Europe's telecom shares have long been seen as safe houses when the wolf is at the door, but recession, fierce competition and costly network upgrades are huffing and puffing at their capacity to pay generous dividends.
A few hours ago, the Canadian hacker iH8sn0w released the latest version of his popular jailbreak utility - Sn0wBreeze 2.9.1 after fixing numerous bugs, including the iPhone 3G iPad-flashing issue.
Vodafone Group Plc won a $2.2 billion legal battle against India's tax office in a Supreme Court ruling that analysts said would encourage foreign investment and clear the way for the company's planned initial public offering in India.
A strong outlook from IBM and decent results from Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp suggest that corporate decision makers are shaking off nervousness about economic growth and boosting spending on technology.
Facebook has moved one step forward in becoming the 'Media Hub' of the world, by rolling out 60 new apps that allow Facebook users to automatically share everything, from music to food, fashion and travel tips.
You may love it or hate it, but you cannot deny that Apple has become a technology empire. And, as the tech giant's market cap hovers around $400 billion and the company threatens to overtake Exxon-Mobil as the most valuable company in the world, everybody must be wondering about what really goes on in Apple, about the corporate culture of the world's most secretive company. Perhaps Adam Lashinsky holds the the answer.
Even though iPad has become the most popular tablet in the world, China's Communist Party members are content using special red tablets to do their work.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had once sworn to fight Google's Android with his last dying breath and every penny Apple had in the bank as the creative tech genius believed the rival has committed a grand theft of the iPhone's operating system. However, another Steve in Apple, and ironically, a co-founder of the tech giant, feels Apple has a lot to learn from Android phones.
Google has topped Fortune's annual list of '100 Best Companies to Work For' and that's not surprising - with a job growth of 33%. the 13-year old search giant has moved up from fourth place in 2011 to top the list this year.
Hackers collective Anonymous, which had gone underground for the past few months, reared its deadly head again, and shut down the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Universal Music Web sites via The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in retaliation against the U.S. government crackdown on Megaupload and Megavideo sites.
In Hollywood, George Lucas is one of the pioneers who used the latest technology to bring amazing special effects in movies. The director, known for 'The Star Wars' saga and 'Indiana Jones' series, has now declared that he would not make any more blockbuster film, in his interview with New York Times, ahead of the release of new movie 'Red Tails.'
If you are a deal hunter and looking for a post-holiday tablet offering, check out the $99 Galaxy Tab from Verizon or the $299 HTC EVO View from Amazon. Plenty of new tablets came out right before the holidays, and those devices are still for sale at premium prices.
The much-awaited education event was hosted by Apple on Thursday in New York, as the technology giant took a moment to unveil iBooks 2, which is being touted as a textbook killer.
Apple unveiled their latest attempt at shaking up what it sees as an industry in need of some technological innovation Jan. 19 when it announced iBooks 2, a do-it-yourself publishing kit for digital textbooks. It's meant to turn Apple's iPad into a learning tool and allow schools to begin building their own kinds of content including text, images and video.
The iDevices users' wait for the untethered jailbreak for their iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is nearing the end as the dream team released jailbroken iPad 2 photos and iPhone 4S jailbreak demo video. Joshua Hill, aka p0sixninja of the Chronic Dev Team, stated briefly that SOPA can make the distribution of jailbreaking software illegal. He also said this move could stop the hacker community from making available to users jailbreak news and tutorials.
Wikipedia has come back with a message saying We're turning the lights back on. Help us keep them shining brightly.
Space Exploration Technologies, a startup space transportation firm hired by NASA to fly cargo to the International Space Station, is delaying a planned February 7 test flight to allow more time to prepare for the mission, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Experts have recommended eliminating leap seconds from the time scale used by most computer systems, but governments are split on the issue, to be decided this week, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said Tuesday.
The United States will join with Europe and other nations to hammer out a code of conduct for space activities, including how to deal with the growing problem of debris circling Earth, the Obama administration said on Tuesday.
Suspicion is growing that operatives in China, rather than India, were behind the hacking of emails of an official U.S. commission that monitors relations between the United States and China, U.S. officials said.
Video game publisher Trion Worlds has raised $85 million in a new round of funding as the privately held company aims to expand to Asia this year and launch new titles, CEO Lars Buttler told Reuters on Thursday.
China Communist Party members can now carry a tablet PC to verify identification cards, read the blogs of cadres and manage state-owned firms without fretting that using a bourgeois Apple Inc iPad will ruin their street cred.
Samsung has been rumored to be interested in purchasing Research In Motion, the company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, but Samsung has now denied it has any interest in the Canadian company. Samsung doesn't want to buy them and they won't be doing any software licensing of BlackBerry software either, a Reuters report said Jan. 17.
February's Mobile World Congress could be the setting for Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy S3 smartphone, and it should be a worthy competitor to the new Droid Razr Maxx. While the price and release date aren't yet known for the Galaxy S3, Droid Razr Maxx will be sold by Verizon for $300 with a new two year contract. It will go on sale Jan. 26, and its release will coincide with Verizon's dropping the price of the Droid Razr to $200.
A therapeutic robot has been invented to prevent elderly people from depression and loneliness in Japan by Dr. Masayoshi Kanoh in Chukyo University in Japan. It is called Babyloid.
Scientists have confirmed that a piece of rock which fell into Tissint, Morocco on July 18, 2011 was a pure Martian meteorite. The fireball was spotted in the North Africa sky last summer but discovered six month later.
While Wikipedia, Reddit and sites on the Cheezburger Network black themselves out in protest over the SOPA bill, Flickr, Wired and Google have joined in the protest without going completely black. As Congress debates whether or not to pass the Stop Online Piracy Act and its sister bill the Protect IP Act in the Senate, Web sites across the U.S. have taken to the virtual streets to voice their opposition.
The race to release the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is nearing an end. Till now, you may have heard a lot from the jailbreakers telling you to wait patiently for the A5 jailbreak but, this time it seems the wait is going to end.
Elpida Memory will seek an equity tie-up with U.S. rival Micron Technology, a newspaper said on Wednesday, as the Japanese firm confronts mounting pressure from approaching debt repayments and a deteriorating memory chip market.
What is SOPA (or the Stop Online Piracy Act)? How will it impact businesses and Web giants? Who are the supporters of the bill? Who are the SOPA protesters? Is there an alternative to SOPA? What is the Jan. 18 blackout all about? Who are participating in the blackout? What can you do to join the anti-SOPA protest? To find out the answers to these questions, read this.
