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...

Stonesoft, an innovative provider of integrated network security and business continuity solutions, today announced the extended availability of the StoneGate MobileID authentication software token for five additional platforms: Apple Mac OS, iPod, iPhone, iPad and Google Android. Incl...

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...

OpenStack, the new open source kid on the cloud block, has spawned an adjacent front-end project, an OpenStack iPad app based on the Rackspace Cloud Pro iPad app currently in the App Store. The OpenStack iPad app uses OpenStack’s compute and storage APIs to manage compute and storage r...

WorkLight has made available native iOS support for backend enterprise connectivity and secure authentication, allowing developers and IT professionals to easily integrate new iPhone, iPad and iPod apps with enterprise systems. This latest addition to the WorkLight Mobile Platform also...

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...

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...

Geminare on Tuesday announced the availability of iCloudRecovery, an iPhone application that lets partners and end customers manage their entire server ecosystem from their handheld device -- anywhere, any time. Fully integrated with Geminare's Recovery as a Service Platform (RaaS) and...

There’s a second-generation iPad in the works according to DigiTimes that would add 5.6- and 7-inch OLED screens as well as repeat the current 9.7-inch screen. The smaller screens are supposed to be for e-book readers while the 9.7 is more for multimedia. However, OLED supplies are sup...

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...

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve watched in utter amazement the utterly poor response by Apple to the technical design flaws in the iPhone 4 Antennae. Basically if you hold the iPhone with your left hand you run a high risk of dropped calls. When Steve Job’s was confronted by Rory Si...

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. ...

Barclays Capital has cut back on the number of PCs it thinks will ultimately move this year on the theory that the iPad and its ilk will eat into PC volumes. It thinks that 15 million tablets will be sold this year – and with Europe stalling – PC growth will drop from 21% to 19%, wit...

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. ...

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...

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...

Sybase has expanded its support for Apple devices with a full mobile device management and security solution for iOS 4. The release of Sybase Afaria delivers proven, market-leading functionality to empower enterprise IT to effectively manage the proliferation of personally and corporat...

When Steve Jobs said diddley about the Mac at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference some people started writing obits for the widget. It had the Motley Fool, for instance, speculating about the iPhone’s newfangled iOS and the Mac’s OS X eventually merging into a new operating system...

The Federal Trade Commission is going to investigate Apple for anti-competitive practices because it’s shut Adobe Flash out its mobile ecosystem and is now trying to keep Google ads off of IPad and iPhone applications. Bloomberg says the Justice Department and the FTC have been debat...

Apple has picked another fight and the Financial Times says it will draw fire from the antitrust police for barring third-party ad networks that aren’t independent or are affiliated with competitive mobile widgetry – like, oh, say, Microsoft and Google’s recently acquired AdMob – from ...

Gizmodo, the blog that screwed with the grand unveiling of Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone by buying a rogue prototype and writing about it, was noticeably absent from Apple’s developer conference this week, evidently banned and reduced to linking to other people’s reports and feeds f...

Steve Jobs said that Apple started work on the iPad months before it started developing the iPhone, but shelved it to chase the bigger phone market. The disclosure came during a nearly two-hour Q&A with the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the ...

By court order a special master, whose identity is also shrouded by court order, is examining the computers and electronic gear that the cops seized from Gizmodo writer Jason Chen in chasing down the now-famous missing iPhone prototype. It appears there’s no absolutely definitive rul...

Apple said Monday that it has sold over two million iPads in less than two months. It began shipping the dingus, which only launched April 3, in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK over the weekend. Reuters says Japanese and Australian buy...

Quoting Freescale Semiconductor’s director of global consumer segment marketing Gary Burchers, Forbes says that some tablets, netbooks and smartbooks designed to compete with Apple’s iPad and originally due out in time for the holidays have been pushed into early next year around the t...

A licensing outfit called MonkeyMedia endowed with a 100 patents created by its founder Eric Bear has sued Apple in the Western District of Texas charging that the Mac OS X and Safari browser infringe three patents collectively known as the Seamless Contraction patent family. The IP co...

Another supposed iPhone 4G prototype turned up last week on a Vietnamese web site, this one reportedly bought for $4,000 by Taoviet, which of course cracked it open and showed it around à la Gizmodo. Engadget’s convinced it’s real and a closer-to-production model than the one Gizmodo...

You probably know but for the record we should say that last week the notoriously patent-poor HTC complained to the US International Trade Commission in Washington that Apple’s iPhone, iPod and iPad tread on five of its patents, one so new HTC only got the thing the day before it lodge...

Today Sybase introduces a mobility platform that will empower enterprises to engage customers in innovative mobile ways. Transforming Business by Integrating the Most Expansive Framework of Leading Mobility Servers, Mobile Applications and Mobile Services.

In a move that will come as no surprise to anyone, Google is planning to set up an online store for third-party Chrome apps later this year. It’s promising a secure payment system. It’s also got some documentation on how to write Chrome apps for the store but warns that technical d...

Having alienated carriers like Sprint and Verizon by trying to sell its Android-based Nexus One phone direct to the consumer from its google.com/phone online store - Google's attempt to change the traditional cell phone sales model - it's killing the four-month-old store, describing it...

Google said Tuesday that it means to buy Norway's publicly traded VoIP codec house Global IP Solutions Holding AB (GIPS) for $68.2 million cash, a move that could put it in contention with Skype not to mention the telecom companies that are selling its phones. The deal, which repres...

If you’ve been following the hype and excitement around iPhone OS4, the recent launch of iPad and the great success of the iPhone in the enterprise, then you don’t want to miss these in-person seminars in Dallas, Denver and Atlanta in May and June. Sybase offers a full complement of so...

SYS-CON Events announced on Monday that the first International "iPad Summit" (www.ipadsummit.net), will take place November 1, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The Summit is co-located with the 7th International Cloud Expo and the 10th Internat...

SYS-CON Events announced on Monday that "iPad Summit" will take place November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The Summit is co-located with the 7th International Cloud Conference & Expo and the 9th International Virtualization Conference & E...