GoogQuake: Larry Page reorg lifts top lieutenants to SVP

From CNET News.com: Google yesterday formally promoted the six executives that new CEO Larry Page has put in charge of its new business units. Sundar Pichai is now senior vice president of Chrome; Vic Gundotra is SVP of social; Andy Rubin, SVP of mobile; Salar Kamangar, SVP of...

Flash use dips at top Web sites since November

From CNET News.com: Web-page speed guru Steve Souders, putting to use the latest in a string of useful tools he's created, has found that the top 17,000 Web sites have eased off use of Adobe Systems' Flash Player in the last half year.

Specifically, Souders has started showing data...

Report: iPhone Jailbreaking iPhones Has Become Big Business

From DailyTech: Earlier in the week, we reported that a jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 had become available, and we did so without much fanfare. But yesterday, a report by The Washington Post and Bloomberg Business added a little oomph to the narrative by reporting just how lucrative the...

Dell to invest $1 billion to boost data storage products

From InfoWorld.com: Dell plans to invest $1 billion over the fiscal year 2012 to bolster its data storage products to business customers, with the money going toward the research of technology like cloud computing and virtualization, along with the development on new data centers...

Sony Japan: NGP to Ship on Time After All?

From PC World.com: First it's on, then it's off, and now Sony's end-of-year NGP launch is back on again, according to a Sony Japan spokesperson who says a Bloomberg NGP "delay" story got Sony bigwig Jack Tretton's comments "wrong."

Nikkei reports that Sony Corp doesn't expect its...

T-Mobile G2X available April 15 for $199.99

From CNET News.com: T-Mobile announced today via Twitter that the T-Mobile G2X (a.k.a. LG Optimus 2X) will be available online starting April 15 and in stores on April 20 for $199.99 with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate.

For the price, you get an Android 2.2...

Gartner: Android market share to near 50 percent

From CNET News.com: The Android operating system may soon own nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market, Gartner said today.

According to the market researcher, more than 296 million smartphones shipped last year. Out of that, Symbian secured 37.6 percent market share, followed by...

Android Chief Blasts Press, Claims Android is Still Open Source

From DailyTech: Google Inc. (GOOG) VP of Engineering Andy Rubin, better known as the Android team leader, posted a blog to the Android Developers site, entitled "I think I’m having a Gene Amdahl moment". In the article he seemed quite upset about the reaction to Honeycomb in the...

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