Lead Designer of webOS Flees to Google

From DailyTech: Just when you thought that things had quieted down a bit on the Palm front, this interesting bit of news just came across the news wires. Earlier this morning, it was reported that Matias Duarte, the man who lead that team that developed the webOS UI, was leaving Palm...

Apple Deposes Microsoft to Become World's Biggest Tech Company

From DailyTech: Apple has at least brief briefly become the world's largest tech company in terms of market cap. That spot has been held for over a decade by Microsoft, makers of the Windows operating system.

In trading Monday, Apple Inc.'s shares slipped $1.11 to close at $244.11...

30 Million Americans Shocked When Opening Mobile Phone Bills: FCC

From CRN: Consumers surprised by their mobile phone fees should not feel alone, as one of every six mobile users has experienced “bill shock,” according to a survey by the Federal Communications Commission.

The FCC said the survey could be a wake-up call to consumers to carefully...

Intel Kills Off Larrabee Discrete Graphics, For Real

From Tom's Hardware: Intel's graphical part known as Larrabee never came to fruition. Last year we learned that Intel missed some key milestones in its plan for Larrabee and as a result it had to shelve the project. Intel's Bill Kircos wrote in a blog post an update on the company's...

Google Nexus One Hits U.S. Retail Store for $300

From eWeek: Google's Nexus One smartphone, based on Android 2.1, is now available from T-Mobile affiliate i wireless for $299.95 at more than 250 retail locations. I wireless is the first of what could be many retailers to offer the Nexus One in a reversal for Google, which began...

Acer Shows off Android-powered Stream Handset

From PC World: Acer offered a preview of its upcoming Stream smartphone at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.

The Stream has a unique screen layout, using its status bar as a divider between application icons at the bottom of the screen and application history at the top...

Microsoft Natal May Cost $149 – Media Report

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. plans to price its Natal motion sensor for Xbox 360 game console at $149 and also sell it bundled with Xbox 360 Arcade version, according to a media report. In spite of relatively high price, the software giant reportedly intends to sell millions of...

Adobe patches 'critical' holes in Photoshop CS4

From CNET News.com: Photoshop users like to expand what the software can do by downloading new brushes, gradients, and color swatches, but the ability to make those additions also turns out to have been a potential avenue for attack.

Adobe Systems on Wednesday released a Photoshop...

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