We work in an industry with its own language–acronyms.
A lot of them come and go or are so esoteric that few people in industry even know about them. I’m hopeful that a standard I’m tracking won’t fall into one of these buckets. It is called the …
Alltel, the largest rural cell phone provider in the U.S., plans to use the same technology to build its 4G network that AT&T and Verizon Wireless have chosen, a move that should provide better coverage for next generation wireless users.
But don’t expect a major 4G …
(Credit: Samsung)This picture of a Samsung OLED laptop prototype raises more questions than it answers. Just how thin and light is it? Is touch-typing possible on that keyboard? Where’s the mouse pad? What’s that panel behind the display? Why is the woman pictured on the display checking
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Grand Theft Auto: Atlanta, anyone?
That title may not be far off, if the state of Georgia gets its way. Its latest goal, in the name of economic development, is to become the video game production capital of the United States.
Sonny Purdue, governor, Georgia
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Orange, France Telecom’s mobile provider, will whisk the iPhone into at least 10 more European, Middle Eastern, and African countries.
The iPhone is becoming quite the world traveler.
The deal with Apple, announced Friday, will bring the popular device later this year into Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, …
Editors’ note: This post was updated Friday, May 16, at 5:50 a.m. to include a letter sent to Yahoo executives concerning the proxy fight. The letters have been edited for readability.
With billionaire investor Carl Icahn launching a proxy fight Thursday to unseat Yahoo’s board of directors, …
Is the end of the Intel-AMD duopoly nigh? Via Technologies is hoping this may be the case when it announces the “Isaiah” processor later this month.
Via Isaiah processor is targeted at mainstream notebooks and desktops; top: Isaiah processor; bottom: $398 15-inch Everex gBook
(Credit: Via, Wal-Mart)
The company’s …
Google Translate just got more useful for a Prague citizen visiting India.
The online translation function now can understand 10 more languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Swedish. That brings the total to 23 languages, Google said in a blog posting Thursday.
In addition, Google …
A major Yahoo investor weighed in late Wednesday with support for Carl Icahn’s initiative to unseat Yahoo’s board, signaling yet another salvo to be fired in the coming weeks as the proxy fight between Icahn and Yahoo heats up.
Paulson & Co., which owns 50 million Yahoo shares …
People attending the Last HOPE hacker conference in New York City this July will be getting more than just an agenda and badge when they check in.
(Credit: The Last Hope)The badges will have electronic tracking devices, using radio frequency identification technology, that will be tracking their movements throughout …