March 3, 2011
Software engineers skilled in making applications for Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-operating system this week became more sought-after than developers for Apple's ...
February 25, 2011
Now that the Motorola (MMI) Xoom is available, the first of many Google (GOOG) Honeycomb tablets is poised to battle Apple's (AAPL) iPad for consumer dollars and ...
February 18, 2011
Overall tablet sales for 2011 are estimated in the tens of millions, and many of those new units will run Google's tablet-specific mobile platform, Honeycomb. Though a...
December 30, 2010
(Bloomberg) Skype Technology SA, the biggest provider of international calls, introduced video calling for Apple Inc.'s wireless devices, a move that may ...
December 28, 2010
(Bloomberg) Google Inc. is talking with educational-software companies to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, an industry whose value may ...
December 21, 2010
When I first met Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in the 20th century, my first impressions about them included phrases like super-smart, engineer's engineers, and ...
December 17, 2010
(Bloomberg) Oracle Corp., the second-largest software maker, rose in late trading after forecasting profit for this quarter that may top analysts' predictions,...
December 13, 2010
Last week Google (GOOG) showed off its progress on Chrome OS, introduced an apps store in support of it, and offered up a prerelease hardware trial program (real ...
December 2, 2010
(This story was corrected to show Oracle's benchmark calculated on a per-minute, rather than per-second, basis. It was also corrected to reflect the type of chips used...
December 2, 2010
Gowalla, the Austin (Tex.) developer of a location-based social networking app, has adopted a curious and bold strategy—embrace its archenemies and use them to ...
November 30, 2010
(This story was updated to include information on the software's speed.) When SAP's co-chief executives, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, took over in February, ...
November 23, 2010
(Bloomberg) Leo Apotheker, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new chief executive officer, gave Wall Street an inkling of how he'll lead the company, saying he won't ...
November 2, 2010
Robots build our cars and electronics. They sort packages with ease, lift enormous weights, and perform microsurgeries too small for the human eye. In Afghanistan, ...
October 21, 2010
The one thing certain about technology is that something better is always on the horizon. Some technologies, such as the landline telephone, evolve. Others, like the ...
October 21, 2010
Technology companies are running up against a dearth of qualified developers to create applications for mobile devices, according to a survey by online job board Dice ...
October 14, 2010
Earlier this year, Rutgers University student Daniel Moran noticed that his investment portfolio was being dragged down by tech stocks. To reverse the slide, Moran, ...
October 11, 2010
(Adds Zynga representative's comment in eighth paragraph.) (Bloomberg) Facebook Inc. and Zynga Game Network Inc. are charging fees of at least $2,500 for each ...
October 8, 2010
(Bloomberg) Adobe Systems Inc. shares surged 12 percent yesterday after a New York Times report fueled speculation that Microsoft Corp. may work more closely ...
September 12, 2010
Nokia on Sept. 10 named Stephen Elop as the new president and chief executive officer of the Finnish phone maker, effective Sept.21. Elop is leaving a senior role at ...
August 29, 2010
In a bid to reverse declining market share and relevance in the smartphone space, Microsoft (MSFT) is prepping Windows Phone 7, expected to launch this fall. The new ...
August 8, 2010
Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Hulu plan to make online advertisements less annoying and more profitable by letting users select which ones they'll watch. ...
July 26, 2010
In the beginning, there was the NERF Ball, a polyurethane foam sphere that could be tossed around the living room without threatening mom's Hummel figurines. It was ...
June 30, 2010
Google (GOOG) plans to push its Android mobile software in India and China, and is exploring ways for developers to make more money from applications, stepping up ...
June 24, 2010
Adobe (ADBE) Flash has long been the dominant vehicle for delivering Web video to PCs, but with the addition of Apple's (AAPL) iPad to the list of mobile devices that ...
June 23, 2010
Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-operating system is winning over an important group of allies in its fledgling rivalry with Apple: application developers. More than ...