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The CEO of AU Optronics, who faces felony charges related to a price-fixing investigation, has been barred from leaving the U.S.
Nokia is reportedly undertaking a search for a new CEO to lead the company, amid mounting criticism that the company is struggling to keep up in the smartphone race.
Nokia -- once the powerhouse of mobile phone development -- is struggling to keep up with the pace and innovation of the...
Apple's CEO Steve Jobs has been on somewhat of an email rampage as of late, with many customers who email him getting a (brief) reply to their questions. One such case, reported by The Unofficial Apple Weblog, has revealed that the iPhone OS will be getting a feature requested for...
 The era of 4G - WiMAX, basically - is dawning and the Overdrive from Sprint is the first creation in that brave, fast world. Sprint called out all the great ones, from Hesse, the CEO, to Ballmer, the other CEO, as well as a Frank Caliendo, that guy who does voices.
The device, which is shaped like a squarish hockey puck, is being touted as a hotspot away from your hotspot. It streams a 4G connection out of a package about as big as a stack of drink coasters.
This years CES Keynote speech will be provided by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer (CEO) and Robbie Bach (President of the Entertainment & Devices Division), Possible subjects include the Microsoft Slate Device we covered earlier, rumours suggest the device will be manufactured by HP. Coverage will begin at approximately 6:30 p.m. PST (Check the time near you), and as per usual the keynote will be streamed live over the internet, a link to the Webcast will be placed here closer to the event.
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 California-based Zero Motorcycles has taken $5.56M in a Series A add-on according to an SEC Report, filed today. Investors in this round were not disclosed. The company previously raised $5M in April of 2008, bringing their total funding to just over $10.6M. Formerly Electricross, Zero Motorcycles specializes in high performance electric street and dirt bikes--the Tesla of the motorcycle industry so to speak.
CEO Gene Banman tells us the purpose of the funding is to "expand the business." He declined to expand upon that statement. Given the emerging sector and the influx of competitors, it seems Zero is simply trying to stay ahead of the curve.
1:45PM – ASUS won 3,000 awards including a reddot design award.
1:55PM – Designer Karim Rashid is helping to create new designs. This guy gets around. He’s been in MoMA. You’d recognize his wonky trash cans. 1:57PM – EEE PC Seashell Karim Rashid collection. Quilted style cover, looks sort of like carbon fiber.
2:00PM – Bamboo laptops!
2:02PM – Binding bamboo into plastic to create a bamboo laptop case. Bamboo collection. Metal hinge with bamboo top. 2:08PM – Last product. Take PCs into territory that has been privileged.
Pre-toting people around the Internets have been hoping and praying that Palm would add video recording support to the Pre ever since the device launched. When Palm's CEO Jon Rubinstein mentioned that webOS 1.3.5 would be hitting the Pre in just a few days, people started getting antsy; surely this would be the one that brought video, right?
No such luck. While it does fix a handful of issues (most importantly, they've upped the number of apps you can have installed at once), the lack of video isn't one of them.
Qualcomm COO Len Lauer has resigned to become CEO at an unnamed company.
Last week Mashable, "the social media guide", ran a story with the headline "Bing! Ballmer Says You're Fired" which contained a video of an alleged former Microsoft employee that had been fired for not being enthusiastic about Bing during a company meeting. It was claimed that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's own CEO had laid-off the man himself. As it turns out the whole thing is a hoax and Frank Shaw, Corporate Communications at Microsoft confirmed this in a comment on the Mashable post. "Please mark this as funny but not true" writes Shaw who also notes "this is clearly a hoax and you should mark it as such in the headline".
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Last week we reported that Google was set to acquire Yelp for a sweet $500 million. According to TechCrunch, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman walked away from the deal this weekend just as it was reaching the later stages of negotiation. TechCrunch speculates that another company may have approached Yelp for a strategic deal that would urge Stoppleman to back away from the Google deal. Yelp is a website that allows members to review local businesses from local nightlife, shopping centers to restaurants and religious organizations. Users can submit reviews and ratings on their experience for other curious shoppers to see.
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Mark Shuttleworth announced in a press call yesterday that he will step down from his role as CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system, but will remain involved in the Ubuntu project itself. Taking his place will be Jane Silber, who has been with Canonical since 2004. As reported by Computer World, Shuttleworth said in an interview that he intends to stay head of the Ubuntu Community Council and the Ubuntu Technical Board, and that instead of managing the business, he will be "Working closely on product design and our enterprise customers." "I will also be working more closely with partners, especially in Asia.
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Canonical's CEO will vacate the position by March as the company takes on more commercial demands.
No smartphone users in the world approved of AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega's remarks about iPhone users hogging the network's bandwidth. His statement permeated the hearts of every tech savvy, phone loving user worldwide. Fake Steve Jobs (Dan Lyons), who many of you may follow, has decided to stick it to the man. He is calling on all iPhone users to bring AT&T's network to a halt. Here are the details: Subject: Operation Chokehold On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees.
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Samsung Electronics named a new CEO on Tuesday as the company undertakes a major reorganization.
Facebook CEO's Facebook page reveals the ups and downs of the social networking site's new privacy settings.
Cloud Engines, the company behind Pogoplug, the device that turns any USB hard drive into a network accessible drive, raised $3 million in funding according to an SEC filing. We've confirmed the investment with the company with existing investor Foundry Group and others participating in the round.
According to the startup's CEO, Daniel Putterman, Cloud Engines will use the money to kick start their international plans for retail, specifically in Europe. The company will also expand retail operations in the U.S.
Gaming company's CEO isn't a scold when it comes to software piracy, and he’s back on the stump for pirate-as-potential-sale.
Kind of sounds like he knows what he’s talking about, eh? Of course Sony isn’t stating anything, but the company really should. We need something to call their motion controller. Microsoft codenamed its system Project Natal, which makes it easy to write about. Without a codename for Sony’s system, we’re forced to call it something like the motion-wand-wiimote-clone-with-the-blue-ball thing. So, Sony, can we just call the thing Gem and get on with it?
Twitter creator and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has introduced a new card payment system named Square. Square was unveiled last week. The payment system uses a small scanner that plugs into the headset port on mobiles and PCs and allows retailers to read the magnetic stripe information from credit cards. Users make a purchase by swiping the credit or debit card through the reader. Card owners can then use touch screen mobiles such as the iPhone or Android devices to sign for goods. Square creator Dorsey donned the stage at Le Web 09 this morning to confirm that the small card scanner will be made available for free.
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Seagate, the big huge hard drive company, has just now officially announced its first ever solid state drive. The press release title says “Seagate Introduces Its First Solid State Drive: Pulsar” and above the title it says “December 08, 2009.” To be fair, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins hasn’t been keen on solid state drives, saying a little over a year ago that his company wasn’t really considering the solid state market aside from these enterprise-level drives that have just been announced. So enterprise-class SSDs: great. But will we see consumer offerings from Seagate? As prices continue to fall and demand rises, it’d be foolish for the company to not eventually get into the consumer SSD market. Just don’t plan on anyone with a Seagate nametag showing up to the party before most of the other guests. [ Press Release | Product Page ]
Sony CEO Howard Stringer has big hopes for 3D TV and online content delivery services next year, he said Thursday in Tokyo.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in an earnings call that the company would have, barring possible changes in timing, 10 games available for Natal within the first six months of its release. He also said that they’d have 4-5 games for Sony’s motion controller, whatever it’s really called (can’t just be “wand”) in the same time frame. While I wouldn’t say we’re about to see a renaissance in gaming or anything like that, I think it’s good that these new peripherals are coming out deep into the consoles’ lifespans. Unlike the Wii at launch, developers have a clear idea of what the 360 and PS3 are capable of, and so their real focus will be on gameplay. I’m guessing that the first batch of games will consequently be of higher quality than early Wii titles. It’s still not simple which system to go for, however, if you’re still wavering like me. New Super Mario Bros Wii and Excitebike World Rally are enough to make me get the Wii, yet XBLA has so many indie titles — and serious, super-deep games like Demon’s Souls make the PS3 an excellent proposition as well. Well, I don’t even have a TV on which to play these games, so I should probably slow my roll. [via 1UP]
With Vista gone, Microsoft's CEO has a new "f-word" to describe Windows. Customers seem to agree.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff hyped the success of his company's cloud development platform on Thursday.
There’s some sort of video game developer conference going on in Motreal this week (titled, to use its full name, the Montreal International Game Summit), and an interesting charge was just levied there. The CEO of A2M (the company that developed Wet), Rémi Racine, said that some game publishers will go out of their way to deceive the ESRB in order to get a lower rating for their games. You know how Hollywood tries hard to make sure the summer blockbusters are rated no higher than PG-13 in order to ensure a large audience? Same thing with video games, apparently. Why release an M-rated game, and know that your limiting your potential audience, when you can eek out with a T rating? Of course, this is the opinion of one man, and not to be taken as the gospel truth. But what he said makes sense, at least on the surface:
Again, we have no way of knowing if this guy is speaking truthfully, but it doesn’t seem too far-fetched. Of course, then you run into all sorts of issues that I can just picture some grand-standing politician exploiting i.e. the ESRB has failed us, so we need tighter regulations.
Contrary to recent reports, data warehousing vendor Dataupia will live on, says founder and CEO Foster Hinshaw.
China Mobile's TD-SCDMA 3G mobile phone network will cover 70 percent of cities in China by the end of this year, the CEO said.
China Mobile is still in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone in China its CEO said Wednesday
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Operation Chokehold will blow up AT&T on Friday
The call to action:
I would do it, obviously, but I’m overseas right now and if I turned on data I could buy De La Vega a new yacht with the roaming charges.
Now I’m all for a bit of fun, obviously, but isn’t it ironic that this is what passes for political action these days? Our forefathers went to union meetings, we use Pandora all day. Oh well. At least AT&T can’t hire the Pinkertons to bust our heads.
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