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Google Gets Gosling, Founder of Java
Google has snatched up Java founder James Gosling. “Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today,” Gosling wrote in a March 28 posting on his blog. “I find it odd that this time I’m taking the road…
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WWDC 2011 Rumor Roundup: iPad 3, OSX Lion, iOS 5
Apple has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will be held June 6 through June 10 in San Francisco, at the Moscone West convention center. At the five-day event, Apple plans to unveil "the future of iOS and Mac OS," it said in a March 28 statement. It’s widely expected that Apple will…
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LG to Launch Google Nexus Honeycomb Tablet
Google has reportedly tapped phone maker LG to build an Android 3.0, or "Honeycomb," for the search engine’s Nexus brand, which has been accorded to two smartphone lines to date. Citing a report from Russian blog Mobile Review, Boy Genius Report said the Nexus tablet would be used as Google’s base for development when it’s…
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Why Customers Prefer iPad over HP TouchPad
Even as HP was demonstrating its HP Touchpad tablet device in a table top exhibit at its Americas Partner Conference in Las Vegas this week, plenty of HP channel partners were walking around at the event toting iPads. That’s because Apple iPad enjoys one extremely tangible benefit over what HP’s Touchpad does right now. Apple’s…
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HP Rolls Touchpad, webOS Phones into PartnerOne
A few weeks ago, HP CEO Leo Apotheker provided his vision of where the industry is headed and how HP will lead the charge to the cloud and an everyone-connected world in his inaugural address to analysts, press and employees. This week, at the HP Americas Partner Conference (HPAPC), in Las Vegas, Apotheker and other…
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Google Creating Mobile Payment Tech: Report
Google is joining Citigroup and Mastercard to set up a mobile payment system that will turn Android phones into a kind of electronic wallet, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The new technology, which is in its early stages, will allow consumers to wave their Android phones in front of…