Friday Poll: Do you like Facebook Timeline? Facebook Timeline is now a requirement, not an option. Are you digging the new profile look–with its long history and constant friend updates–or are you pining for the old days? Solar storm fuels stunning auroras (video) You couldn’t ask for a better show for a night out in
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Beware the fake subscription app Wasn’t the Web supposed to save us money? Then how come what should be a $20 application is now a $120 yearly subscription? AT&T loses whopping $6.7B on pension costs, T-Mobile breakup fee Carrier added a net 717,000 new contract subscribers and activated 9.4 million smartphones, but paid the price
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LG Optimus LTE smartphone grabs 1 million in sales Since its launch last October, the Optimus LTE smartphone has scooped up more than a million in unit sales across the U.S., Canada, Japan, and South Korea, according to LG. European Union overhauls data-privacy policies to protect consumers The EU says that data protection for individuals
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iPhone 4S wooing lots of Android, BlackBerry users The latest iPhone is capturing 36 percent of its buyers from people upgrading from Android, BlackBerry, and Palm, says Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. Take that, Apple. Dutch court cool with Samsung Tab design Apple comes up empty as a Dutch court dismisses its claims that Samsung’s Galaxy
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Tablet ownership nearly doubled during the holidays Between the middle of December and the beginning of January, the number of tablet owners in the U.S. almost doubled from 10 percent to 19 percent, says Pew Internet. MegaUpload lawyer says U.S. misunderstands business A lawyer presenting MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom asked a New Zealand court to
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Secrets to Apple success: Displays One reason for Apple’s success is its knack for driving technology standards. So much so that tech adopted by Apple often becomes a must-have on products from other device suppliers. A tale of Apple, the iPhone, and overseas manufacturing A new report uses Apple and its recent history to look
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Info-starved no more–home energy gadget clues you in Energy monitoring is like fitness-tracking for your utility bill. CNET’s Martin LaMonica tries a whole-house electricity monitor out and gets a read on where software and the cloud is taking home energy. Apple schools us on the next wave of textbooks Apple’s much-rumored textbook plans came to
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Samsung patent lawsuit against Apple struck down in German court Judge Andreas Voss says one of the claims Samsung brought against Apple was not valid, but many more lawsuits before the court have yet to be decided on. Megaupload assembles worldwide criminal defense Kim Dotcom will spend the weekend in a New Zealand jail while
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Massive losses mark Sony Ericsson’s final quarter With Sony poised to buy out its partnership with Ericsson, the mobile device maker writes its final chapter in bold red ink. Nissan Leaf batteries seek second life as home storage Working with grid equipment supplier ABB, a Nissan venture will create a prototype stationary energy storage machine
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Yahoo’s Yang is gone. That was the easy part Restoring the fortunes of the pioneering Internet company takes a lot more than ejecting a high-profile executive. The rank and file, too, are key to Yahoo’s fate. Next-gen solar tech makes big leagues Solar Frontier’s thin-film technology will be used at a 150 megawatt solar farm
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