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March 3, 2011

Google's Android Spurs More App Jobs Than iPhone

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

Four Signs of Honeycomb's Rush to Compete With Apple's iPad

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

What Honeycomb Means for Apple and Microsoft

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

Skype Video on Apple Devices

(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

Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store

(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

Google's Big Problem: It Ain't What You Think

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

Oracle Shares Up on Higher Profit Forecast

(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

Google's Chrome OS: Dead Before Arrival?

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

Oracle Says Sun Servers Set Database Record

(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's New Strategy: Embrace Enemies and Extend

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

SAP's Hana Speeds the Database Race

(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

HP's New CEO Steps Up Research Spending

(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

Becoming the Microsoft of the Robot World

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

Old Tech Never Fades Away; It Just Dies

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

Tech Companies See Dearth of Mobile-Software Developers

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

Kapitall: Investing 'for the Rest of Us'

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

Facebook, Zynga Impose Pre-IPO Share Fees

(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

Adobe Shares Advance on Report That Company Met with Microsoft

(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

Why Nokia Chose Stephen Elop

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

Killer Feature of Windows Phone 7? Hint: Not the Phone

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

ASq: Microsoft, Yahoo Let Users Choose Ads

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

NERF: Hasbro's Play in the Toy Arms Race

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 to Push Android Deeper into Asia

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

Viewers Seem To Like HTML5 Video Better Than Flash

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 Android Gains on Apple iOS

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 ...

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