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Google Inc launched a service to make it easy for publishers to sell digital versions of newspapers and magazines, undercutting a similar plan launched by Apple Inc, as both tech titans battle to dominate smartphones and tablet computers. Google announced in a blog post on Wednesday its plan to woo newspapers and magazines, a day […]

Taiwan’s Acer Inc, the world’s second-largest PC vendor, expects the market for mobile PCs to grow 10-12 percent in 2011, driven by emerging markets, its chief Gianfranco Lanci said on Monday. "The economy is coming back. Consumers are still spending," Lanci told Reuters in an interview. In developed markets PC sales growth halted last Christmas […]

Back in October, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the unusual step of participating in his company’s earnings call. Competing tablets had no chance against the iPad, he told assembled media and analysts, particularly those with a 7-inch form factor. “Almost all [competing devices] use 7-inch screens as opposed to the iPad’s almost 10-inch screen.” He […]

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo dismissed as rumors reports that Google and Facebook have offered to purchase the microblog service, the latest in an acquisition story with a long tail. The Wall Street Journal rekindled the rumor when it said Google and Facebook help low-level talks with Twitter about buying the company for $8 billion to […]

While it initially looked like a rout, the humans clawed their way back during the first round of Jeopardy! and forced IBM’s supercomputer to tie for the lead. The first segment of the long-anticipated two-game Jeopardy tournament between former Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, and Watson aired on Feb. 14. Watson and Rutter […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Dell Inc’s (NASDAQ:DELL) quarterly earnings and margins blew past Wall Street expectations as component costs slid and corporations replaced aging technology, propelling its shares 6 percent higher. Its forecast for a 5 to 9 percent rise in current fiscal-year revenue also modestly surpassed Street targets. Dell executives expressed full […]

(Reuters) – Taiwan’s Acer Inc, the world’s second-largest PC vendor, expects the market for mobile PCs to grow 10-12 percent in 2011, driven by emerging markets, its chief Gianfranco Lanci said on Monday. "The economy is coming back. Consumers are still spending," Lanci told Reuters in an interview. Acer unveiled on Monday three new smartphone […]

(Reuters) – Samsung launched a second tablet computer on Sunday, with a bigger screen and more processing power than the original Galaxy Tab that is seen as the only real rival to Apple’s iPad. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is intended to be a multimedia hub for afficionados of games, electronic books and social media, with […]

(Reuters) – The shotgun marriage of Nokia and Microsoft’s smartphone platforms puts software developers at center stage at the annual Mobile World Congress starting on Monday in Barcelona. Last week, Nokia and Microsoft, the global leaders in mobile phones and software, announced a wide-ranging alliance which they hope will give them a chance of building […]

Feb 14 (Reuters Legal) – Technology communications company VoIP Inc sued Google Inc. in New York Supreme Court on Monday, accusing the Internet giant of stealing its trade secrets related to online voice technology. The litigation stems from a September 2005 contract in which, according to the complaint, VoIP’s Los Angeles-based subsidiary, VoiceOne Communications Corp, […]

(Reuters) – Frustrated with slow mobile Internet speeds and stalling videos, consumers are willing to dole out extra cash for better telecommunicaitons services, allowing more pricing room for operators, a global report showed on Monday. "2011 will see operators asserting more control over mobile data with the implementation of policy management and measurement tools as […]

(Reuters) – Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, will release its PlayBook tablet computer on two more high-speed network standards in the second half of 2011, the company said on Monday. The move to offer LTE and HSPA+ versions of its PlayBook guarantees access the most advanced wireless data networks in the world, […]