Mark Papermaster, senior vice president of engineering for Apple, has left the company. Papermaster, who worked on the company's iPod and iPhone devices, is a 26-year IBM veteran who started work with Apple in April 2009.
The woman who accused Mark Hurd of sexual harassment has come forward, saying she never intended for Hurd to lose his job as chief executive of Hewlett Packard.
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsApple confirmed over the weekend that mobile phone head Mark Papermaster has left the company, and will be replaced by computer engineering chief Bob Mansfield. The company has declined to give further details on Papermaster's departure.Speculation and blog reports indicate tha...
By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsLate last week, I posted a top-10 list of things Microsoft did right during fiscal year 2010, which ended on June 30. With every right there must come a wrong. What will surprise some readers is how some actions fit into both categories. A number of "wrongs" on this list also ...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsHP Chairman, CEO and President Mark Hurd resigned from his positions in the company on Friday after sexual harassment claims were brought against him by a former HP contractor."As the investigation progressed, I realized there were instances in which I did not live up to th...
Joe Hockey denounced the Labor party's plan to for mandatory filtering of ISPs, garnering praise from the Greens, the Coalition, and some independents.
Adobe will soon release a fix for a critical bug in its Reader software that, if exploited, could allow outside control of a computer running the software.
After the fourth day of hearings, an appeal by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) against the ruling on the iiNet copyright case has adjourned.
Google has removed its Nexus One phone from its online store, but has renamed it the Android Dev Phone and continues to sell it to registered Android developers.
Some families in Victoria may soon have the chance to test electric vehicles in their daily lives.
Reports on EA's earnings indicate that Playstation 3 software growth has expanded 40% year-on-year, to date.
Peter Molyneaux is happy to see some of the raised-eyebrow reactions to the video Milo &Kate that he directed last year.
A recent analysis by advertising agency "The Works" revealed that Sydney's Bass Hill and Toongabbie suburbs are in the city's five top spots for Twitter users, along with St. Leonards, Ropes Crossing and the CBD.
The latest TV-conversion figures show that three in four Australian households now have digital televisions.
In its review of the Copyright Amendment Bill, the New Zealand Commerce Select Committee heard further evidence as the internet industry body InternetNZ and the New Zealand Labor Party voiced it disapproval of disconnecting users caught infringing copyright.
In spite of accepting liability for some claims made by Oracle in a suit that alleges theft of trade secrets, SAP says that it will fight "vastly exaggerated" claim for billions of dollars in damages.
The Federal Communications Commission canceled meetings with Internet companies aimed at brokering a deal on protecting consumer access to the Internet.
Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp., says that tablet devices such as the iPad are a "game changer" and have the ability to transform journalism.
Fears have surfaced that Google is changing its stance in the battle to stop Internet service providers (ISPs) from giving preferential treatment to those that pay.
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsGoogle on Friday officially announced it has acquired Slide Inc., confirming rumors circulating earlier in the week. Slide creates entertainment products that tie in with social networks and online communities such as SuperPoke! and its family of related games, Top Fish, an...
BySteven Walling, BetanewsReal-time collaboration app Google Wave was officially added to the dead pool this week. Despite plenty of hype and excitement, it failed to attract the adoption that Google hoped for. The site itself is expected to stay up through the end of the year, but users are likely ...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsJust ahead of the August recess Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed a $600 million border security bill introduced by Senators Chuck Schumer (D- NY) and Claire McCaskill (D- MO). The bill, according to McCaskill's press office, will "raise fees on a handful of foreign corporat...
Julia Gillard will raid $448 million from a savings scheme meant for the development of IT projects to help pay for election commitments.
In spite of moves by Middle East nations to stop wireless email service, Australia will not ban BlackBerry smartphones.
The merger of Hutchison Australia and Vodafone Australia has buoyed Hutchison as the company posted a $17.9 million first-half net profit. The company will continue its plan to discontinue the 3 mobile brand.
A senior executive from Microsoft says that highly organized syndicates are infiltrating developer programs around the world to defraud the company
Google Wave, introduced by Google just last year, ended its run as Google admitted in a blog post that the product had never caught on widely with the public.
Google Buzz purchased Slide, an virtual community application development site, leading to speculation that Google is trying to expand further into the social networking arena.
A patent infringement lawsuit against Salesforce.com by Microsoft has been settled, Microsoft announced.
Decisions by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudia Arabia to cut or suspend services on the Blackberry smartphone continued to elicit shock by users in those countries.
