Apple, TV networks clash over 99-cent rentals
Several media conglomerates, including General Electric Co’s NBC Universal, CBS Corp, Viacom Inc, are notably absent from the Apple TV rental roster.
Several media conglomerates, including General Electric Co’s NBC Universal, CBS Corp, Viacom Inc, are notably absent from the Apple TV rental roster.
Apple is taking a bite out of online TV rental prices, in part to try to revive its Apple TV product that never caught on with consumers.
An extremely annoying bug that plays an old ragtime tune has commandeered Google’s Gmail, after the company debuted its ‘Priority Inbox’ feature
U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp unveiled a deal on Monday to buy German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG’s wireless unit for $1.4 billion
Microsoft Corp.’s co-founder Paul Allen says big-name companies are using his technology without paying for it.
Google announced today that it will allow users to make phone calls directly from Gmail.
Southern California is long overdue for a major earthquake along the San Andreas fault, according to a landmark study of historic seismic activity released Friday.
The study, produced after several years of field studies in the Carrizo Plain area about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, found that earthquakes along the San Andreas fault have occurred [...]
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp.’s $7.68 billion purchase of McAfee Inc. may put pressure on security software rival Symantec Corp. to build hacker-thwarting technology inside corporate computers and forge new alliances to stay competitive.
Yesterday’s deal signals a shift in the global security software market, where sales will reach $16.5 billion this year, according to [...]
More details are emerging about a Chrome OS tablet set to launch for the 2010 holiday season. If the reports are accurate, HTC, Google, and Verizon are working together to launch a Chrome OS tablet on Black Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season.
The team of HTC, Google, and Verizon makes sense. Google has [...]
Paul Shin Devine is one bad apple.
The midlevel Apple manager was arrested Friday for allegedly accepting $1 million in kickbacks from Asian suppliers, the San Jose Mercury News.
In return for the cash, Devine, a 37-year-old Sunnyvale, Calif. resident, is accused of providing top-secret information, which allowed the suppliers to bargain for more favorable contracts with [...]