Lenovo on Thursday unleashed details on its new IdeaPad A1 Android tablet, with the most surprising element being its $199 price tag.
That may be all it needs to get attention in the crowded tablet market.
After HP recently dropped …
Not much has changed in the US mobile market over the past few months: Android is still the leader — accounting for 40 percent of the total smartphone market — and consumers’ desire for the Google OS doesn’t appear to …
Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google China, has just finished a $180 million fund-raise for Innovation Works, a startup incubator for he founded two years ago.
Innovation Works is an accelerator for early-stage web and tech companies in China. …
Microsoft’s director of Bing search, Stefan Weitz doesn’t think being in second place is a bad thing.
He thinks Bing’s progress in the search market should be applauded, especially given the fact that Bing’s only been around for 2 years. …
Though it still has nothing on the Apple or Google mobile app stores, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace now has more than 30,000 applications available for the Windows Phone 7 platform, according to Windows Phone App List.
Microsoft has struggled to …
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Apple is almost certainly making a TV, but it’s probably not aiming to replace the big screen in your living room. Instead, the company will likely start with a product aimed at being your second (or third) television.
It seems …
James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has joined Liquid Robotics, a maker of robot vehicles that explore the bottom of the ocean, as its chief software architect.
Gosling is a former Sun Microsystems fellow who is best …
One of the most popular apps for Android, MoboTap’s Dolphin Browser, landed in Apple’s App Store late last night.
Dolphin first gained recognition as an early alternative to the pre-installed Android browser, and for a long time it was faster …
Austrian blogger/developer Florian Rohrweck, who discovered unreleased Google+ features by exploring the source code, was hired by the company, Rohrweck announced on his blog Monday.
Rohrweck is credited as discovering many Google products that prior to an official announcement, including …
Online ad verification startup DoubleVerify on Tuesday announced it has raised a cool $33 million in a third found of funding.
Companies like DoubleVerify and competitors like AdSafe and AdXpose serve an important role in the increasingly crowded — and …
Get ready for a ride on the Global Internet Speedup Initiative. It’s an alliance of companies who want to make the internet faster by shortening the distance that data has to travel when someone is requesting it.
With the new …
Who needs Galaxy S II? Not Verizon Wireless. The carrier is reportedly planning a far bigger smartphone release from Samsung, the Droid Prime, for this October, according to the mobile news site Boy Genius Report.
Verizon will have exclusive dibs …
Peter Diamandis, the chairman of Singularity University and head of the X Prize Foundation, says that executives had better be aware of exponential technologies like the rapid advances in chips (Moore’s law), biotechnology, or connectivity so that they can use …
A handful of articles this morning argued against the validity of a recently released DoubleClick AdPlanner report showing Facebook reached a trillion page views in June. Both CNN and TG Daily cite contrary data obtained by digital measurement firm comScore, …
Steve Jobs shifted the technology landscape countless times as Apple’s CEO. Now that he’s retired from that role, we’ll also miss the many great moments that his singular personality has brought us.
What follows is a collection of our favorite …
The Google Docs List, the main directory of all of your documents, is apparently having some kind of outage today. On the Google apps status dashboard, Google has marked the Google Docs List as having a “service disruption.” It seems …
Google has added the ability to ignore specific user accounts and strengthened its option to block accounts on its new social network Google+, the company announced in a note Friday.
The new ignore feature should help calm down the often …
Just one week after Slide’s Photovine photosharing app officially debuted, it appears that trouble is afoot for the Google-owned social app startup.
Slide founder Max Levchin (pictured right), who also cofounded PayPal, is leaving Slide and Google, All Things Digital …
Potential employers are going to search for you, it happens. But Google can be a fickle mistress. That’s why Vizibility has raised $1.3 million in a follow-on seed round to give you the Googling power back.
Vizibility has created a …
Starting today, Google is letting users search Google Maps and get directions with just their voices — no typing required.
For now, this new feature relies on Chrome web browser functionality. From the browser, users can simply click the small, …
