18. May 2012
Say what you will about the Galaxy S III, but Samsung is going to sell mountains of phones. The Korea Economic Daily is reporting that the Samsung Galaxy S III has already amassed around 9 million pre-orders with over 100 global carriers. That’s made even more impress[..]
18. May 2012
It’s time to keep on rolling out on the NVIDIA train as the one year anniversary of the gaming hub known as TegraZone continues! This week it’s time to celebrate with no less than a whole new Sonic the Hedgehog game and an Anniversary Game Pack for you and y[..]
18. May 2012
PayPal processes 60% of web transactions, Google is the fastest payment gateway, and some unlucky surfer had to wait over 92 seconds for his online purchase to complete.
Those are only a few of the findings in New Relic’s study of the web’s most popular pay[..]
18. May 2012
On the eve of the largest technology IPO in American history, the company at the center of all the hoopla is celebrating in a geeky-chic style emblematic of its eight-year history.
Friday morning at 6:30 a.m. Pacific, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will ring the opening [..]
18. May 2012
In less than a month’s time, a game based on a niche comic book franchise that was turned into a successful TV show has been able to become its own breakout success. The Walking Dead Episode 1: A New Day has been downloaded a million times between the Xbox Live, P[..]
18. May 2012
If you look at all the different ways people can modify their Android software and all the various kinds of hardware and operating systems, do you know how many different platforms you’ll find? Apparently, there are nearly 4,000 “distinct” Android devi[..]
18. May 2012
Next month’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, taking place in Los Angeles from June 5-7, is starting to look a little sparse.
While the annual trade show is usually an opportunity for the games industry’s biggest companies to announce titles, unveil new hardw[..]
18. May 2012
Fun Machine, a new mobile entertainment software company based in Austin, Texas, was founded in early 2011. So why did it wait until today to let the world know it was officially open for business?
“We decided that launching our first game was more important than[..]
18. May 2012
Steve Jobs evidently thought about disrupting everything. From computers, to phones, to televisions … to cars. Apple board member and J. Crew chief executive Mickey Drexler revealed the unfulfilled dream.
“Steve’s dream before he died was to design a[..]
18. May 2012
Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital firms, has closed its fifteenth investment fund.
The company announced today that it has raised $525 million for KPCB 15, which will invest in “early-stage digital c[..]
18. May 2012
The timing couldn’t have been worse. On the week of its IPO, Facebook saw one of its largest advertisers, General Motors, get up and leave the table, likely taking millions of dollars with it.
The move prompted a swirl of marketing experts’ opinions and ana[..]
18. May 2012
Twitter is experimenting with personalized lists of Who to Follow accounts. Interestingly, the company is accomplishing this using data generated by millions of embedded Tweet buttons around the web.
Twitter thinks I need a coach
The Who To Follow functionality has be[..]
18. May 2012
In a move that would make the PS3 even more like a PC, Sony is apparently working on a service that would allow gamers to “pre-order” digital download titles that would be downloaded to the system’s hard drive before launch date. Even though said games[..]
18. May 2012
The flagship phone to carry the Sony Mobile Communications name is heading up to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. “Xperia S is planned to get ICS somewhere around late May/early June. That’s what’s been said and that’s still what we’re sticking to,” w[..]
17. May 2012
Happy Thursday, everyone. Friday’s right around the corner and that means the weekend is almost here! But for now, we’re chugging along to give you the tech news you need to know. First out of the gate today – Comcast boosts data cap to 300GB, adds tie[..]
17. May 2012
Happy Facebook IPO eve! Check out the companies getting funded today below. Click the links in each paragraph to learn more about the day’s funding news.
If you’re hankering for more funding news throughout the day, you can subscribe to our Deals Channel RSS feed b[..]
17. May 2012
Expanding on what we learned earlier this week from NVIDIA’s talk with effects group ILM, Visual Effect Supervisor Pablo Helman let us know that their work on the film Battleship‘s effects and production took place on a global scale. With technologies like w[..]
17. May 2012
Cable TV and Internet service provider Comcast is revising its policy on data caps, the company announced in a very thorough blog post today.
Previously, Comcast limited its residential Internet service subscribers to a 250GB data cap per month, meaning a person could [..]
17. May 2012
Facebook has priced its shares at $38 and will raise up to $18.4 billion in the largest technology IPO in U.S. history. Those who don’t want to miss a single moment of the watershed occasion are in luck, as the NASDAQ will be live streaming Facebook’s big d[..]
17. May 2012
Looking at the rest of the year, we can expect some blockbuster video games to hit store shelves. Activision is once again launching a Call of Duty game — Black Ops 2 — and despite my issues with it, Madden NFL from Electronic Arts will undoubtedly be a sale[..]
17. May 2012
The fight between Apple and HTC is heating up: earlier this week the US International Trade Commission impounded HTC’s shipments of high-end phones, presumably due to the December patent decision in Apple’s favor. It looks like the Delaware District Court h[..]
17. May 2012
The White House is losing its cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt to retirement this year after a tumultuous 2011, often referred to a the year of the hack.
Schmidt served the White House in this role for two and a half years, and has acted as a pivotal liaison b[..]
17. May 2012
If you’ve got a 3G device that only seldomly needs an actual mobile connection, like a tablet or hotspot, you’re no doubt frustrated that they’re normally sold with expensive contract plans. T-Mobile hopes to alleviate that with a handful of new of[..]
17. May 2012
Travel search site Kayak will likely time its IPO in the next few weeks to capitalize on the record-breaking Facebook IPO that will happen Friday, according to a CNBC report.
The eight-year-old flight-, hotel-, and car-reservation service originally filed for its IPO b[..]
17. May 2012
While privacy seems like a concept lost on Facebook, Twitter is showing that it understands its users’ need for security by supporting Mozilla Firefox’s “Do Not Track” feature, a day before Facebook is set to raise billions in its IPO.
Federal T[..]
17. May 2012
Amid delays from US customs after a patent dispute several months old, the HTC EVO 4G LTE appears to be prepared to be launched in the United States through Best Buy for pre-order customers. The “PRE-ORDER UPDATE” you see here comes with emails sent to Best [..]
17. May 2012
This week we’re seeing another step in the rolling out of US Cellular’s LTE network here in the United States with a brand new Samsung hotspot. If this hotspot looks familiar, it certainly should, as its essentially the same unit as we’ve seen previous[..]
17. May 2012
Status update: Facebook has priced its shares at $38 apiece and will raise $16 billion (up to $18.4 billion with its over-allotment option) tomorrow in its long-awaited initial public offering on the NASDAQ, the company has confirmed.
At $38 per share, Facebook’s[..]
17. May 2012
According to CFO Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s North Carolina facility dedicated to iCloud data will be run entirely on renewable energy by the end of 2012. This data center is not the only one of its kind made for this purpose for and by Apple, but it is the main iC[..]
17. May 2012
Hewlett-Packard plans to cut between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs next week in a move to restructure the company, according to reports by Bloomberg and AllThingsD.
CEO Meg Whitman will announce the layoffs next Wednesday on a conference call with analysts and press. The move[..]
