| Cisco Posts Better-Than-Expected Profit Cisco Systems , the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment, reported higher-than-expected earnings for its most recent quarter, reflecting strong demand from businesses for its... | |
| State of the Art: Android Phones Go on a Power Trip - State of the Art There are dozens of Android phones, and newer, better ones appear every few months. Google subscribes to the Microsoft Windows scheme: write the software, and let other companies build the... |
| Apps to Help Singles Flirt Their Way to Romance The Web abounds with matchmaking sites like Match.com, eHarmony, Jazzed and Grindr, and all those services have apps for people who want to arrange dates... |
| Gadgetwise Blog: How Sonos Outshines Apple in Home Audio Sonos should have been roadkill beneath Apple's tires.The Santa Barbara, Calif., start-up was formed by a software entrepreneur, John MacFarlane, in 2002 with a plan to reinvent the home stereo... |
| Cisco Beats Street's Earnings Estimates, Boosts Dividend ] posted fiscal second-quarter earnings excluding items of 47 cents per share, up from 37 cents per share in the year-earlier period. Net income grew to $2.2 billion from $1.5 billion last year.... |
| Is Apple Coming to Sam’s Club Stores? The report, which cites unnamed sources for the information, said the move would expand an existing partnership between the two retailers. Sam's Club already sells... |
| Don’t believe the hype - it's not a cyber-war Commentary - Anonymous may be falling victim to their very name. Because of it, it allows them the freedom to become larger than they otherwise could independently - while also protecting them from... |
| Extortion failed - Anonymous posts Symantec source code Anonymous activists have released source code for Symantec's PCAnywhere onto the Pirate Bay file-sharing website after an extortion attempt apparently... |
| Groupon stock plunges on net loss NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Welcome to the big leagues, Groupon. Shareholders punished the stock in after-hours trading Wednesday after the daily deals site posted a surprise loss for its first quarter as... |
| 11 streaming services that want to take Netflix's crown FORTUNE -- Netflix isn't the only the web streaming service out there. As consumers migrate from physical to digital media, more companies are rushing to meet their needs. Apple has a robust... |
| Marilyn Monroe 'officially' joins Twitter Authentic Brands Group, the owners of Marilyn Monroe's estates, hope the actress' verified Twitter feed will fuel more interest in the actress'... |
| Facebook already went public, you weren't invited Facebook has ample access to capital and it's traded more shares per month than hundreds of Nasdaq-listed companies. Indeed, the de facto Facebook IPO happened long ago. By Joshua Brown,... |
| Sprint sells 1.8 million iPhones but posts huge loss Fortune 500 ) last quarter as the third national carrier to sell Apple's iconic smartphone, and the company announced Wednesday that it sold a better-than-expected 1.8 million iPhones over the... |
| Computer Sciences Soars as Lawrie Named CEO: Washington Mover Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Computer Sciences Corp., a technology contractor for governments and companies, rose the most in three decades after naming Mike Lawrie its next chief executive officer as it... |
| Sprint’s Widening Loss Signals IPhone Not Helping Turnaround Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. reported widening losses for the first quarter it offered the Apple Inc. iPhone, signaling the best-selling device may not be helping Chief Executive Officer... |
| Rambus Rises After Reaching Patent Settlement With Nvidia Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Rambus Inc., a memory-chip designer that gets most of its revenue from royalties, rose the most in 1 1/2 months after reaching a patent agreement with Nvidia Corp., ending a... |
| Groupon Has Fourth-Quarter Loss on Move to Low-Margin Businesses Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Groupon Inc., the largest daily-deal site, had a fourth-quarter loss after an expansion into lower- margin businesses sapped profitability during its first period as a publicly... |
| $900 Lumia 800 Bundle: Why It's Destined for Failure Just about a year ago, Nokia announced it would be partnering with Microsoft to deliver Nokia-branded Windows Phones. The plan was to jumpstart Microsoft’s fledgling smartphone platform, and... |
| FBI Puts Cloud Providers on Notice Over Security Rules The FBI is taking a tough line on cloud vendors looking to do business with U.S. law enforcement agencies, saying Tuesday that there would be no compromise in its new rule that all such... |
| Google launches Chrome for Android Beta , the Chrome web browser will be available in "select countries and languages" for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Chrome for Android allows users to access the... |
| Acer sues former CEO for taking a job at Lenovo , Acer said that it has initiated legal action against Gianfranco Lanci in Italy, his home country, for allegedly violating non-compete clauses in his contract with the firm. Acer said he violated... |
| Police open regional e-crime hubs are looking to strengthen their anti e-crime resources with the opening of three facilities in the North and Midlands. The government has pledged £650m to help fight cybercrime, which is... |
| Nvidia and Rambus bury the hatchet on patents , and today serial litigator Rambus said it had managed to get Nividia to toe its line. "This is an important license agreement as it settles our differences and allows us to move forward with... |
| Google says it will fairly license Motorola's patents Google has acknoledged the concerns of the European Commission (EC) by sending out letters to several standards organisations saying it will fairly license Motorola Mobility's patents should the... |
| Blue photon discovery offers huge solar efficiency boost could be a thing of the past if Cambridge researchers can successfully bring new high efficiency cells out from the lab and onto our roofs. A significant jump in efficiency has been made that could... |
| Home Office urged for transparency on spyware industry and Privacy International showed that even some rather surprising attendees, such as the Strathclyde Police and The US Fish and Wildlife Service, also turn up - paying over a thousand dollars per... |
| Nerve probe controls cyborg moth in flight Watch a cyborg moth respond to stimulation Half-moth, half machine, a new generation of remote-controlled insects could one day be used as... |
| Spammers impersonate well-known developers to publish rogue apps on Android Market Spammers are impersonating well-known Android software developers in order to distribute rogue apps through the official Android Market. Security researchers from antivirus firm Trend... |
| Airvana sues Ericsson over femtocell technology lawsuit (PDF) filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Femtocells like those Airvana developed extend capacity and coverage of mobile networks, which are under increasing strain. The... |
| Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates online Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow. Browsers currently check if a website's SSL... |
| Free Web tool consolidates data on code vulnerabilities open source Web application that lets them consolidate software vulnerability data from a range of scanning and test tools. With a centralized view, and reporting and management tools, ThreadFix... |
| Americas, Africa and Asia head for 'supercontinent' smashup The future supercontinent, "Amasia," described in the journal Nature on Wednesday, will encompass Asia, Africa and the Americas. Driven by continental drift, the assemblies of such "supercontinents,"... |
| Rambus, Nvidia settle lawsuits, sign IC patent deal Rambus and Nvidia have settled past lawsuits and signed a patent agreement covering a broad range of integrated circuit products, Rambus said on Wednesday. Under the patent agreement, Nvidia will be... |
| Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred. If successfully translated to a storage product, the... |
| Ultrabook prices come tumbling down Is the bloom already off the Ultrabook marketing rose? With little redeeming value and Intel Ivy Bridge processors coming, Ultrabook prices have hit the... |
| Weave open-source data visualization offers power, flexibility Weave -- and more are on the way. Three years in development so far and still in beta, Weave is designed so government agencies, non-profits, and corporate users can offer the public an easy-to-use... |
| Groupon reports quarterly net loss, shares drop Groupon, unveiling its first results as a public company, said its fourth-quarter net loss attributable to common stockholders was $42.7 million, or 8 cents a share. That compares to a loss of $378.6... |
| Cisco Q2 results beat estimates, ups dividend (Reuters) - Network equipment maker Systems Inc said second quarter earnings and revenue beat average estimates, leading it to increase its... |
| Google to pledge not to favor Motorola over rivals BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google will pledge to license on fair and reasonable terms the patents it acquires through buying Motorola Mobility, said a person familiar with the matter, in a bid to allay... |
| Hungarian town suffers as Nokia announces big layoffs KOMAROM, Hungary (Reuters) - Veronika Szalai had just graduated from elementary school when Nokia, the Finnish phone maker, opened a factory by the Danube in Komarom. The 27-year-old, who has worked... |
| Electronic Arts' CFO leaves for Polycom Feb 8 - Electronic Arts Inc's chief financial officer is leaving the video game publisher to take a post at communications company Polycom Inc, both companies said in statements on... |
| Akamai Q4 beats as demand for online content soars (Reuters) - Internet content delivery company Akamai Technologies Inc posted a fourth-quarter profit above analysts' expectations, helped by growing demand for online content, sending its shares... |
| CNN suspends Roland Martin over anti-gay tweets LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cable TV network CNN said on Wednesday it has suspended commentator Roland Martin over a series of Twitter remarks during the Super Bowl game that offended America's gay... |
| Kaspersky Lab's sales growth slowed in 2011 CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world's No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting... |
| Cisco turns in a winning quarter Networking giant Cisco Systems today reported a better-than-expected fiscal second quarter and said its renewed focus is paying off. Cisco reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $2.2 billion, or... |
| Author Solutions' dances into the DIY e-book market with Booktango . Whether Booktango should be called an "e-book generating app" or "self-publishing platform" is hard to say, but it basically provides a free and simple way to upload your... |
| Is it OK to have a boring laptop? New, Cool Laptop . I've been encouraging forward-thinking laptop design, and yet I understand that laptops, in an age of ever-smaller, ever-cooler smart devices, just might for many be destined... |
| On the Web, latest 'Bourne' trailer goes boom (Credit: NBC Universal) The Web is getting re-Bourne today, as in Jason Bourne. NBC Universal released the trailer for the "Bourne Legacy," the latest installment in the popular... |
| Zombie chocolates: Share the love and braaaaains (Credit: ThinkGeek) Geek love can be a challenge on Valentine's Day. Roses are too old-fashioned, and chocolates are dull--unless they happen to be ThinkGeek's zombie head chocolates. ... |
| Nvidia, Rambus settle patent dispute Nvidia and Rambus have settled a longstanding patent license dispute. The agreement covers a "broad range" of chip products offered by Nvidia and settles all outstanding claims, including... |