TORONTO (Reuters) – Oil field services company Halliburton plans to stop issuing BlackBerry smartphones to employees and switch over to Apple’s iPhone, which it said was better suited to its needs, marking another setback for Research In Motion. RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones have long dominated corporate mobile communications with on-the-hip email and security credentials, but are [...]
Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass display coverings for smartphone and tablet touchscreens, wants you to picture a future in which interactive displays cover nearly every surface. In January, Corning announced an even more durable and lightweight second-generation of Gorilla Glass, but the company also has some ambitious visions of possible innovations. Showcasing some of its [...]
Mark Zuckerberg succeeded because of his ambition, vision, execution, persistence, luck and timing, a Tech Crunch contributor wrote recently. This collection of winning qualities glosses over a crucial ingredient of the Facebook co-founder’s success: Zuckerberg is a master bricoleur who has systematically cherry-picked and ingested innovations introduced by other social media sites and platforms. Facebook’s filing [...]
Google has released a long-awaited beta version of its Chrome web browser for Android-powered phones and tablets, but the software only works on devices running the latest version of Android. The test version of Google’s popular Internet browser was made available for download today in the Android Market. Notable features of the software include the capacity for [...]
Apple’s hold has spread across the world, but its reach seems to have hit a roadblock in China, where a protracted conflict continues. LCD manufacturer Proview Technology (Shenzen), which is based in the southern city of Shenzen, China, and is a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s Proview International Holdings, Ltd., is suing Apple in a Beijing [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — 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 follies that have dragged down the Internet company’s revenue and stock price. The shake-up announced Tuesday continues a drastic makeover of Yahoo’s leadership during the [...]
Woody Harrelson participated in one of Reddit’s ”Ask Me Anything” (AMA) threads Friday, but perhaps someone should have told him it wasn’t called “Ask Me Anything, as long as it’s about my new movie.” The 50-year-old actor’s answers infuriated the website’s users as he attempted to promote his new film, “Rampart.” AMA threads are a space where [...]
Life’s a beach for Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart. The couple, along with Lopez’s almost four-year-old twins, Max and Emme, was spotted having a play date at a Malibu beach on Sunday. Smart, a backup dancer for Lopez’s tour, showed off his toned abs while the “American Idol” judge stayed mostly covered up while relaxing [...]
It wouldn’t be a Super Bowl halftime show without some kind of drama, right? Singer M.I.A. caused quite a stir during her performance with Madonna Sunday night, when she did the unthinkable and flashed her middle finger for an estimated 111.3 million viewers to see. With a second’s worth of middle-finger glory, M.I.A. managed to anger NBC, [...]
LOS ANGELES — After what felt like an eternity but was actually just a few minutes, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt emerged from a white door into the foyer of the old-fashioned Bel-Air mansion that he shares with his wife of 25 years, former glamour queen Zsa Zsa Gabor. The self-proclaimed German prince held a chocolate [...]
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