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Big
quarter made Apple world’s largest
smartphone seller, analyst says 01-30-12
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc.’s
record 37 million iPhones sold in the last quarter of 2011 made it the
world’s leading smartphone vendor for the quarter, barely topping rival
Samsung Electronics Co., an analysis firm reported Friday.
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Apple
sets out to transform textbooks 01-23-12
LOS ANGELES — Apple Inc. has
already transformed the music, mobile phone and personal computing industries,
and now the tech giant says its next chapter will be about reinventing
textbooks.
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‘Connected
homes’ expected
to converse with computers, phones 01-16-12
LAS VEGAS — Is your refrigerator
running? If you don’t know, just ask it.
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Apps
to speed the car-buying process 01-09-12
Auto sales numbers show car shoppers are
venturing back onto dealer lots. Many are toting smartphones and tablets, too.
Even when you’re car-shopping on Craigslist, car-hunting applications will
help you identify the better deals.
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Sony
quits organic-screen TV business 01-09-12
TOKYO - Sony Corp. has discontinued
production of TV sets with organic electroluminescence (EL) display panels,
widely seen as the mainstream panel to be used in next-generation flat-screen
TVs, it was learned Saturday.
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Sound
Advice: Powered subwoofers with speaker-level inputs 01-03-12
Q. A salesman in a big box store told me
that a powered subwoofer cannot be connected to a 2-channel stereo receiver. Is
he right?
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Q&A:
Improve your Outlook or get new email 01-03-12
Question: My Outlook 2003 email program
has suddenly stopped sending or receiving messages that are to or from
addresses outside my Internet service provider’s email system. I get no error
messages and I see the Outlook message “send/receive complete” as if all
were normal.
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Hewlett-Packard
offers fix for printers susceptible to remote hacks
12-27-11
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard
released a firmware update Friday that it says will fix a susceptibility in
some of the Palo Alto, Calif., company’s popular LaserJet printers that
researchers said could allow hackers to remotely take control of the devices.
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Sales
of Amazon Kindles exceed 1 million for third straight week 12-19-11
LOS ANGELES - For the third week in
a row, Amazon.com Inc. has sold more than 1 million Kindles a week. During that
time, sales of its Kindle Fire tablet have increased week over week, the
e-commerce giant said Thursday.
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IBM’s
Watson computer to help doctors 12-19-11
LOS ANGELES - IBM’s Watson
supercomputer may be best known for handily beating “Jeopardy!” game show
champs.
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Has
Facebook killed the holiday card? 12-12-11
On one side of the gold-wrapped
chocolate coin in your Christmas stocking, there’s Kathleen Snider, of
Alameda, Calif., who was simply stunned to get a detailed, family-update
holiday letter in the mail from a friend last year because she figured everyone
is on Facebook now and no one sends holiday cards or letters anymore.
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Hewlett-Packard
to retain webOS as open-source platform 12-12-11
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard
Co. will not sell the remnants of its Palm acquisition, instead making the
webOS mobile operating system available to developers as an open-source
platform.
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Amazon
takes bite out of Apple’s market share for tablets 12-05-11
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In its first
quarter of selling its own tablet computers, Amazon.com Inc. has become the
second-biggest seller of the increasingly popular mobile devices by stealing
market share from the still-dominant leader, Apple Inc., according to
projections.
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Cyber
Monday cheats everyone 11-28-11
With the holiday season now in full
swing, why are so many Main Street retailers down in the dumps? The reason is
“Cyber Monday,” and it will likely go down as the biggest online shopping
day in the history of the Internet.
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Mobile
Flash can’t die soon enough 11-21-11
Somewhere Steve Jobs must be smiling.
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Amazon
takes only slight loss on Kindle Fire tablet 11-21-11
LOS
ANGELES - Amazon.com Inc. is taking a loss on each $199
Kindle Fire it sells, according to a new report from the
research firm IHS iSuppli that pegs the total cost to
make each tablet at $201.70.
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HD stands
for high demand
If your home is your castle you
probably prefer a night in to a night out. Staying in to catch the
latest DVD release is probably the comfort food of entertainment. Now,
many homes feature a theater room that comes as close as possible to
seeing it on the big screen.
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Wired and waiting
You’re driving home after work on a
dark, freezing, snowy day. So you make a call to your house and tell
it to turn on the driveway defrosters and the outdoor lighting. You go
to bed that night and the house wakes you up in the morning with soft
music, a hot shower waiting and a carafe of steaming coffee in the
breakfast room.
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