Google headquarters must be all high-fives this week. Just hours after the European Commission cleared the company’s proposed acquisition of Motorola, the US department of justice has given its approval to the deal as well. “The division concluded that the specific transactions at issue are
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Mozilla has decided to begin work on a touch-enabled version of its popular Firefox Web browser for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system, the company revealed yesterday. Windows 8 allows companies to develop applications for its touch-based Metro interface as well as
As if Research in Motion (RIM) needed more controversy surrounding its appointment of new CEO Thorston Heins, now a company director is arguing that it simply couldn’t have chosen a new CEO from outside the company earlier because the only
Internet dating sites claim to have brought science to the age-old question of how to pair off successfully. But have they? For as long as humans have romanced each other, others have wanted to meddle. Whether those others were parents, priests, friends or bureaucrats, their motive was
After sticking with a fairly consistent unibody MacBook Pro design for some time, Apple may be gearing up to bring design elements from its popular MacBook Air line into its more powerful models later this year. The company is preparing a “top-to-bottom revamp” of the MacBook Pro lineup that will
The late Steve Jobs was honoured with a Grammy Trustees Award on Saturday for his contributions to the music industry, which included helping to develop the iPod and reshaping the way music is sold with the iTunes Store. The award is meant to
Microsoft’s plan to bring Windows to ARM chips has been a curious endeavor, mainly because the company hasn’t offered many specifics about how the new version of Windows will differ from the traditional x86 and 64-bit versions of the operating system. That all changed on Thurdsay with
As scandals go, it is a corker. It involves secret recordings of lobbyists talking to tycoons about ministers, fraudulent documents, unrelated firms that share the same e-mail address, clueless foreigners piling into a vast market, bank drafts with dates that make no sense, PR flacks taped schmoozing
How far does an iPad get you on the road in Africa, perhaps the toughest continent for travellers? Your correspondent spent a month finding out, while journeying 8 000km overland in eastern and southern Africa, two of the continent’s better connected regions. Between Nairobi in Kenya and Cape Town
At any randomly selected point, one in 12 airline passengers in the US is using a tablet computer or e-reader. That’s one of the findings reported in a new study on the use of electronic devices on aeroplanes, trains and buses by the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul