The Mozilla Foundation has issued the first release candidate of Firefox version 4.0, finishing a gruelling and ambitious beta development …
BMW aims for cars to take e-mail dictation
BMW has developed a prototype system that allows drivers to compose full-text e-mails and text messages using voice commands. Unlike …
Pre-nimbus perplexity
Just for once, let’s not talk cloud. Instead, let’s look at the technology initiative that, a few years back, was …
A rewarding job
When Ben Fried left his post as IT managing director at Morgan Stanley and took over as Google’s CIO in …
Acer announces Iconia Smart phone
Acer announced a new smartphone today as the world’s second largest PC maker takes another step into mobile devices. The …
Doing a Ratner
It may be known only in the UK, but people in business anywhere in the world can recognise ‘that Ratner …
Microsoft to pay out “billions” as part of Nokia deal
Nokia yesterday hinted that Microsoft essentially won a bidding war against Google to supply software to the world’s largest handset …
Nokia-Microsoft: is this the path to success or continued failure?
The broad Nokia-Microsoft partnership announced yesterday in which the Windows Phone operating system would run on Nokia smartphones sounds like …
Nokia and Microsoft partner on smartphone future
Microsoft and Nokia yesterday announced an alliance that pairs the world’s largest phone maker with the software giant in a …
Nokia facing ‘crisis’, says CEO
Nokia is facing a potential crisis, according to warnings reportedly issued to staff by its chief executive. In a memo …
IBM unwraps mobile security initiatives
IBM has unwrapped a variety of mobile security initiatives to help corporate customers better protect and manage the mass of …
HP takes first run at tablet market
Hewlett-Packard rolled out its debut entrant into the red-hot tablet market, the HP TouchPad, as well as two new smartphones …
Sony PlayStation phone to be launched at MWC
Sony Ericsson will officially unveil its highly anticipated ‘PlayStation phone’ at Mobile World Congress this year. The Xperia Play features …
Google bets $20K that Chrome can’t be hacked
Google will pay $20,000 to the first researcher who successfully exploits its Chrome browser at this year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest. …
Lenovo breaks ground on new operations centre
Chinese PC maker Lenovo has broken ground on a new operations centre in southwestern China that will produce computers, as …
Mobile app store revenue will surpass $15b in 2011: Gartner
Worldwide mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011, a 117% increase from an estimated …
IDC: Tablets, weak spending hurt PC shipments in Q4
Worldwide PC shipments were slower than expected during the fourth quarter of 2010, hurt by competition from tablets and a …
Cisco launches Videoscape TV platform
Cisco has unveiled Videoscape, a TV platform it said will let service providers combine digital TV and online content with …
What technologies can the UAE expect in 2011?
Whether it the flood of Apple iPad’s that made their way to the UAE or the Blackberry fiasco that ensued …
Galaxy Tab sales hit 1 million
Samsung has sold 1 million Galaxy Tab tablet devices worldwide just two months after putting it on sale outside the …