Facebook Inc. (FB) spends a smallerpercentage of revenue on engineering than other Internetcompanies, mimicking Apple (AAPL) Inc.’s strategy of keeping costs lowby relying on outside developers for research and development. Facebook devoted 10 percent of its sales to R&D spendinglast year, a fraction of the level of some other…

TOYMAKER FOR THE WELL HEELED Apple is charging $130 for the $42 LTE module on the new Ipad while WiFi models show a slight decrease in gross margins. Apple’s third Ipad means yet another opportunity for fanbois to pay over the odds for a shiny gadget that has a gross margin to…

We have already seen Twitter and social media make a significant impact in college football. Athletes have the ability to speak their minds in 140 characters, free from the watchful eyes of their coaches and sports information directors. Some have forced their coaches to bar players from using Twitter because But…

Twitter sometimes gets it first — whether the recent death of Whitney Houston, Hudson River plane crash, or the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Despite being an important part of the news cycle, Twitter and Facebook, are still not big news sources for most people, a study reveals. Just 9 percent Instead…

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The buzz around Windows 8 is all about the redesigned “Metro” interface, but that’s not the only cool thing to be found in the Consumer Preview version Microsoft released last month. The tiles and text-heavy design constitute the most obvious change, but this overhaul of Windows includes some other features that…

The Apple rumor mill tends to work in cycles. With the iPad announcement and release now behind us, all eyes will next be turning to Apple’s next major product launch – the iPhone 5. Though if you believe some reports, Apple’s next-gen iPhone will simply be called “iPhone.” But looking out…

Parramatta coach Stephen Kearney maintains he is the right man for the job and dismissed claims he has turned the struggling Eels side into a team of robots. Saturday’s 42-6 humiliation against North Queensland was the Eels’ third successive defeat – the first time the club has lost its first…

As it does with every new Apple product, iSuppli has taken the mystery out of how much money Apple is making on each new iPad. Though total costs are, on average, 9% higher than the iPad 2, with most of the increase going into the Retina Display, Apple still has A 16GB…

Around Android circles Asus is known for its Transformer series of tablets. But in the computer world, one of their most notable accomplishments of recent years is the Eee PC line, which basically invented the netbook segment and (formerly) lent its name to everything from all-in-one computers to tablets. Appropriately,…