Exclusive: BlackBerry bidders may want to carve up business sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A handful of potential bidders, including private equity firms, are lining up to look at BlackBerry Ltd, but initial indications suggest that interest is tepid and buyers are eyeing parts of the Canadian smartphone maker rather than the whole company, several sources familiar with the situation…
Why in the World Would You Need a 64-bit Smartphone?
Let’s answer that question straight up front: you don’t. Not today, where nothing exists that’ll take advantage of the 64-bit architecture in Apple’s A7 processor not in a meaningful way. Apple’s rightly claiming it has the first phone-based 64-bit chip, but it’s also future-proofing a little like noting a TV…
Turn Your Smartphone Into a Microscope With Single Lens
Smartphone users who are itching to photograph objects too small for the naked eye can rest assured the Micro Phone Lens turns your iPhone or Android camera phone into a portable handheld microscope. The Micro Phone Lens is a soft lens that sticks directly onto the camera lens on the…
Nuclear options: Microsoft was testing Surface Phone while Nokia experimented …
An example of what a Surface Phone might have looked like. Image credit: Jonas Daehnert (deviantART) Microsoft and Nokia need each other more than you’d expect. While Nokia was testing Android in a variety of different ways, Microsoft was busy experimenting with a Surface Phone. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans…
TiVo Network PVR puts Roamio recording technology in the cloud
Bringing TiVo(R) Roamio DVR Experience to the Cloud; Network Recordings Seamlessly Integrated, Easily Searchable via the Brilliant TiVo User Interface; Cloud-Based Management, Lower CAPEX and Control a Key Next Step in the IP Transition for Operators AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS–(Marketwired – Sep 11, 2013) – TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), a The…
Developer wake-up call: Shift from iOS 6 to iOS 7 is ‘biggest since the …
Apple formally launched iOS 7 yesterday, and hundreds of thousands of developers around the world are finally, frantically figuring out that the new mobile operating system they’ve had access to for three months in beta form will require significant changes to their apps. And they’re not ready. “We have companies coming…
Twitter Is Going Public. Here’s How It Makes Money.
As long anticipated, Twitter is going public. It almost goes without saying that the social network broke the news on Twitter. Its announcement came in five characters under the microblogging site’s 140-character cutoff: The offering is expected to be the tech world’s largest since Facebook went public in May 2012. Like…
TiVo’s ‘Network PVR’ Eyes Bring-Your-Own Cloud Model,
Prototype Ties In Harmonic Multiscreen Transcoders, Streaming Servers And Shared Storage Systems TiVo’s budding “Network PVR” platform won’t rely on a cloud-based storage system that is built and managed by the company, but will instead require service providers to handle key elements such as storage, transcoding, local caching and connections…
How to get a piece of Twitter’s IPO
Twitter’s logo on a computer screen in London in September 2011.(Photo: Leon Neal, AFP/Getty Images)Story HighlightsInvestors remain largely in the dark on how many shares of Twitter might be available to themSome think Twitter might follow recent IPOs in making 20% of shares available to the publicMore details from brokers…
iPhone 5C
Last night marked a break from tradition for Apple it unveiled not one, but two new iPhones, including the vibrantly colourful iPhone 5C. How does the iPhone 5C stack up to the competition and the iPhone 5S?Price The iPhone 5C was rumoured to be a “cheap” iPhone, and while…
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