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Facebook will likely make its initial public offering in May and could be valued as high as US$100 billion, according to All Things D The social networking giant boasts 800 million users worldwide and is expected to hit 1 billion in August, according to iCrossing projections. It's reportedly expected to raise about $10 billion in the IPO....
Facebook is enhancing its music listening options by launching Listening With Friends, a feature that will let Facebook friends listen to music together via chat As the feature rolls out to all of Facebook's 800 million users over the next few weeks, a music note will appear next to a user's name in the chat list if he or she is listening to a song...
Lenovo unveiled its IdeaPad Yoga recently at CES, showing off a notebook with a 360 degree hinge designed to be used in a variety of ways in addition to the conventional laptop style. ...
Gaming equipment maker Razer has shown a prototype hybrid PC/tablet gaming device design at the Consumer Electronics Show. The device, presently dubbed "Project Fiona," will be a way to combine control and touch elements to create a unique gaming experience, according to the company The prototype is designed to be able to play hardcore PC games and...
AT&T on Monday announced a new API platform and app store, called "AppCenter." The online store will be opened later this year and will feature HTML5 software The store will sell wares for Android phones and iPhones. Unlike the Android Market or Apple's App Store, the platform will be similar to a magazine-like collection of stories, according to A...
AT&T on Monday announced a new API platform and app store, called "AppCenter." The online store will be opened later this year and will feature HTML5 software The store will sell wares for Android phones and iPhones. Unlike the Android Market or Apple's App Store, the platform will be similar to a magazine-like collection of stories, according to A...
Google is not giving up on its dreams to become a TV star. The company announced Thursday it added LG to its growing list of television partners that will debut hardware running an upgraded version of Google TV at the Consumer Electronics Show next week in Las Vegas The search giant's first run at TV, with partnerships with Sony, Intel and Logitech...
Kodak, the 131-year-old photographic equipment company that has seen its stock value tumble with the advent of digital imagery, is selling off its patents to avoid a Chapter 11 filing, according to The Wall Street Journal The company, once the unequivocal leader for photographic film, helped invent the digital camera in 1975 but was unable to capit...
Microsoft celebrated the demise of Internet Explorer 6 on Tuesday after usage estimates put the Web browser's marketshare at under 1 percent in the U.S Microsoft was as happy as anyone to see the browser go. The company has been running a kill campaign for IE6 for years, with Microsoft executive Amy Bazdukas stating in 2009 that "friends don't let ...
A group of mathematicians turned to Twitter to gauge global happiness for 2011, and it seems the last 12 months have not been humanity's cheeriest. The team from the University of Vermont gathered 4.6 billion Twitter messages from Twitter's 33 million users from around the world. Starting in September 2008, the mathematicians, led by Peter Dodds, ...
Facing a deadline from its partner Sprint, LightSquared filed a motion Tuesday asking FCC officials to confirm the company's right to use the airwaves, despite data that suggest its operations could interfere with global-positioning systems Any interference with GPS devices is a flaw within GPS technology, not LightSquared technology, the company c...
AT&T has put an end to its $39 billion quest to take over T-Mobile Monday, announcing that it will decline to challenge the FCC's claims that the deal would lead to fewer consumer choices, poor service and higher prices The proposed deal with T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom, announced in March, was supposed to increase the company's ab...
AT&T has put an end to its $39 billion quest to take over T-Mobile Monday, announcing that it will decline to challenge the FCC's claims that the deal would lead to fewer consumer choices, poor service and higher prices The proposed deal with T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom, announced in March, was supposed to increase the company's ab...
In a response to privacy concerns over controversial software made by Carrier IQ, wireless provider Sprint has announced it will disable the data collection tool on its handsets Carrier IQ software is designed to be installed in handsets to give wireless carriers information about how their networks are being used. However, a 17-minute video upload...
Research In Motion posted its third-quarter earnings data on Thursday, reporting a 71 percent drop in net income and revealing that its long-awaited next-generation smartphone platform will arrive later than expected The company reported revenue of US$5.2 billion, up 24 percent from last quarter but still under Wall Street expectations. It also dis...
Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, the first phone to run Android Ice Cream Sandwich, will be available in the U.S. starting Thursday from Verizon. The 4G LTE phone sells for US$299.99 with a two-year plan. There are 2GB, 5GB and 10GB data plans starting at $30, although for a limited time through the holidays customers can get double data for the same month...
Netflix shares began perking up Monday after a report from DealReporter suggested that Verizon is looking into acquiring the DVD and streaming service to kick-start a video offering of its own News from Bloomberg on Tuesday morning further intensified the rumor, which arose less than week after Reuters reported that Verizon was planning to get into...
Google showed off the results of its Native Client SDK at an in-house event recently, highlighting some of the ways early adopters such as Square Enix, Unity Technologies and Bungie have used the Web development technology Google originally launched the Native Client SDK in betatoward the end of last summer in an effort to integrate Web-building to...
Google's new aggregated media app, Google Currents, launched Thursday with about 150 media partners. The system allows users to choose the content they want and arrange it as their own "social magazine" on a tablet or mobile device....
Amazon is planning to offer a limited-time discount for shoppers who use its free mobile Price Check app in brick-and-mortar stores. If the customer uses the app to check the price on an item in a store, then buys the item through Amazon rather than at the store, an additional discount is applied. The Price Check app uses location-based services t...
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