Yahoo’s board has chosen as the company’s CEO Scott Thompson, president of eBay’s PayPal, ending a four-month search after Carol …
Google, Facebook are dominant websites of 2011
Online giants Google and Facebook came out as the most-visited Web sites of 2011, according to a Nielsen report. Meanwhile, …
Mozilla persuades Firefox 3.6 users to dump old browser
Mozilla’s upgrade call last month pushed more Firefox 3.6 users to grab a newer edition than any month since June …
Kindle Fire cuts into iPad sales: analysts
As many as two million fewer iPads were sold this holiday season because of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, according to …
Samsung upgrades Galaxy Ace with more memory, faster processor
Samsung Electronics has launched the Android-based Galaxy Ace Plus, which has more memory, a faster processor and a slightly larger …
Google acquires more IBM patents
Google has acquired more IBM patents, adding more than 200 to approximately 2,000 patents it had previously bought from IBM. …
Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers
Microsoft’s Windows XP shed a large amount of usage share again last month as users continued to desert the decade-old …
Google pulls Siri-like app off Android market
Google has reportedly yanked an app masquerading as Siri, Apple’s voice command personal assistant software, from the Android marketplace. The …
Hackers to combat censorship with own satellites
Hackers reportedly plan to fight back against Internet censorship by putting their own communications satellites into orbit and developing a …
Chrome nears 20%, IE resumes slide
After a one-month pause, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) resumed its usage share slide in December, dropping to a new low …
Intel’s Mobile Chip ‘Medfield’ Specs and Benchmarks Leaked
Intel’s first system-on-chip, codenamed “Medfield,” may outperform other chips designed for tablets and smartphones–at least according to performance numbers from …
SAP acquisition of SuccessFactors clears antitrust hurdle
SAP’s US$3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors has passed an important regulatory step, with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission deciding to …
Intel tries to keep netbooks alive with new Atom chips
Intel yesterday started shipping the latest Atom chips for netbooks, an important step to sustain growth of the low-cost PCs …
IBM’s Watson shows up for work at Cedars-Sinai’s cancer centre
IBM’s Watson supercomputer is about to begun work evaluating evidence-based cancer treatment options that can be delivered to the physician …