Struggling with dwindling sales numbers while addressing the continued onslaught of Apple smartphones and their cheaper counterparts powered by Google’s Android, Finnish mobile giant Nokia aims to arrest its sliding market shares by refocusing its energy towards the lucrative Asian market.
Video game developer Sega Corp apparently became the latest victim of a network breach as the hacking free for all continues.
Activision on Thursday announced that Annihilation, the third piece of downloadable content pack of Call of Duty: Black Ops will be available for Xbox 360 on June 28. The pack will be available for PlayStation 3 and Windows PC a month later.
Microsoft is preparing the developer channel for release of Internet Explorer 9 Mobile, which is coming with Windows Phone "Mango" sometime in the Fall.
With the public outcry over Facebook's facial recognition feature growing ever louder, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen is now requesting a meeting with the social networking site. In a letter sent to Facebook, he says the company's failure to provide an opt-in "overlooked a critical component of consumer privacy protection."
It's taken a long time. A very, very long time. But, at last, the latest Chrome 13 beta sees the browser finally gain a Print Preview function. And this isn't just some half-finished beta version, either -- it's really quite impressive.
Sometimes the most brilliant moments in marketing are the simplest ideas. In the video above, a youngster dance, dance, dances before Xbox 360. Microsoft smartly uses Kinect to connect with customers. The action takes place at Microsoft Store Bellevue, Wash.
This week, Mozilla's whirlwind release cycle yielded the first release candidate of Firefox 5 in the beta channel, just a matter of a week before the final version is expected to be released.
The days of needing to use Friendly or other third-party applications to access Facebook on the iPad may be soon over.
Bitcoins have become popular as an alternative to government-controlled currencies, but a new Trojan seems to be specifically targeting Bitcoin wallets in an attempt to steal funds, security firm Symantec warns.
I love Microsoft Outlook. I know a lot of people hate it, but I'm inclined to believe that they don't use Outlook well enough.
Another Father's Day is upon us, and you must be wondering what to give dear old dad. Mom seems to get all the love, while dad suffers with socks, ties and aftershave for Christmas that he doesn't need; he gets not much better on his special day.
Marco Arment's post, "The Android tablet problem, nicely summarized by one review's conclusion", stirred up some fierce debate here at Betanews on Friday.
Paul Ceglia claims that in 2003 he signed a contract with Mark Zuckerberg that entitles him to half the holdings of Facebook Inc.'s co-founder and CEO. Last week, Ceglia said he underwent a polygraph test in New York last week to prove his claim. Now he wants to Zuckenberg to undertake the same lie detector test.
The Canada-based company has confirmed it will release the new touch BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 in late August this year.
The new Bold looks a lot like the previous version, but boasts of a 2.8" touch screen and claims to be the thinnest Blackberry phone yet. It has dimensions of 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm, and weighs approximately 130 grams.
Nortel Networks Inc. has received significant level of interest in patents that can be used for smartphone technology. Accordingly, it postponed an action sanctioned by a bankruptcy court in the United States from June 20 to June 27, at 9:00 a.m.Apple Inc., the maker of the iPad and the iPhone will be trying to outbid Google Inc. for the tech portfolio, Bloomberg News reports, citing two people familiar with knowledge of the matter said.
The LulzSec said in its web site that after hacking hacked Sony Corp., the U.S. Senate, an FBI affiliate, the Public Broadcasting System, gaming sites, and online porn sites, the hack attacks will continue until "we're brought to justice, which we might well be."
American Airlines announced during that week it will deploy 6,000 of Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 10.1 devices on-board select flights beginning later this year. The tablets will replace the airline's current personal entertainment device in American's premium cabins on transcontinental flights between New York's JFK and Los Angeles, JFK and San Francisco, and, Miami and Los Angeles served with 767-200 and 767-300 aircraft; international flights to and from Europe, and South America ser...
The viral video that sparked a love and hate reaction towards the young singer is no longer available on YouTube for viewing.
Apple started selling unlocked iPhones on Tuesday in the US that allows owners to switch carriers when travelling. This is good news for US users but what does this mean for Aussies who have to buy unlocked iPhones at $300 Australian dollars more than their US counterparts? This means that resourceful Australians can buy the cheaper US version of the iPhone and use it in Australia.
If you were one of those users who enjoyed the Les Paul guitar doodle on Google last week then you could be guilty of costing the world $268 in lost productivity.
National Broadband Network (NBN) CEO Mike Quigley has been the victim of a Coalition smear campaign that has cost Australian taxpayers’ huge money, the Minister for Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy said on Friday.
Australian companies are warned of the cyber security breach potential now that exposes critical information that now demands more attention.
Telstra Corporation Ltd downplayed reports indicating that it has finalised the finer details of the contract that embodies the giant telco’s $9 billion agreement with NBN Co. that will aid in the full roll out of the federal-sponsored national broadband network.
At first glance an audio encoder called LameXP doesn't look like it'll be the most appealing of products. You might easily assume that it's just going to be an outdated front end for the LAME MP3 library -- too basic to be really useful. But don't be misled. LameXP is far more interesting than its name suggests.
Program bugs, hardware problems, virus attacks, human error -- there are many possible reasons why you might lose valuable data.
More than 100 different Android device designs have been released over the last three years, but there have only been a handful of "ruggedized" smartphones (Motorola i1, Defy, Casio G'Zone Commando) and no rugged tablets.
A Google homepage doodle honouring guitar legend Les Paul has cost the world $268m in productivity, amounting to over 10.7 million man-hours being lost.
'Nice girls' finish last in the workplace, according to American corporate coach and author Dr Lois Frankel.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret. When Duke Nukem 3D came out, I thought it was stupid.
