female CEO. Virginia “Ginni” Rometty will officially take the reigns on January 1, 2012, replacing Sam Palmisano, who’s been at the helm since 2002. At age 60, Palmisano is stepping down but will remain chairman of IBM’s board of directors.
Rometty, 54, joined IBM in 1981 as a …
It’s true—Dropbox and HTC are teaming up to give users 5GB of free space. Starting now, anyone running Sense 3.5 will get an additional 3GB of space in their Dropbox account, on top of the free 2GB that everyone gets when signing up.
Of course, the number of people who are actually using Sense 3.5 is limited; it currently only runs on …
When Apple switched to Intel chips back in 2006, reality almost imploded, and when Steve Jobs launched the iPad without an Intel microprocessor, you could almost feel the ripples through the time-space continuum. What you probably didn’t know, is that the iPad almost had an Intel chip under the hood.
And here’s the kicker: The guy …
With all the furor over Groupon’s IPO offering, it isn’t the biggest surprise to discover that many businesses have been watching the story unfold intently. What might be more of a surprise is discovering that one of those businesses is social gaming company Zynga, who’ve been waiting to see whether or not it goes successfully enough for …
Forget about your friends for a second, and start getting more community-minded; a new social network is much more interested in where you live, and who your neighbors are.
Nextdoor is a new social networking site launching to the public today, with a twist. Because, as founder Nirav Tolia told All Things D, “your neighbors and friends …
Tablet devices aren’t just changing the amount of information that users read, they’re also changing the kinds of information, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism about the online habits of tablet users.
The study, carried out in association with the Economist Group, established …
Before there was Arnold (or AH-nuld), there were probably things like this: robots that can walk without sensors or other special means of propulsion. What would it say if it could talk? Probably “Look ma, no motors or electricity!”
The Center Lab at the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan put what amounts to robo-thighs, calves …
Eight months ago, Nokia bet its future on Microsoft, abandoning other smartphone efforts so it could create Windows Phones instead. Now, we’re seeing the first fruits of that strategy shift in Nokia’s Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.
The Lumia 800 is the star of this show, with a gently curved polycarbonate frame, a 1.4 GHz processor and an …
After watching Netflix stock take another tumble yesterday, falling a further 35% as analysts suggested selling and abandoning the company for dead, I found myself wondering, are things really that bad for Netflix? So, I looked back at the company’s recent past on the NASDAQ index, and found… Yeah, they’re kind of horrific. Want to see …
The Apple patent war is going to get a little nastier. We’ve all heard about the patent wars between Apple and Samsung, but Apple now owns the “slide to unlock” patent, available on smartphones almost everywhere.
In particular, Android devices—phones and tablets alike—are running the risk of being sued by Apple for patent …
Apparently, not only is Big Brother watching you, he also really would rather that you weren’t watching him online, thank you very much. According to Google’s most recent transparency report, the first half of 2011 saw a 70% rise in requests from U.S. government and law enforcement to remove videos from YouTube, as well as a 29% rise in …
Whispers of an Apple-branded television set have been popping up since the beginning of human history (yes, that long), with even the late Steve Jobs tipping his hand to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, informing him that he’d “finally cracked” the secret to an Apple television set:
“I’d like to create an integrated television set
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