Let’s face it: the Nikon Coolpix S800c is just plain weird. Why should a 16-megapixel CMOS shooter allow you to surf the Web, access Twitter, and upload photos to Facebook? OK, so the last option makes some sense. Still, not every embedded or mobile OS allows for the freedoms…

UK Company Launches GoNote, the UK’s First Touchscreen Android Hybrid Netbook, Aims to Help Students Make the ‘A’ Grade Today the dual function 10″ GoNote is officially launched, creating a new product category. The netbook is the UK’s first combining a traditional ‘laptop’ layout with a ‘tablet’ style touchscreen, running “inadequate…

By Ari Levy and Brian Womack – 2012-08-23T04:01:00Z Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Clarium Capital Management LLC Chairman, Peter Thiel, in Washington. Peter Thiel’s decision to sellalmost all of his stake in Facebook Inc. (FB) so soon after company’sinitial public offering has few precedents in Silicon Valley,where venture…

Labor Day will mark a milestone in the life of location-based company Foursquare as it kicks off a pilot program allowing brands to pay for “promoted updates” advertising messages to consumers who are in the vicinity of a restaurant, store or other business. In an interesting twist, participating brands won’t…

Windows Phone 8 Preview: A Visual Tour Verizon Wireless will offer a Windows Phone 8 smartphone made by Nokia, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. It will sell the device by the end of the year. Scoring a distribution deal with Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest mobile network operator, is Nokia and…

Facebook Inc. has had a rocky initial public offering of stock. There were trading glitches on its first day of trading and concerns since then about Facebook’s revenue potential. Facebook also is facing dozens of lawsuits from disgruntled shareholders. In recent days, some early investors became eligible to sell additional…

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz sold off a small portion of his stake in the company, scoring him nearly $9 million. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Dustin Moskovitz, one of Facebook’s four co-founders, is cashing in a tiny part of his more than $2 billion stake. Moskovitz sold off 450,000 shares in 150,000-share increments Moskovitz…

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If you have $22,000, you’ll be able to get what could be the world’s largest 4K HDTV next month, when LG launches its 84-inch, ultra high-definition HDTV, according to the BBC. The new screen, which doesn’t have a U.S. model number yet, is four times the resolution of a standard HDTV…

Research In Motion (RIMM) has had an incredibly difficult time getting QNX-based devices to work with the company’s existing systems. The reason the BlackBerry PlayBook shipped without email and BlackBerry Messenger, among the other missing items, is because a QNX device won’t work on the company’s NOC like the older…