Intel’s Atom chips, once suited for powering anemic set-top boxes and tablet PCs, have been dramatically improved. Unfortunately, their biggest competitor is sitting right next to them: Intel’s Core chips for PCs. Intel announced a new revision to the Atom chips, known as “Silvermont,” this week, something that consumers should cheer about. Like an engine [...]

Nokia thinks it has the perfect summer smartphone for you. Today, the Finnish smartphone maker announced the Lumia 928, a Windows Phone with a 4.5-inch display, improved camera capabilities and sound capabilities. The Lumia 928 will be available through Verizon starting next week for $99 on a two-year contract. Yet, if you are thinking that [...]

All the computers on the International Space Station that used to run Windows XP now run Linux, reports Extreme Tech. The reason: Microsoft’s OS just wasn’t “stable and reliable” enough, according to the United Space Alliance, the spaceflight operations company that manages the hardware onboard the ISS in conjunction with NASA.   Image courtesy of [...]

Notorious activist investor Carl Icahn has officially filed an offer for Dell that would let investors keep their stake in the company while forcing out CEO and founder Michael Dell. See his full interview with Bloomberg below:

Google Glass is now “unofficially officially” out in the wild, early reviews are in, and they’re not spectacular. I’ve been a Glass skeptic from the start, but now I’m just going to come right out and say it: If the developer version is at all an accurate representation of what Glass will look like as [...]

Who needs apps? Microsoft buying Nook Media would be a a brilliant move: Microsoft would add millions of e-books that consumers want, to supplement tens of thousands of apps that, well, they don’t. Is Microsoft About To Buy Nook For $1 Billion? TechCrunch reported Thursday that Microsoft is considering paying $1 billion for Nook Media, [...]

The Amazon smartphone is a rumor that just will not die. Citing unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is working on building two smartphones — one of which would be a high-end device with 3D visual capabilities where images would appear to float above the screen without the need of 3D glasses. Users could reportedly control [...]

SlideShare, a hub for online presentations that LinkedIn acquired a year ago, just crossed a milestone: Its users have uploaded a total of 10 million presentations. And in the process, it’s become an indispensable resource for what some say is a big challenge: helping businesspeople communicate and explain the value of what they do. Andrew Dumont, [...]

Guest author Derek Brown is a technology executive and analyst who blogs at One Blind Squirrel. Pinterest is a three-year-old start-up with what is rumored to be no revenue to date. Zero. In fact, by all accounts, it hasn’t even attempted to generate revenue yet. In three years! Hard to fathom in this day and [...]

The developer-focused social network App.net has released a new iOS app dubbed Passport. Founder Dalton Caldwell writes that the app allows users to establish an App.net account, find and follow other users, and discover and download other apps for App.net. The Passport app does not, however, include posting or messaging capabilities, a deliberate choice intended [...]

It’s official: patent litigation is a fool’s game. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the past few years of patent litigation in the mobile industry have yielded participants very little, as courts have swatted down suits on the basis of prior art, obviousness of the technology or other reasons. However, Microsoft, by quietly, consistently [...]

Working on the Internet every day, you start to have certain suspicions about how it affects the way you think and process information. Turns out, there’s something to that. Readers of Nicholas Carr’s 2010 book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains will certainly confirm this. While the Internet is a fantastic [...]