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| Hurricane Sandy disrupts Northeast U.S. telecom networks Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 12:23 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Power outages and flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy disrupted telecommunications services in Northeastern states on Tuesday, resulting in spotty coverage for cellphones, television, home telephones and Internet services. While all the region's telecom service providers were having problems, Verizon Communications, which serves many of the states in the hurricane's path, appeared to have suffered some of the worst damage from the storm. ... Full Story | Top |
| Acer delays Windows RT tablets after Microsoft moves into market Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 11:40 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - Taiwanese computer maker Acer is putting off the launch of tablets using Microsoft's new Windows RT operating system to give itself time to see how Microsoft's own Surface tablet fares. The world's No. 4 PC vendor by shipments initially planned to roll out Windows RT tablets based on ARM chips early next year. However, the launch of Microsoft's tablet last week and the mixed reviews it has drawn has prompted Acer to wait and see until at least the second quarter of 2013. ... Full Story | Top |
| Microsoft CEO says four million Windows 8 upgrades since Friday Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 10:01 AM PDT  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday the company has sold 4 million upgrades to Windows 8, signaling a strong start for its new operating system which launched on Friday. Ballmer, speaking at a meeting for software developers at Microsoft's headquarters near Seattle, said hundreds of millions of Windows systems would be sold over the next year, and the company was seeing strong interest from business users. Ballmer already said on Monday that Windows 8 was outselling the previous version, Windows 7, at the same stage after launch three years ago. ... Full Story | Top |
| ARM unveils 64-bit designs for future smartphones, servers Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 09:23 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - British chip designer ARM on Tuesday launched its first 64-bit processors to power the next generation of smartphones and tablets and offer low-energy solutions for servers. The Cambridge-based company, whose technology is in Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S3, said its latest blueprints would deliver three times today's processing power using the same amount of energy. The move to 64-bit architecture, from ARM's current 32-bit designs, will give ARM-based chips increased processing power but retain the energy efficiency central to its technology, the company said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Apple in safe hands with bigger role for Ive: analysts Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 08:44 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The exit of Apple Inc's longtime mobile software products chief may be a surprise, but a band of able executives led by Tim Cook and a bigger role for design boss Jonathan Ive meant the company was in good hands, analysts said on Tuesday. Ive, Apple's celebrated industrial design chief will now look into both hardware and software designs, following the departure of Scott Forstall after years of friction with other top executives. ... Full Story | Top |
| EE launches Britain's first 4G services Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 06:38 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile operator EE launched its 4G network in 11 cities on Tuesday, giving it a head start on disgruntled rivals to take British consumers into the superfast broadband era where they can watch video and quickly surf the Internet on the move. The launch comes just weeks after the joint venture between France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile businesses got the go-ahead to provide the new service while its rivals Vodafone, Telefonica's O2 and Hutchison's Three have to wait until next year. "We're investing 1. ... Full Story | Top |
| Family of brain-damaged worker takes Foxconn to court in China Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 03:47 AM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - The father of a Foxconn worker left brain-damaged by a factory accident in southern China took the company to court on Tuesday, in a case that heaps more attention on the labor practices of Apple Inc's largest contract manufacturer. The case involves Zhang Tingzhen, a 26-year-old engineer who had nearly half his brain surgically removed after surviving an electric shock a year ago. ... Full Story | Top |
| Apple software, retail chiefs out in overhaul Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 12:26 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Monday pushed out the powerful head of the company's mobile software products group, sources said, in a major management shake-up that also claimed the recently hired chief of the retail stores division. Scott Forstall, a long-time lieutenant of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, was asked to leave following years of friction with other top executives and his recent refusal to take responsibility for the mishandling of the Apple's much-criticized mapping software, people familiar with the situation said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Andreessen Horowitz leads $15.5 million funding of ItsOn mobile firm Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 12:04 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $15.5 million round of venture funding for ItsOn Inc, a developer of software that supports more flexible mobile billing options like sponsored data services and split billing for work and personal use. ItsOn, which has had funding from Verizon Communications, Vodafone Group Plc and Best Buy in the past, said its technology will power a new service for one of the top three U.S. mobile providers starting in early 2013. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nokia says shipping new Lumia smartphones this week Monday, Oct 29, 2012 11:02 PM PDT  HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish phone maker Nokia said its new Lumia smartphones, key to the company's hopes for recovery, will begin to appear in some European markets this week. Nokia late on Monday said its high-end Lumia 820 and 920 phones, which will run on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 software, will this week reach first operators and retail outlets in France and Britain and later in Russia and Germany as well as other select markets. In the United States, AT&T will start selling the devices in early November. ... Full Story | Top |
| Panasonic may curb solar panel, lithium battery expansion: sources Monday, Oct 29, 2012 09:38 PM PDT  TOKYO (Reuters) - Electronics conglomerate Panasonic Corp may curtail its expanded production of solar panels and small lithium batteries used in PCs and other devices as part of new round of restructuring, two sources at the company told Reuters. Panasonic recently built a solar panel plant in Malaysia for 45 billion yen ($564 million), upping capacity by one-third to 900 megawatts. Plans to further ramp up production to 1.5 gigawatts may be scaled back, however, because of weak demand, particularly in Europe, the sources said on condition they were not identified. ... Full Story | Top |
| PayPal cutting jobs as part of major reorganization Monday, Oct 29, 2012 04:26 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal is cutting about 325 jobs as part of a major reorganization by its new president, David Marcus, designed to regain an innovative edge and head off rising competition. PayPal, the online payment pioneer owned by eBay Inc, said on Monday the full-time jobs would be eliminated as it combines nine product-development groups into one. The company is also cutting about 120 contractors. EBay will take a $15 million pretax restructuring charge in the fourth quarter related to the job reductions. ... Full Story | Top |
| Apple software, retail chiefs out in sweeping overhaul Monday, Oct 29, 2012 03:36 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook on Monday replaced the heads of its software and retail units in the company's most sweeping executive shake-up in a decade following embarrassing problems with its new mapping program and unpopular store-related decisions. Software chief Scott Forstall, who oversaw the launch of the flawed mapping software and much criticized Siri voice-enabled assistant, will leave Apple next year and serve as an advisor to Cook in the meantime. ... Full Story | Top |
| Security firm CrowdStrike hires U.S. Air Force info-warfare expert Monday, Oct 29, 2012 02:40 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A high-profile cybersecurity company that has pledged to respond to hackers with unusual aggression has hired the former commanding officer of a top U.S. information-warfare unit to spearhead the most direct counter-attacks. CrowdStrike said the retired Air Force colonel, Mike Convertino, would coordinate the company's offensive operations on behalf of corporate clients, aiming in some cases to disrupt the infrastructure of their attackers. ... Full Story | Top |
| China search engine company Baidu posts slower revenue growth Monday, Oct 29, 2012 02:07 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Baidu Inc, China's largest search engine company, posted its slowest quarterly revenue growth in more than two years, hurt by slowing sales as economic growth slows. Baidu said on Monday that revenue in the third quarter was $994.6 million, up 49.7 percent from the year-ago period. For the fourth quarter, Baidu said it expects revenue of $979.3 million to $1.010 billion, below the average analysts' forecasts of $1.03 billion according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Baidu posted net income of $478. ... Full Story | Top |
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