18. May 2012
A back room battle has been raging in recent months over the future of something very small: the nano-SIM, a smaller SIM card design that would allow phone makers to fit more hardware in their increasingly thin devices.
For the vast majority of smartphone users, the [..]
18. May 2012
Groupon is being investigated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority after the company’s stock made a sharp, upward turn Monday, before earnings beating expectations were delivered at the close of business that same day.
Finra, which watches for oddities [..]
18. May 2012
Facebook is looking mighty fine today — especially if you’re Instagram, the photo-sharing company that sold its hit mobile application to the social network one month ago for a cool $1 billion in cash and stock.
But wait. Did we say $1 billion? Scratch that[..]
18. May 2012
You know what they say about a rising tide lifting all the boats. Well, the same goes for a waning tide, apparently.
As Facebook stock dips lower and lower in early trading, at times as low as its $38 initial price from last night, other new tech stocks are also taking[..]
18. May 2012
This morning Blizzard Entertainment began emergency rolling restarts of all Diablo III servers across Battle.NET, and as of 10:30 AM CST today, Battle.NET is down entirely. At the moment we’re receiving reports from players across the USA noting that they are unab[..]
18. May 2012
Starting this afternoon we’ll we’ll be keeping our eyes toward the heavens as the historic International Space Station-bound launch of the SpaceX program streams live via NASA‘s own video portal. This launch will take place at 4:55 a.m. EDT and will be[..]
18. May 2012
Facebook opened the markets this morning, and the IPO is set to go live in just a few minutes, but the world keeps on turning. Bloomberg is reporting the Facebook is being sued for $15 billion over a claim that privacy was violated by tracking internet usage. The lawsui[..]
18. May 2012
There is a frequent commenter on my blog who always supports .CO, and he goes by the name “Robert Cline.” It seems that this person responds to almost all .CO articles, and in fact, he seems to respond to all articles on every single blog when it comes to .C[..]
18. May 2012
Facebook shares are trading publicly for the first time ever today, and at the moment, all eyes are on the NASDAQ, waiting for the first trades to come through.
As of 11:20 Eastern time, trading still had not commenced. Reports showed that the first trade would be at $[..]
18. May 2012
Looks like it’s not just the newspapers snooping on UK citizens. The government itself has reported internal breaches, according to information released in a Freedom of Information request.
Over 1,000 breaches of personal information have occurred in the last yea[..]
18. May 2012
Microsoft’s Kinect has always held out tantalizing promises. As a user interface, it brings computing devices to the edge of greatness but falls just a little short of our dreams of the Star Trek holodeck or the cool transparent, gesture-controlled computer that T[..]
18. May 2012
Kudo Tsunoda is the creative director for Kinect games at Microsoft and chief cheerleader for the company’s motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360 video game console.
Kinect has been a hit with casual game players who otherwise might have been fascinated with t[..]
18. May 2012
This week we’re feeling the firestorm that’s surrounded Verizon’s double-announcement that they’d be effectively doing away with Unlimited Data plans by the end of this summer – but the whole truth is not that simple. Where many would read [..]
18. May 2012
This week the folks at Disney have release the first full-length trailer for the upcoming TRON feature “Uprising”, complete with release date. This next chapter in the TRON universe sits between the original movie and the recent feature-length sequel TRON: L[..]
18. May 2012
Amazon is pitching companies on the idea of advertising on the welcome screen of its Kindle Fire tablet — except that it will cost a minimum of $600,000 to do so, according an AdAge report.
Even though Amazon has frustratingly not said how many Kindle Fires it ha[..]
18. May 2012
Nokia may be trying to make a comeback in the smartphone world by pairing with Microsoft and leveraging Windows Phone, but analysts are concerned that the company may be burning through its cash reserves too fast. Last quarter the Finnish smartphone manufacturer reporte[..]
18. May 2012
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin hasn’t seen the best publicity lately following the renouncement of his U.S. citizenship, but he took the time last night to congratulate Mark Zuckerberg on his impressive run.
“On the eve of the Facebook public float, 8 [..]
18. May 2012
On the eve of the Facebook public offering it appears that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has buried the hatchet once and for all, offering congratulations to the Facebook staff and Zuckerberg specifically as well. Saverin was portrayed in the Hollywood portrayal o[..]
18. May 2012
We’ve spent hours talking to and corresponding with analysts and VCs about the Facebook IPO over the past few days, and we couldn’t resist asking each of them a rather personal question: Expert commentary aside, would they, themselves, be buying Facebook st[..]
18. May 2012
The lawsuit over the breakup of Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard has been a proxy war between two industry giants.
But this week, the legal case took some new turns. For a while, it looked like Activision would prevail, but now the outcome isn’t so clear. [..]
18. May 2012
What were you doing at 9:30 a.m. Eastern? You certainly weren’t ringing the NASDAQ’s opening bell as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was doing. But what Zuck did simultaneously is perhaps even cooler.
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To celebrate the once-in-a-lifetime, histo[..]
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18. May 2012
Today’s Initial Public Offering of the social network known as Facebook has already set their stock up in the record books as the third largest IPO in history behind Visa and Enel. If Facebook’s stock does sit at $16 billion as projected, it will be just beh[..]
18. May 2012
Pre-orders for Samsung’s next flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S III, have already reached 9 million just two weeks after it was announced. In comparison, the last Galaxy phone took several months to reach 3 million pre-orders.
The early orders come from t[..]
18. May 2012
Missed out on the original HP TouchPad firesale? The ill-fated tablet gained a second lease on life once hackers started going to work on it and produced Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs. Fear not, you’ve got another chance to snag one: Woot is offering a refurbished 32GB HP T[..]
18. May 2012
When will the pain end? Not anytime soon, apparently. Rovio is content to milk the Angry Birds franchise for all it’s worth, announcing that the next installment will involve motor racing. Angry Birds Heikki will be a web-based game that will launch on June 18th. [..]
18. May 2012
While we’re all getting pumped up for Prometheus, RIdley Scott is going to revisit another movie he directed in the not too distant future. It was announced back in August that Scott would helm an upcoming Blade Runner movie, and today it’s been revealed that the mo[..]
18. May 2012
Who knew there would be so much drama over something as simple as a new SIM card standard? Apple, Nokia, RIM, and Motorola have all clashed over the issue, with RIM and Motorola saying they would find a compromise on the new design that would please all parties. That re[..]
18. May 2012
Best Buy may have jumped the gun a little in throwing up a release date for the HTC EVO 4G LTE. The company has now sent out emails to customers saying that the phone has been delayed, with no new date given so far. It comes after it was revealed that the HTC One X and [..]
18. May 2012
It’s believed that Steve Jobs was widely involved with Apple product development that stretched years into the future, and a new report from Bloomberg seems to confirm that in part. The publication reports that Jobs was closely involved with the development of the nex[..]
18. May 2012
HTC and Samsung have both shown their hands of this years top of the line smartphones, but LG may still have something up its sleeve. BriefMobile has obtained more pictures of the LG Eclipse, said to be LG’s next superphone that will rival the Galaxy S III. The pictur[..]
