Report: PlayStation 3 successor launching in 2012
by Don Reisinger Sony is planning to launch a follow-up to the PlayStation 3 next year, DigiTimes is reporting. Citing “Taiwan-based component makers,” DigiTimes says production on the console will start at the end of this year. However, the component makers did not say exactly when next year the device might launch. Though DigiTimes’ sources call Sony’s next [...]
Apple loses bid for injunction against Amazon
by Steven Musil A federal judge has denied Apple’s request to immediately stop Amazon from using the term “Appstore” to describe its digital downloads storefront. In an 18-page opinion filed today with the U.S. District Court for Northern California, Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction preventing Amazon’s use of the term, which [...]
Publish on a Linux Desktop? Yes You Can!
Desktop publishing applications are different from word processing programs. Desktop publishing isn’t a sit-and-start-typing task; it requires more input from the user in terms of page layout, spacing and how elements are arranged. This might require a little more learning on the user’s part, but if you’re on Linux and desktop publishing is your thing, [...]
Hey You, Get Off of My Cloud!
By Sonia Arrison By all accounts, cloud computing is the future. The market will grow at five times the rate of traditional IT products, IDC has predicted, estimating it will be worth US$55.5 billion by 2014. While the future should be rosy, some policy groups are warning that without proper protections, the sector could stumble hard. [...]
Is Facebook Planning a Phone? Who Knows. Should It? No
By John C Abell It was quite the weekend sensation: TechCrunch thought it had a resonant story — though perhaps not in this way. It’s hard to say exactly why the TechCrunch piece on Facebook developing a branded phone caught so much fire and ire. It might, however, be because Facebook took the somewhat unusual step of [...]
Windows 8 leaks show Microsoft’s eyes on Apple
Although still early in the process, newly leaked documents about Windows 8 offer some keen insight into where Microsoft wants to head with the next version of the operating system. One thing that is made abundantly clear is that Microsoft has been paying attention to Apple. In the documents, which appear to come from an [...]
Microsoft’s Xbox motion control system is Kinect
An official product shot of Kinect, formally known as Project Natal, the new motion-control system from Microsoft. The company showed it off Sunday night in a special performance in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES–After more than a year of speculation, we finally know what Microsoft’s new motion-control system is called. For those that have referred to [...]
7 Key Turning Points That Made Apple No. 1
By Brian X. Chen Apple has been through some extreme ups and downs, but today the corporation climbed to an all-time high. Apple surpassed longtime rival Microsoft in market capitalization, making the Cupertino, California, company the most valuable technology company in the world, for the moment, at least. The milestone is even more remarkable given [...]
Microsoft Will Pay VirnetX $200M To Settle Patent Suits
By Mark Long Microsoft has agreed to pay VirnetX Holding $200 million to settle patent-infringement cases. After VirnetX was awarded $105.75 million in one case, it filed a second lawsuit citing Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and both cases will be dismissed. Microsoft wanted to avoid the problems it had with i4i’s [...]