Former Apple iPod godfather and Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has finally left HP after a complicated saga of wasted resources, squandered talent and dumb executive decisions. He was made HP’s Senior VP for Product Innovation in the Personal Systems Group after HP bought Palm in 2010. After 19 months of turmoil and failure, the man…
Just a few days after the New York Times ripped Apple a new one, Tim Cook decided to rant to the troops. He disagrees with the Times’ assessment of Apple’s factories in China. There’s been a lot said recently about the production of Apple’s computers and gadgets. All of this despite, at first glance, a…
Intel has signed an agreement with RealNetworks swapping 190 patents and 170 patent applications for $120M. That includes the patents that cover RealNetworks’ core technologies– video compression codecs and streaming. What’s curious about the deal is that Intel itself tends to be a hardware company, developing chips instead of bits. Could this deal mean that…
Will some of the polish come off Apple with new reports that its coolest products are made in crowded labor camps by sometimes underage workers who work 60 hours or more a week and live 20 or 100 to an apartment (depending on the report) with suicide netting installed to keep them from jumping? .…
According to their newly revealed Q4 report, Netflix bounced back during the last part of fiscal year 2011. It still doesn’t make up for the 800k subscribers that they lost due to (among other things) a proposed, cancelled spinoff (Quikster) and a price hike for streaming and disc rental services. The red company’s woes from…
Lytro, the new camera from the company of the same name, is a completely new type of image capture device. For the camera nerds out there, that means that there’s a ton of questions– it’s a new type of camera but what does that mean, exactly? Well, for starters, instead of capturing an image onto…
Everyone’s favorite internet vigilante group, Anonymous, is reportedly going to stage a full-scale siege against Facebook on January 28th. Part of something called Operation Global Blackout, the group is calling on the people of the world to download the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) application, which is a tool they’ve used in the past to…
Thanks to a super strong holiday season, Apple is posting profits that are impressive. Given Apple’s recent reputation for always-amazing sales, their Q1 2012 earnings boggle the mind. The famous Cupertino-based company has reported that their profit last quarter was…wait for it… more than double of last year’s at $13.1B. Sales rose 73% to $46.3B.…
We had a chance to chat with David Lieb, CEO of Bump Technologies, Inc. Bump is famous for their iOS and Android app which lets people easily exchange information in real life by simply bumping their smartphones together. It’s like the 21st century version of clinking beer mugs. While ‘bumping phones’ might sound like a…
Google+ is set to get a boost from the highest office in the land. President Barack Obama is answering submitted questions and will be streamed live via YouTube as well as Google+’s hangout feature. If you’ve always wanted to hang with the POTUS, this is your chance, even if it’s just online. You can participate…