By: Nicholas Kolakowski Research In Motion’s next Curve will be touch-screen only, according to specs leaked onto a BlackBerry rumor blog. The Canadian company, currently fighting to maintain its share of the smartphone market in the face of fierce competition from the Apple iPhone and Google Android, stays firmly tight-lipped about news of upcoming products. During [...]
By: Nicholas Kolakowski Apple’s iPad will host a tablet-only newspaper created by News Corp starting Feb. 2, according to an invitation circulating among media. That digital publication, the Daily, will cost 99 cents per week. According to Reuters, the original Jan. 19 unveiling date was scrubbed “because of technical glitches.” News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple Vice President [...]
By: Nicholas Kolakowski So, how many Windows Phone 7 devices have sold to consumers? That’s the multibillion-dollar question without an official answer. During this January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Microsoft executive told eWEEK that the company had never made a regular habit of releasing comprehensive sales numbers for Windows Mobile, the current smartphone platform’s [...]
By: Don Reisinger Apple’s iPhone is scheduled to make its way to Verizon’s network on Feb. 10, ending the exclusive deal that Apple had in place with AT&T for more than two years. That day will be an important one for both current and future Verizon customers. It will also be a landmark day for Apple as [...]
By: Brian Prince Google has thrown its own hat into the ring in efforts to address privacy concerns related to online behavioral tracking. Roughly 24 hours after Mozilla pitched its idea for a “Do Not Track” mechanism for Firefox, Google announced an extension for the Google Chrome browser that will allow users to permanently opt out of being tracked online [...]
By: Brian Prince Malware threats, Facebook privacy and criminal charges all made their way into various security stories in the past week. The week started out with another battle tied to privacy and security on Facebook, this time stemming from the social network’s decision to allow applications to access users’ mobile phone and address information. Facebook eventually backed down, [...]
By: Clint Boulton Google confirmed it is preparing a prepaid deals program that would compete with local deals giant Groupon, which the search engine failed to acquire late last year. Mashable broke the news Jan. 20, citing confidential sources. Normally spoken word sourcing beckons Google to respond with its “will not comment on rumors or speculation” [...]
By: Michelle Maisto Curious about the WebOS-running devices that Hewlett-Packard is expected to introduce at its Feb. 9 event? According to sources trusted by Engadget, a few smartphones can be expected, along with two tablets — the “Topaz” and the more petite “Opal.” In a Jan. 19 report, the tech site offered new, and completely unconfirmed, details about the [...]
By: Michelle Maisto Apple announced record sales of iPads, iPhones and Macs, as well as its highest-ever earnings and revenue, during a Jan. 18 conference call announcing the results of its fiscal 2011 first quarter, which closed Christmas Day. “We had a phenomenal holiday quarter,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement released in advance of [...]
THE MERCURY T750 WORKS IN CONCERT WITH THE COMPANY’S T730 APPLIANCES DEPLOYED AT BRANCH-OFFICE SITES. Talari Networks announced the addition of the Mercury T750 appliance to its family of adaptive private-networking products for WAN Virtualization. Aimed at midsized enterprises with up to 24 remote sites, the T750 is designed to provide business-class (99.99 percent or [...]
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