The biggest knock against Blu-ray from the beginning has been price, but that hasn’t stopped manufacturers from releasing new, expensive Blu-ray players. Although Denon’s new Blu-ray player, the DVD-1800BD, is the least-expensive model in the company’s line, its $750 price tag means only serious home theater enthusiasts …
Alcatel-Lucent scored a victory Tuesday when the U.S. International Trade Commission rebuffed a patent infringement claim brought by Microsoft.
The commission reversed an earlier ruling by an ITC administrative law judge, who found Alcatel-Lucent had violated one of four patents that Microsoft had sued over.
The Commission ruled that …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is sticking to the company line of give-me-a-piece-of-Yahoo-but-not-the-whole-enchilada.
That was the word he conveyed while in Israel to mark the opening of a new R&D facility, according to a Reuters report.
Ballmer’s comments on Wednesday basically reiterated the stance the company took Sunday, …
With a 47.9 percent stake in Symbian, the leading mobile platform that it co-founded in 1998 and which today powers some 206 million mobile phones, Nokia has long championed it at the expense of rival platforms such as Linux.
No longer.
The mobile-phone maker is increasingly selecting Linux for Internet-enabled mobile devices, with its CFO declaring of Linux, “It’s going to be terribly important.”
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Time Warner has agreed to separate from its cable division, the company said Wednesday.
As part of the separation, Time Warner Cable has declared a one-time dividend of about $10.9 billion to stockholders, $9.25 billion of which will go to Time Warner.
“Separating the two companies…will help …
Wednesday’s beta release of a software development kit for Opera widgets brings the Norwegian company one step closer to its lofty goal of world browser domination.
This Opera widget could appear on your laptop, desktop, or Wii.
(Credit: Opera Software)
Opera Software if offering the SDK for widget authors …
Regal Entertainment Group, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with Real D to upgrade 1,500 screens with 3D technology.
The Regal deal is the largest commitment to 3D by any theater chain, the companies said, raising the number of screens running …
Facebook has just published new photos and descriptions of its impending profile redesign to its Facebook Profile Previews page.
The new profile design will, as we have known for a while, be centered on tabs. Profiles will be broken off into five separate tabs: Feed, Info, Wall, Photos, and Applications. Facebook’s latest round of screenshots seems to indicate that users will also have the ability to add additional tabs, with the inclusion of a plus sign to the right of the Applications tab.
(Credit: Facebook)Breaking down information into tabs will make the new Facebook profiles seem far less cluttered–a growing concern with users, especially with the addition of applications–and improve load times. A major change included in this release will be the publisher box.
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Clearspring Technologies, a technology platform for syndicating and tracking widgets, has raised $18 million in a third round of funding from New Enterprise Associates and Novak Biddle Venture Partners, among others.
The Virginia-based company, which was founded in 2004, has previously brought in an estimated $18 million in private financing. …
NEW YORK–Nearly six months after its next generation of music phones hit the market in Europe, Nokia is finally bringing the latest XpressMusic phones to the U.S.
T-Mobile USA on Tuesday unveiled the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone, a slim, music-playing handset, at a party here that featured specialty cocktails …