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Google confirmed that its Goggles visual search application would be coming to Apple’s iPhone soon and also said it would release APIs for its image recognition, according to this scoop from ReadWriteWeb. The image a user snaps with his or her camera is a query that gets sent to Google’s cloud computing data centers and […]

The rise of Asian-based original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) led the worldwide PC market to rise an impressive 22.7 percent in the first quarter of 2010, according to market research firm iSuppli. Asus, Acer, Toshiba and Lenovo all experienced strong year-over-year growth, the report shows. A report from iSuppli shows Asian computer makers displaying impressive sales […]

IT market research firm AMI-Partners says 2009 was the turning point in which medium-size businesses moved fully into the virtualization space. The survey found the percentage of U.S. MBs that consider server virtualization strategically important has increased from 46 percent to 75 percent. Melissa Chong, manager of managed services at AMI, said 2009 was the […]

(Reuters) – Apple Inc unveiled a new iPhone on Monday that goes on sale in scores of countries this year, preparing its fastest-ever global roll-out to try and stay a step ahead of rivals like Google Inc in a red-hot smartphone market. CEO Steve Jobs showed off a redesigned $199 "iPhone 4" that is a […]

(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s next-generation iPhone, which CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to unveil on Monday, will have to really set new standards in multimedia content and function to wow Wall Street and consumers. Apple’s challenge may be to dream up game-changing innovations, since the iPhone is already an unqualified blockbuster that is the […]

(Reuters) – Verizon Wireless could be prepared to follow AT&T Inc’s (NYSE:T) lead and change how it charges wireless subscribers to download data — but analysts say other carriers may be better served by standing their ground in the latest pricing upheaval. AT&T’s move on Wednesday to halve mobile data fees for most customers — […]

(Reuters) – Hackers have planted viruses in video games for smartphones running on Microsoft Corp’s Windows operating system, according to a security firm specializing in mobile devices. The games — 3D Anti-Terrorist and PDA Poker Art — are available on sites that provide legitimate software for mobile devices, according to John Hering, CEO of San […]

BillShrink, a search engine that compares millions of product and service options against consumer needs, released the results of a study showing small business owners could end up paying more than $420 million in incremental finance charges this year because their cards aren’t getting the same protections as consumer cards. The company surveyed more than […]

In a June 3 statement on the partnership, the six explained that open-source software communities have traditionally faced a problem of limited choices in processor platforms. With the formation of Linaro, the hope is to make it quicker and easier to develop advanced products by creating software commonalities across ARM-based semiconductor SoCs (system-on-chips). Along with […]

Former Facebook privacy officer Chris Kelly has joined the ranks of public officials taking Facebook to task over privacy issues. Kelly is not the first politician to call for Facebook to make changes recently. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) made headlines in late April when he requested the Federal Trade Commission set privacy guidelines for social […]

According to the 2010 IT Hire Intelligence Survey conducted by Monster.com, an online career and recruitment resource on behalf of technology services provider Technisource, the majority of survey respondents said they are confident that their company’s performance will improve across the same time period. Among the key findings, 76 percent of respondents have confidence that […]

He linked mobile broadband and innovation and promised to work toward increasing the available spectrum for the technology, which he said should be “unleashed.” During the D8 tech conference, Genachowski told WSJ tech reporter Walt Mossberg that deploying 4G wireless networks would help allow the United States to catch up with other industrialized nations that […]