It's taken for granted these days that if you run a business, you need to be on Facebook. And while any monkey can click the "Create Page" button, it takes a smart strategy to wind up with the kind of Facebook numbers that are truly brag-worthy.Of course, it doesn't hurt...
Disclosure: I used to work with Yahoo in my two years as an editor for the website Tecca. While I was never on Yahoo's payroll, our companies had a close content partnership and some leadership overlap. (It's complicated.)Yahoo is a strange, many-headed beast. Not often commended for its corporate vision,...
Apple, Google and Intel are being sued for striking a secret agreement among themselves not to poach employees from each other. Which is, um, how should we put this? Not kosher? "Likely illegal," is how Ed Colligan, former CEO of Palm, described it when they asked him to join the devil's...
In September, Microsoft filed a patent application for what was essentially a holodeck. Now, that technology is a step further to becoming reality.At the Consumer Electronics Show, people got a glimpse of a product Microsoft calls "Illumiroom," which the company describes "peripheral projected illusions for interactive experiences." Microsoft Research posted a...
Smartphone maker HTC had a down year in 2012. That's not news, the company's troubles have been well documented. Samsung, the playground bully of the mobile industry, basically beat up HTC and stole its lunch money. Apple, that conniving and clever older sister, boxed HTC in to a corner and...
People certainly do not waste any time. It's the first full workday of 2013 and as the world wakes up from its collective holiday season coma, the rumor cycle has started spinning in full gear. The hype target everybody is shooting for? Apple, of course. Apple rumors are the lifeblood of...
It seems like every year, that darned rodent in Punxsutawney, Pa., predicts six more weeks of winter. Never mind the fact that Groundhog Day is technically six weeks before the official start of spring. We hail Punxsutawney Phil as the seer of seers, prognosticator of prognosticators. How can you not...
Patent WarsIt is impossible to do a year-end review of the mobile ecosystem and not mention the thermonuclear patent wars. Patents are the story of the year in mobile - with billion dollar lawsuits, injunctions, cease-and-desist letters and patent trolls all marching us down the road to chaos. Samsung and...
Microsoft may be fined as early as January 2013 by the European Union for its failure to obey an earlier agreement to offer users a "browser choice" in Windows 7.The EU antitrust regulators are close to a decision that would be one of the first issued in 2013, EU antitrust...
2012 was a big year in mobile. We have never seen a year like this where there were so many quality devices from so many disparate suppliers all competing for the interest of consumers and enterprises. What were the best of the best? We rank the top 10 smartphones and...
In a column for PCMag.com, well-known analyst Tim Bajarin argued Monday that Microsoft has "betrayed" its hardware partners with the launch of its Surface tablet, and that it should abandon its infant hardware business. It's a strange, protectionist argument mired in the past. And it's dead wrong.Bajarin's argument can be...
Radio will never be the same. Like books, magazines, music and just about every other mass medium you can think of, the age-old format is being transformed by the Internet, mobile technology and a few very smart organizations. We don't know exactly what radio will look like in 20 years...
In a sign that Apple may be ready to drop its insane jihad against Android handset makers, Apple and HTC have announced they are dropping all legal claims against one another, ending a bitter two-year court battle that has involved numerous lawsuits in courts around the world.Apple and HTC have...
Since 2010 Apple has been suing everybody in sight for allegedly infringing on its intellectual property. Apple hasn't just been suing its rivals but also portraying itself as a beacon of innovation and depicting its rivals as cloners and copycats -- thieves, basically.So perhaps there is some satisfaction in seeing...
By many accounts, HTC is the third best smartphone manufacturer in the world. It creates quality devices that consumers like and can go toe-to-toe with anything that rivals Samsung, Apple, Motorola or Nokia throw at it. Yet HTC is slowly dying. As the company's profits are whittled away, the likes...
Friday, Microsoft launched two of its first apps truly optimized for touch and Windows 8, including the first use of its “radial menu” for Microsoft OneNote.Both OneNote and Lync are available in the Windows Store, Microsoft said Friday in a blog post. While Windows RT includes OneNote, it does not include...
Twenty-one years ago, Microsoft debuted the first Surface tablet, complete with handwriting recognition and gestures. It wasn’t called the Surface then. In fact, the prototype tablet that a young, charming Bill Gates showed off was an unnamed prototype from NCR running Windows 3.1.In a video lost among the millions on YouTube,...
Earlier this year, a judge in the United Kingdom awarded a rare gift to Samsung in its global patent battle against Apple. The judge ruled that Samsung did not infringe on Apple’s design patents and offered a strange remedy: Apple must publically apologize to Samsung in prominent news publications in...
Point-and-shoot cameras have been a hit with consumers for more than a century, and they keep getting better. But it doesn't matter, they're doomed anyway. Even awesome image quality and all the features in the world can't save them from the mighty smartphone.The Basics"You press the button, we do the...
9:21: John Paul Titlow: We've got 40 minutes to go, and still the last-minute leaks and rumors are churning. What has been confirmed is that we'll be getting the iPhone 5 (by that name), new iPods and an iTunes update. If history is any indication, they should be pushing out...
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