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Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is stepping up the drumbeat around its efforts to penetrate the mobile handheld device market leading up to the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will be held in Las Vegas in January. The semiconductor giant recently sent prototype devices, known as reference designs, to theMIT Technology Review to try out. The devices sent [...]
This story was originally published on Aug. 11, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. In terms of online communication, social media is the biggest trend in recent years. There are billions of participants around the globe as well as an array of forms: blogs, forums, wikis, [...]
I’ve often joked that if something’s not onFacebook, it didn’t happen. Facebook’s new Timeline feature makes that adage even more apparent. Timeline is Facebook’s new way of presenting you to the world. It replaces your traditional profile page — the one with your headshot and a smorgasbord of personal musings, photos and other items to [...]
“The thing people used to care about, and the reason they chose Windows, was because there was a huge number of applications available for the platform, so they had the inertia of having lots of installed users and that led to lots of applications users could use,” said Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. “What [...]
Microsoft will freshen up the Xbox 360′s dashboard this December, giving it a new look based in the Metro stylings found in Windows Phone and expected in Windows 8. Users will also find new social features, cloud storage, better voice and gesture controls, and Beacon, a service to help organize one’s online gaming. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) [...]
A study conducted by Facebook and the University of Milan has concluded that any two Facebook users are, on average, only about 4.74 connections away from each other. The researchers conducting the University of Milan/Facebook study approximated the number of hops between all pairs of individuals on Facebook using algorithms developed by the University of [...]
Mac OS X Lion catapults the user into Apple’s touchy-feely future. New gestures and full-screen options bring the user to a new level of control, if you have the right peripherals. Safari has been improved, and what used to be called “Expose” has learned new skills and been renamed “Mission Control.” But be advised: You [...]
Amazon.com Inc is in talks with Chinese regulators to bring in its popular e-reader Kindle and its recently announced tablet Kindle Fire, local media reported quoting an Amazon executive. Amazon’s Senior Vice President Marc Onetto told Sohu IT in an interview on Thursday that the firm’s Kindle products are still under discussion with regulators over copyright issues. [...]
The top microbloggers on Sina Weibo and Twitter have reached new follower milestones. Lady Gaga has become the first microblogger on the globe to reach 15 million followers on Twitter and China’s most followed weiboer Yao Chen has become the first to reach 14 million fans on China’s Twitter equivalent, Sina Weibo. Lady Gaga was busy touring in India when she [...]
These are the carrier’s first Android smartphones to run on its 4G LTE network. They will be on the market Nov. 6. On that day, AT&T will also launch 4G LTE services in four new markets — Boston; Washington; Baltimore; and Athens, Ga. The Galaxy Skyrocket will be priced at US$250 with a service agreement, well above the $200 [...]