Apple introduces iPhone 4 to fend off intensifying competition
Seeking to fend off intensifying competition from Google and others in the smartphone business, Apple introduced a new version of the iPhone on Monday that includes a front-facing camera for video chats. The iPhone 4 is faster and thinner than previous models, with a crisper display and a more angular look. It has a 5-megapixel [...]
Cellphone in new role: Loyalty Card
Loyalty cards — those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten — are going mobile. And merchants are looking for ways to marry the concept to games that customers can play to earn more free items and, it is hoped, spend more money. [...]
New king of tech: Apple overtakes Microsoft
Wall Street has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in your hand. The moment came on Wednesday when Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, to [...]
Google ‘screwed up’ in capturing private Wi-Fi data: Brin
Google “screwed up” by accidentally gathering private wireless data while taking pictures for its “Street View” mapping service, co-founder Sergey Brin has said. Brin’s remarks came as two US lawmakers asked regulators whether the Internet giant had broken the law by capturing personal wireless data, while Italian and German authorities said they were looking into [...]
Facebook asked to add ‘panic button’
Facebook has been asked to add to its pages a child safety “panic button” that will guide users how to handle cyberbullying and inappropriate behaviour. Officials of the social networking site, which has been criticised for defying calls to add a specialist link to every page, were asked by child safety groups to “turnwords into [...]
Google CEO’s compensation for 2009 falls 52%
The total compensation of Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt fell 52 percent last year as the Internet search leader cut back on its employee perquisites to help lift its profits during the recession. Schmidt’s 2009 package totaled $245,322, down from $508,764 in 2008, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The [...]
Google expected to leave China on April 10: Reports
SHANGHAI: US Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans in the coming days, Chinese media reported on Friday, after rows over censorship and hacking. The China Business News quoted an official with an unidentified Chinese advertising agency as saying Google would go through with its threatened [...]
Yahoo-Microsoft deal set, taking aim at Google
SAN FRANCISCO: US and European regulators have cleared the long-discussed Internet search partnership between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., enabling the rivals to form a tag team as they try to mount a more serious challenge to Google Inc. The government approvals announced Thursday anointed an alliance that Microsoft and Yahoo proposed nearly seven months [...]
