The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Well, maybe someday (eventually). Until then, everyone’s favorite Cupertino, California-based fruit company controls more of the semiconductor market than anyone and that brings with it incredible perhaps unprecedented power over component supply and pricing, as well as ability to deliver products that no one else [...]

Google has announced a slight tweak to its rule that previously insisted users were listed solely by their real name. But it’s rejected calls for totally anonymous profiles.

As we reported last July, Google initially had a somewhat muddled policy of telling users [...]

As filesharing websites begin covering their tracks after the closure of Megaupload, you might be forgiven for thinking it was doomsday for a particular method of piracy. In fact the technique remains alive and well, but may now be relying [...]

This is just a strange situation all the way around. It may be true that the company’s Blackberry subscriber base is still growing, momentum has clearly shifted to the iPhone and Android. Further, the once industry-leading Canadian smartphone maker’s tablet play hasn’t paid off.

While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, [...]

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No not the color green but the renewable resource green.  Like cellulose and cotton insulation, sheep’s wool is a renewable resource with a twist.  Cellulose insulation recycles paper and cotton insulation recycles the bits of blue jean material that would normally be tossed in [...]

A lot of people are all agog [...]

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There’s no question Google’s going all-in with its new social networking service. There are search, promotional and advertising tie ins that are designed to pull us in and keep within searchzilla’s warm embrace, but can Google succeed where so many others have failed?

By the new year I had pretty much used, consumed, worn, or broken everything I had been bought for Christmas. The same cannot be said of most people.

According to a survey conducted by MyVoucherCodes (via PC Advisor) a great [...]

The operators of major filesharing website Megaupload say they’ll defend themselves against criminal charges. Their lawyer plans to argue that not only do the charges themselves not hold up, but the enforced closure of the site before trial is a [...]

Oh my goodness gracious, Kindle Fire sales are expected to plummet — plummet, I say — this quarter. Are the good times over, the end nigh? Actually, a big fall off after the holiday quarter is perfectly normal and Amazon’s tablet-ish media slate has a case of the post-holiday blues. But how blue [...]

The company that cracked then conquered the color film and processing market with its once ubiquitous KodaChrome, and invented digital photography has filed for Chapter 11 protection while it reorganizes. In the days and hours leading up to the move, Rochester, NY-based Kodak fired off a series of lawsuits, targeting smartphone makers Samsung, [...]

McAfee’s security software is intended to prevent your computer from unauthorized use by rogue parties. Unfortunately a software bug means that in some cases its doing the exact opposite.

The problem is occurring in a product know as SaaS Total Protection, the abbreviation in this case [...]

When even the co-founder of Apple admits he’s a fan of Android, Google knows it’s doing something right.

Steve Wozniak is ‘the other Steve’, the one who happily faded into the background while Steve Jobs did his thing. And while Jobs was [...]

In a company with tens of thousands of employees and contractors, it can be hard to make sure every one follows the best possible standards. That’s about the nicest thing you can say about two recent incidents that sure don’t tally with [...]