Intel is buying Germany’s Infineon Technologies’ profit-struggling wireless baseband chip business for $1.4 billion cash, roughly three times revenues. It’ll give the semi giant a piece of Apple’s ARM-based iPhone business and a position in other Atom-free wireless widgets. ARM is th...

Nokia will be canning its free 10GB mobile cloud-based file-sharing service Ovi Files come October 1 for lack of popularity apparently. Its 1.5 million registered users will have to find other accommodations like maybe Nokia Ovi Suite, which requires a wired connection. Meantime no...

Samsung thinks it’s got an Android 2.2-based iPad clone that’ll eat Apple for lunch. The seven-inch widget’s called the Galaxy Tab and it’s smaller and lighter than the 9.7-inch iPad. As much a big version of the South Korean’s Galaxy S phone as a slate, it’ll take pictures and do vi...

Cisco on Thursday announced its intent to acquire privately held Arch Rock Corporation, a pioneer in Internet Protocol-based wireless network technology for smart-grid applications. Based in San Francisco, Arch Rock will accelerate Cisco's ability to facilitate the utility industry's t...

As Dell and HP slug it out to capture 3PAR, Cisco may be adopting a quieter acquisition style and attempting - according to TechCrunch anyway - to acquire Skype. Citing someone it refers to only as "one of our more reliable sources," the Silicon Valley-based site claims Cisco has alrea...

As though tearing a page out of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe or Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, RIM is running up a tablet called BlackPad that calls to mind the archetypal medieval wild card, the black knight. RIM means to use the embedded Neutrino operating system, a species of Un...

Model Metrics, a provider of cloud computing services for the enterprise, on Tuesday introduced the first mobile cloud platform for the enterprise, enabling business users to take critical business functionality with them, wherever they go. Based on the company's 1,300 plus custom, mob...

Nvidia is developing a tablet chip that’s supposed to compete with Intel widgetry according to two people who talked to Bloomberg. The effort reportedly began after a laptop effort crashed and burned. Supposedly it’s using x86 widgetry it got from the performance-challenged Transmeta f...

In a surprise move Intel is buying McAfee for $7.68 billion, a whopping 60% premium that will be slightly dilutive initially for the semiconductor giant. Intel explained Thursday morning that that the acquisition, part of its mobile wireless strategy, would let it combine securit...

Gomez, the web performance division of Compuware Corporation, on Tuesday introduced new industry benchmark standards for measuring the state of web and mobile site performance against previous performance, key competitors and industry leaders. Gomez's benchmarks, recognized as a compr...

In the first challenge to Apple’s four-month-old iPad scene stealer mounted by a major supplier Dell just started selling its Android-based Streak Tablet in the U.S. this week. Dell unveiled the hybrid device in January. It’s part phone, part Internet device, part MP3, good for e-mai...

Engadget heard that HP PC chief Todd Bradley, currently the leading inside candidate to replace ousted CEO Mark Hurd, dropped the first quarter as the timing for HP’s release of Hurricane, its Palm webOS-based tablet, during an all-hands company meeting last week, part of HP’s Hurd-det...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made it quite clear 16 months ago when he said he was buying Sun that he expected to clean up on embedded mobile Java – widgetry Sun never turned much of a buck on – so it should come as no great surprise to anybody that he’s suing Google and its problematic An...

Google says it’s going dump its Android Market copy-protection mechanism over the next few months. Instead it’s going to try to lock down paid third-party Android apps against unauthorized use with a new real-time licensing service that would provide ISVs with set of protective libra...

Facing what looks like a tablet tsunami and already feeling stiff competition from Apple’s $499–$829 iPad, Amazon Thursday pushed its purpose-built black-on-white Kindle e-book reader into the mass market by announcing two comparatively cheap next-generation versions of the dingus. Ha...

Apple says it still can’t deliver any white iPhone 4s because they “continue to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year.” A week ago Steve Jobs said they would be out at the end of the month. Appar...

On behalf of RTL interactive, Netbiscuits, a software platform for the development, operation and monetization of mobile Web sites and apps, has developed an iPhone app for RTL Television, Germany’s most successful private television station. Netbiscuits developed the app in the form o...

Nokia has reportedly been interviewing for a new chief executive to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the guy it wants to dump. The Wall Street Journal says the board could make a choice by the end of the month. Nokia has no answer for the iPhone or Android, its market share and market...

Apple posted its best quarter ever Tuesday Antennagate notwithstanding. Revenues were $15.7 billion, up 61% year-over-year, a billion dollars ahead of expectations, and 52% from international sales. Earnings were up 78% to $3.25 billion, or $3.51 a share versus expectations of $...

Amid the antennagate kafuffle, an unrepentant Apple is supposed to start selling iPads in nine more countries on Friday, namely, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Holland, Mexico, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. The company said “many more countries” would follow. The devi...

Royally trumped in the tablet business that it couldn’t get off the ground – while Apple made it look easy – Microsoft is promising to return in force underneath the slates that 21 companies are supposed to put out within the year to dip their bread in the bubbling Apple-made gravy. ...

Looking for growth and global expansion, NTT, Japan’s giant telecom, is buying South Africa’s $4 billion-a-year IT services and support company Dimension Data Holdings (DiData) for about $3.2 billion cash. That’s an 18% premium to its share price. DiData’s geographic reach is pretty ...

Silicon Valley Insider thinks it’s identified the companies that tried to buy Palm and didn’t. Remember Companies A through D that Palm talked about in the merger proxy filed with the SEC? Well, the blog thinks Company A, which offered $600 million cash, was Apple. It was Apple’s sec...

Apple’s resident antenna expert Ruben Caballero warned CEO Steve Jobs last year that using a bezel antenna in the iPhone 4 could create reception problems and dropped calls, according to an unattributed story put out by Bloomberg. Another source told the wire service that an iPhone c...

Catching flak for arrogance and shoddy PR, Apple has whistled up what looks like an emergency triage press conference for hand-picked reporters at 10am Friday morning Left Coast time at its Silicon Valley headquarters. It presumably means to stem the unaccustomed lost of reputation...

According to a new report by comScore which ranks the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers and smartphone operating system platforms in the U.S, Android's share of the US smartphone market increased 4 percent during the period between February and May of 2010. The report ind...

NTP Inc, the patent troll that nicked Research in Motion and its Blackberry for a cool $612.5 million in 2006, sued Apple, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, LG Electronics and HTC last Thursday charging their smartphones infringe the same Ur-wireless e-mail patents that RIM ran afoul of. ...

Coraid, the Ethernet SAN start-up, has gotten caught in the legal crossfire between NetApp and Sun Microsystems and has pulled its new EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliances bundled with Nexenta’s ZFS distribution off the market at NetApp’s insistence. NetApp, remember, is suing Sun clai...

An April 2009 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project asked respondents whether they had used a variety of devices – laptops, cell phones, game consoles, and more – to go online using a wireless network. Altogether, 56% of Americans said they have...

SoftLayer Technologies, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, on Tuesday announced the recent release of its SoftLayer Mobile Client for Android. The application brings much of the functionality of SoftLayer’s highly valued Customer Portal in a native client for Andro...

Certeon, a provider of virtualized software-based WAN optimization and application acceleration, on Tuesday announced it has signed a distribution agreement with CDG, a major distributor of leading-edge information technology in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe. CDG specializes...

newScale, the guys with the self-service IT storefronts for the enterprise, says that Cable & Wireless Worldwide is going to use its portal-based FrontOffice Suite along with Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) as well as technologies from VMware and EMC in the private and hybrid Ia...

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to head out to San Francisco, CA for Apple's WWDC and I decided to, in parallel, test one of my recent Tweets (Twitter: @ithain) which posed the question… "Can you rely on an iPad for a business trip?". OK, I did slightly move the goal posts, by ad...

This week I was reading the Linked-In Group “SAP Mobility – Mobilizing Business on the Move”. The question posed to the group “Which smartphone/PDA mobile platform, in your opinion, will dominate the market in five years Microsoft ( Mobile 7), Google (Android) or Apple (Iphone)?” seems...

Apple said Monday that more than 1.7 million of the new iPhone 4 had sold between Thursday when the device, now apparently in spotty supply, hit the stores and closing time Saturday. It’s unclear whether the historic number includes the 600,000 the company said had been pre-ordered. ...

Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference....

Apple’s new iPhone 4 went on sale Thursday in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan and the punters are expecting hear that a million of them sold and are thinking maybe 10 million by the end of September. Like the old Model T, you can have any color you want so long as it’s black. App...

So it was only two weeks ago in San Francisco, at Apple's WWDC, that the iPhone 4's launch date of June 24 was set in front of 5,200 Worldwide Developers (from 57 countries) and the World's Press, I was lucky enough to be their and take it from me, there was a very large throng of repo...

AT&T has pre-sold 600,000 iPhone 4 devices - in fact they suspended pre-orders after one day due to overwhelming demand. With the massive interest in the iPhone, we know that new phones will be in enterprises in a matter of weeks. In addition, the number of current iPhone users who al...

Sybase on Tuesday announced the results of a survey gauging consumer opinion on the forthcoming iPhone 4 and iOS 4 software, finding that many of the new features are expected to increase the use of iPhone as a business tool. Over half of respondents who currently own an iPhone said th...