Apple says iPad pre-orders start Friday morning

From CNET News.com: Apple normally offers a very simple message about its products. Often, there's not even a tagline.

So it's curious that at Apple.com, the company emits these words: "A magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price. Coming April 3."

I know that this...

Report: Verizon 4G handsets out by mid-2011

From CNET News.com: Anthony Melone, chief technology officer at Verizon Wireless, told the newspaper he expects Verizon to be able to offer mobile handsets with 4G capability within three to six months after it launches its commercial 4G network. This is about six months sooner than...

Intel Invests in Social Media Incubator Betaworks

From PC World: Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday.

The investment could help Intel develop better hardware for mobile devices or servers that either...

Researcher publishes exploit for new IE hole

From CNET News.com: An Israeli security researcher has published exploit code for an unpatched hole in Internet Explorer that Microsoft disclosed two days ago.

Microsoft had warned in an advisory that a new vulnerability in IE 6 and IE 7, which could allow an attacker to take...

Bing use inches up in February

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's Bing grabbed 11.5 percent of all search queries in the U.S. in February, slightly higher than its 11.3 percent share the prior month, according to the latest figures from ComScore.

Yahoo, which recently won regulatory approval over a search technology...

ARM Expects 50 Tablet Devices to Hit the Market This Year

From X-bit Labs: ARM, a leading developer of microprocessor technologies for portable and consumer electronics, said at a press conference on Wednesday that this year around 50 tablet PC devices akin to Apple iPad released worldwide. While analysts agree that there may be a lot of...

Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones

From InfoWorld: Motorola will start loading Microsoft's Bing search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China.

It is the second time since Google said it would stop censoring its search...

No Camera on Apple's iPad, After All?

From PC World: A previous version of the iPad SDK included two icons for accepting and declining video chat. These icons had the iPhone look, but they were wide enough to be used on an iPad. 9To5Mac also found some code that references video chat and "iChat."

The most recent SDK...

Opera releases Mini browser beta for Android

From CNET News.com: In a move to expand its franchise to a higher-end frontier of the mobile phone market, Opera Software has released a beta version of Opera Mini 5 for Android.

Opera's Mini and more feature-rich Mobile browsers are widely used in the mobile phone market, but the...

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