| Shakeup Pressures Yahoo to Sell Assets Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc.’s board shakeup that led to the departure of Chairman Roy Bostock adds to pressure on the company to sell Asian assets valued at more than $10 billion and... | |
| Leno Joke Killed in India Survives on YouTube Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Hours after NBC aired an episode of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Indian television channel Zee Cafe cut a joke featuring the Golden Temple from local... |
| Oracle Seeks Round Two in Battle Against SAP Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. decided it would rather have a new trial against SAP AG for copyright infringement than accept a judge’s $1 billion reduction in a jury verdict it won against... |
| Telenor Forecasts 5% Sales Growth After India Unit Causes Loss Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Telenor ASA, the Nordic region’s largest telephone company, forecast 5 percent revenue growth this year, excluding acquisitions and currency shifts, after writedowns at... |
| Bharti Airtel Net Misses Estimates as Customers Curb Calls Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s largest wireless operator, slumped the most in 21 months in Mumbai trading after unexpectedly reporting a profit decline because of lower... |
| Misys Investors to Win Control in Temenos Merger as Lawrie Goes Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Misys Plc shareholders will gain a majority stake in the company formed by a merger of the U.K. software maker with Temenos Group AG, while the Swiss rival’s chief... |
| United Micro Fourth-Quarter Earnings Drop 82% as Demand Slows Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- United Microelectronics Corp., the world’s second-largest contract maker of chips, said fourth- quarter profit fell 82... |
| Dinky Kong to map Aust-NZ digital heritage A spin-off of the cult game Donkey Kong, "Dinky Kong", will take its rightful place alongside new computer software programs in a collection of trans-Tasman digital heritage.Researchers... |
| Curbs 'inconsistent' on Syd-Melb track Inconsistent speed limits on damaged sections of the Melbourne-to-Sydney rail link could pose a safety risk, a review of the network has found.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)... |
| A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 8 Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to... |
| Greenpeace Hates Big Tech, But Wants To Kill Google Least Greenpeace looks down on the tech giants of the world. But it looks down on Google the least. On Tuesday, the big-name environmental-rights outfit unveiled its annual ranking of the tech giants... |
| Analysis: More than just Great Firewall awaits Facebook in China A new cell phone application limits distracted driving by prohibiting the ability to text or e-mail when the device is traveling more than 15 miles per hour. It can also track the mobile user's... |
| Samsung says TV sales stronger; plans to launch low-end TVs SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top television manufacturer, has seen TV sales firming up so far this year and plans to introduce cheaper TVs, as demand for lower-end... |
| Hey Intel, lower chip prices for Windows 8 stuff, says Asia pub (Credit: Brooke Crothers) Asia-based DigiTimes posted another in a series of articles that call for Intel to lower its chips prices. In this case, for Windows 8 gadgets. This isn't the... |
| Microsoft brings OneNote to arch-rival OS Android , continuing an expansion of the note-taking software beyond the company's own operating systems. "Mobile versions of OneNote are currently available on Windows... |
| Silicon Valley economy recovering faster than nation Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in job growth and wealth, outpacing the national economic recovery, according to a new report released today. Silicon Valley added 42,000 jobs last year, an... |
| Cuban activist blogger forced to stay on the island (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) Cuban blogger and activist Yoani Sanchez was told last week for the 19th time in four years that she was not allowed to leave Cuba, according... |
| Amazon, Viacom reportedly near Web video deal Amazon might expand its current member-based instant video plan and launch a standalone, subscription-based video streaming service, much like Netflix's.... |
| iPhone app controls tiny Hot Wheels car iPhone controller app. Although a little clunky to set up, Hot Wheel's iNitro Speeders gives the option of using an iPhone to control its little remote control cars. The iPhone app includes... |
| Olympus brings OM series into the 21st century Much as it did when launching the PEN series of Micro Four Thirds cameras, Olympus trots out another beloved film brand and updates it for the digital age. This time out, though, Olympus frames... |
| Google to promise fair licensing for Motorola patents Google is reportedly preparing a letter to standards organizations to reassure them that it will license Motorola Mobility's patents on reasonable terms if their planned merger closes. The... |
| Bostock, 3 others leaving Yahoo board of directors More members of Yahoo's board are following co-founder Jerry Yang out the door. Four board members at the Sunnyvale Internet giant will not stand for re-election, including embattled chairman... |
| Fremont's LED startup says price point is right The light source in Eric Kim's hands is just 6 millimeters across and, once powered up, almost blindingly bright. It's the flagship product of Kim's startup company, Soraa, which... |
| Wireless crunch faces political 'solutions' The flipside to the mobile revolution is that we're rapidly approaching a wireless spectrum crunch. As spiraling numbers of consumers watch video, stream music and send pictures on their smart... |
| Jive Software reports fourth-quarter loss Jive Software hit with quarterly loss Jive Software, a Palo Alto maker of social-networking software for businesses, had a wider net loss in its first quarterly report since selling shares to the... |
| U.S. appeals court rules Prop. 8 unconstitutional Teresa Rowe (foreground left to right), Kristin Orbin, Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis react with other supporters of same-sex marriage outside the James R. Browning United States Courthouse after a... |
| Chairman, 3 others out in Yahoo board shake-up SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, submitting to the demands of many frustrated shareholders who blame them for contributing to the... |
| 2.1 million viewers live stream Super Bowl online That's a small fraction of the record 111.3 million viewers that watched NBC's broadcast of the big game. But it was still enough to make it the most-watched single-game sports event... |
| Smartphone Owners Lament 4G Battery Woes Larry Seltzer , tossed a tech-grenade over the wall today to see if he could roust the minions on a post-Super-Bowl Monday. As usual, TeamBYTE did not disappoint. Today's tech fodder:... |
| App Stores Create 500,000 U.S. Jobs Approximately 466,000 jobs have been created in the U.S. by the current demand for smartphone and tablet applications, says a new study from TechNet. The research firm points out that U.S. companies... |
| Feds To Employees: Use Your Own Devices At Work Survey finds that 62% of agencies encourage staffers to bring their own mobile devices to work to save the agencies money. Close to half of federal employees are doing just... |
| Federal Standards Body Focuses On Big Data, Cloud National Institute of Standards and Technology's new IT Lab Director Chuck Romine says agency is focusing on big data, cloud computing, mobility, and cybersecurity in the coming... |
| Google Releases Chrome For Android Three-and-a-half years after Google introduced the desktop version of its Chrome Web browser, the company has finally launched a mobile version of... |
| Google Bouncer Won't Block All Android Malware Security expert says Google Bouncer malware checks are a step in the right direction, but not a complete solution. Meanwhile, Google excised more fake apps from the Android... |
| Air Force Command To Buy Tablets (click image for larger view and for slideshow) The Air Mobility Command is the second Air Force unit to replace paper-based flight information manuals with tablet devices. The command, which... |
| Utilities Facing Brute-Force Attack Threat SSH attack warning from ICS-CERT just the latest in a series of high-profile vulnerabilities affecting critical infrastructure of power plants, hospitals, even... |
| Siemens Targets North American Unified Communications Market Siemens Enterprise Communications challenges market leaders Cisco, Avaya as revamped company pushes corporate networking and communications gear under OpenScape... |
| VeriSign Breach May Reaffirm Certificate Authority Security Model (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Regardless of whether the secure sockets layer (SSL) business VeriSign sold to Symantec was compromised in the 2010 security breach that came to light... |
| Award-Winning Healthcare CIO Rick Schooler Honored Hospitals still ran on mainframes when Rick Schooler, named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS, started in healthcare. Now, business analytics and rich data are keys to healthcare transformation, he... |
| Who Is Anonymous: 10 Facts | Enterprise Tablet Shootout Anonymous 'hacktivists' aim to expose what they call government and establishment hypocrisy. Take a closer look at the group, its offshoots, and its infamous... |
| Halliburton Adopts iPhone, Casts BlackBerry Aside 60,000 employees worldwide , around 4,500 of whom carry BlackBerry handsets, according to the report. In the message, employees were told, "Over the next year, we will begin expanding the... |
| RIM To Developers: You'll Make Money With Us Research In Motion is clearly attempting to do some damage control at DevCon Europe, which is taking place in Amsterdam this week. Speaking to some 2,000 developers, the company revealed that... |
| iPhone 4S Propels Apple To Smartphone Lead (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Apple edged past Samsung in fourth-quarter smartphone shipments and worldwide market share as the iPhone maker reclaimed its status as the... |
| IBM Adds Speed, Flexibility To Big Data Storage XIV Storage Systems, tuned for cloud, virtualization, big data implementations, get solid state drives to triple storage speed, plus iPhone app for remote... |
| Tablet Shootout: Which Fits Your Enterprise? Tablet mania is in high gear for 2012, and consumers are being bombarded with offerings from vendors small and large. Given the consumerization of technology, this fusillade will ultimately land on... |
| Socialcast Brings Fast Answers To Far-Flung Nonprofit Workers Enterprise social network enables international health agency workers to get immediate answers from peers, rather than waiting for the home office in D.C. to... |
| VMware Rapidly Expands Cloud Partner Network VMware users who want to run virtualized workloads in the cloud now have 94 cloud service providers to choose from in a wide variety of worldwide... |
| Wolfram Alpha Learns Image, Data Tricks Wolfram Alpha has been upgraded with a number of significant new capabilities that will be offered starting on Wednesday under a paid subscription program called Wolfram Alpha Pro. Company founder... |
| Bits Blog: Google Makes Its Chrome Browser Mobile Print The browser wars just got interesting again.On Tuesday, Google will introduce its Chrome browser for phones and tablets that run the latest version of its Android operating system, Android 4.0... |
| Bits Blog: Facebook Graffiti Artist Could be Worth $500 Million wrote about the people who are set to get rich from Facebook’s coming initial public offering of stock. The most startling was David Choe, a graffiti artist who chose Facebook stock instead of... |