Terri Dial, former Citigroup exec, died in Miami
Terri Dial, whose work on the reshaping of Citigroup Inc. in 2008 culminated a three-decade banking career that made her a much-watched woman in business, has died. She was 62. She died Tuesday in a hospice in Miami, said a friend and family spokeswoman. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. In 27 years at […]
Can Microsoft make Windows 8 the mobile OS?
It may seem odd that Microsoft executives are traveling all the way to Barcelona, Spain, to debut the beta version of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system at a mobile device show. But Microsoft, which has launched drugs and mobile phones lengthy prior to competitors simplest to see others dominate the ones businesses, is hoping […]
We must ‘double down’ on tablets, win the market – Android chief
Android is far behind Apple’s iPad in total units sold, but Andy Rubin says 2012 could be the year where that changes. Speaking today at cellular global Congress in Barcleona, Google’s Android leader said that customers have activated 12 million Android-primarily based tablets to this point. in keeping with The Verge, which first reported on […]
FCC Grudgingly Hangs Up On LightSquared Over GPS Concerns
LightSquared suffered a potentially fatal blow today after the Federal Communications Commission said it would indefinitely suspend the company’s license to turn on a combined satellite/terrestrial communications network because it would interfere with GPS systems operating on neighboring radio bands. The FCC had little choice after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration concluded there was no […]
Cracking Open Google Wallet
It turns out that stealing someone’s Google Wallet funds isn’t that much more difficult than stealing that person’s actual wallet, according to a few recently publicized exploits. I think these types of vulnerabilities threaten to kill the adoption of NFC before it is even fully born, said the Yankee Group’s Carl D. Howe. All forms […]
HP To Support Solaris On ProLiant Servers, Blades
Hewlett-Packard will sell and support Sun Microsystems’ Solaris on ProLiant servers at the same level it currently does with Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. The two generation companies, who compete within the server hardware trade, on Wednesday unveiled the expansion of a multiyear partnership settlement beneath which HP will distribute and provide technical enhance […]
Facebook’s Zuckerberg may face $2B tax hit
Facebook’s upcoming IPO will make founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire — but it will also stick him with an eye-popping tax bill that could reach as high as $2 billion. Industry experts say that might be one for the record books. “I personally have never seen a bill into the billions — close, […]
Obama hosts Google ‘hangout’
While reaching out to supporters through probably the most latest high-tech means, President Obama extended his social media enjoy via retaining a Google+ video chat room interview on Monday afternoon. In an election year, it’s most certainly no longer good politics to talk about what you sit up for doing after it slow within the […]
MegaUpload lawyer: U.S. misunderstands the business
A lawyer representing MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom denied his client has engaged in piracy and told a New Zealand judge the U.S. completely misunderstands the nature of his business. DotCom, along with three other men accused of serving to him run MegaUpload, appeared in court to plead for bail after he was once arrested Thursday […]
Yahoo’s Yang is gone. That was the easy part
Separating Jerry Yang from Yahoo is the easy part. Yang co-founded the Internet pioneer 17 years ago along with David Filo, following the well-trodden path from Stanford student to tech stardom. But yesterday Yahoo announced Yang is leaving, stepping down from his chief Yahoo post and the company’s board. Yang has overseen, sometimes directly, years […]
Vint Cerf: Internet access isn’t a human right
Although some countries around the world argue that Internet access is a fundamental right, one of the “fathers of the Internet,” Vint Cerf, doesn’t see it that way. “Technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself,” Cerf, who is also a Google’s chief Internet evangelist, wrote yesterday in an editorial in The New […]
New CEO: Yahoo will reclaim its tech leadership
Yahoo will develop into a generation massive once more, serving to to shape how people use the internet within the next decade, incoming chief govt Scott Thompson promised these days. The web has changed so much within the remaining twenty years, nevertheless it’s actually still in its infancy, he mentioned in his first public feedback […]
Carvalho Plan Could Make All Schools Wireless
Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants his schools to have wireless Internet and announced a plan Wednesday that could secure the funding needed to make his wish a reality. The plan Carvalho announced will be for the Miami-Dade community to raise $7 million. If the community can lift the cash, the federal government will fit the […]