Apple founder and ex-CEO Steve Jobs died at the age of 56, Apple said on its website. The cause of death was not disclosed, but Jobs struggled with cancer since 2003. He underwent a successful surgery in 2004 and a liver transplantation in 2008. Jobs is credited with being the mastermind of the company’s iconic [...]

By the time the market closed last day, IBM’s market cap, a measure of the value of a company derived from the total shares a company has outstanding, multiplied by its stock price hit $214 billion. Microsoft’s market cap ended the day at $213.2 billion. Lost amid the talk of Apple’s soaring market capitalization is [...]

This report may have been confirmed by an announcement that the LiMo Foundation and the Linux Foundation will building a new open source platform called Tizen. Which is scheduled for a Q1 2012 release. The OS will be targeting smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems. There has been no official confirmation that [...]

According to a typically cryptic invitation sent out to the media on Tuesday, Apple will host an iPhone event at its headquarters in San Francisco next week. Apple will unveil the next-generation iPhone 5 on 4 October. The unveiling is also expected by many to include a simpler version of last year’s iPhone 4  which [...]

As a first step in the partnership Canon will work with Oracle to integrate its business copiers and printers with the software giant’s database and server products. Canon subsidiary IT Solutions will sell a new platform that easily links products like Canon’s image Runner Advance copiers with Oracle’s database. Web Logic and other offerings, the [...]

The plural of iPhones was an “s” heard around the world, though his comments were made at today’s Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in South Africa. Former Vice President Al Gore may have hinted Apple will unveil two phones at its long-anticipated October 4 launch date. Not to mention the new iPhones coming out next month. [...]

Japan Airlines will begin adding WiFi internet access to international flights between Japan. North America and Europe from summer 2012. Based on Panasonic’s eXConnect system. The in-flight access will be a paid service available to all classes of passenger, though Japan Airlines is yet to confirm exactly how much it will cost. The WiFi system will [...]

The Part of that optimization will be a plugin free experience, meaning Metro IE10 will be primarily HTML5 and will not support browser plugins, including Flash. Windows 8 will have two versions of Internet Explorer 10, a desktop version and the Metro version, which is optimized for tablets. The experience that plug-ins provide today is [...]

In the war between Apple and Google, the ammunition comes in the form of patents and let’s just say that Google has been busy with some stockpiling. The latest acquisition by Google consists of 1,023 patents from IBM. Apple has been busy suing several of Google’s hardware partners, like HTC and Samsung, so Google is [...]

The ViewPad 10pro is one of the first tablets that is powered by Intel’s new 1.5GHz Atom processor Z670, which is designed specifically for tablets. The processor is designed to lower power consumption while also enabling smaller and thinner product designs. the ViewPad 10pro dual OS interface as quick and intuitive as possible, while partnering [...]