As you may have heard, Verizon's Motorola-made Droid smartphone goes on sale today. It's all anybody can talk about, and arguably the most anticipated new phone since, well, you know. Verizon is selling it for $199.99 after a mail-in rebate, but ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Novell Inc (NOVL.O) spurned a $2 billion takeover offer from investment fund Elliott Associates on Saturday, calling the bid inadequate and saying it undervalued the business software maker. Novell said its board had instead initiated a review ...Read More
Shares of Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, fell the most in more than two years in Nasdaq trading after it forecast sales this quarter that were less than half of analysts' estimates. Revenue in the period ending in ...Read More
We aren't exactly hopeful that the Roewe 350 will ever ship stateside, but given that our Volt pre-order is still in limbo (and we're not about to lease a Tesla Roadster), we can't help but look longingly at this gem. ...Read More
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Palm Inc., maker of the Pre smartphone, fell the most in two years after predicting sales this quarter will be less than half of Wall Street estimates, prompting some analysts to question the company's viability. Revenue in ...Read More
Yesterday's statement from Palm's CEO, lamenting how Motorola's Droid beat the Palm Pre into Verizon stores, I was reminded of a famous Marlon Brando line from "On the Waterfront." Many people know the words, even of they don't know they ...Read More
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, dropped as much as 17 percent in early U.S. trading after forecasting sales this quarter that were less than half of analysts' estimates. Revenue in the period ending in May ...Read More
Remember that Droid update that was supposed to hit today? The one that was supposed to bring Android 2.1 and all of its wonderful features? Yeah, erm, about that..
Seemingly out of the blue, messages on the Verizon employee intranet changed ...Read More
A couple of years ago I wrote about the Digitizing Line DL 3000 book scanner which is capable of scanning and digitizing about 3,000 pages an hour, or 50 pages a minute, for a mere $250,000. And it has the ...Read More
Sprint says Google's Nexus One smartphone is headed to its network, but is mum on pricing and exactly exact availability. Sprint becomes the fourth U.S. carrier to offer the Android OS phone.
Earlier this week AT&T announced it will also sell ...Read More
Handset maker HTC says it's ready to defend itself against a patent complaint filed by Apple.
Earlier this month, Apple launched legal action against HTC, alleging that the Taiwanese company had violated 20 different patents related to the Apple iPhone. HTC ...Read More
Google is working with Intel, Sony and other partners to develop Google TV, a service aimed at putting the Internet search giant's Web offerings in people's living rooms, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Google TV will combine the company's Android ...Read More
Sprint March 17 confirmed it would soon offer Google's Nexus One smartphone to its subscribers, but the wireless carrier did not say when it would begin offering the device or at what it would charge for the Google Android-based device. ...Read More
In fact, the Windows IE9 Platform Preview, as well as the final version, won't run on anything but the latest Microsoft operating systems. Users trying to run the preview code on an XP system will receive the following dialogue box: ...Read More
The SXSW show here in Austin has drawn to a close. During the last four days I?ve been listening for chatter about the new web and mobile services that are turning heads at the show. I heard lots of talk, ...Read More
Google failed in its bid to own the "Nexus One" name for its Android 2.1 smartphone, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected its application for a trademark on the moniker. That mark is currently commanded by Integra Telecom, ...Read More
No one was sure what to make of Google, a search engine, getting into the mobile phone business. It was one thing for it to make and support the Android OS, but what did Google know about smartphones? The Nexus ...Read More
Google on Tuesday started selling a version of its Nexus One smartphone that works with AT&T's 3G wireless network, joining devices including Apple's iPhone. The AT&T-compatible Nexus One is available unlocked for $529 at Google's online store. According to Bloomberg News, ...Read More
And the Apple-Google battle rages onwards. On Tuesday, Google rolled out an AT&T-compatible Nexus One, a move that puts the top-of-the-line Android smartphone on the same network as the top-selling Apple iPhone. According to a handful of early reports from ...Read More
Internet Explorer 9 marks a turning point for browsers and, perhaps, Microsoft in general. As Google races toward a stateless, hardware-agnostic operating system (based, of course, on its browser), Microsoft is firmly reestablishing the marriage between hardware and software-all in ...Read More
Buzz doesn't always equal sales. That fact is no better demonstrated than with Google's Nexus One. The phone was at the center of a flurry of coverage back in January, despite (or perhaps because of) being launched just before this ...Read More
