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Viral Infographic: Apple’s Cash Pile Explained (All of Greece and Canada Get iPads!)

Apple has a boatload of dough and is worth a ton.

Samsung Epic 2, SPH-D905 finally being released?

Way back in June 2011, we detailed Sprint's roadmap for the rest of that year and pretty much every device we discussed has been released: the Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch, the BlackBerry Bold 9930, and the BlackBerry Torch 9850 all ......

Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees, and other unredacted statements in a Silicon Valley scandal

Last week, we got our first glimpse at the (heavily redacted) evidence behind a Silicon Valley scandal dating back to 2005 — Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit and other tech firms, it was revealed, had agreements not to po...

Siri isn’t ruining your cellphone service

The Washington Post's Peter Farhi posted an opinion piece this week entitled "How Siri is ruining your cellphone service," in which he says that Apple's voice-powered assistant — a staple of the iPhone 4S, and presumably eve...

Symantec may have identified a botnet string of Android apps

Symantec claims to have found a string of “malicious” applications in the Android app store that resemble botnets.

According to a blog post by the company, these applications are pushing out a type of malware called Android.Counterclank, which is said …

Ron Paul, Mitt Romney Leading On Facebook Ahead Of Florida Primary

Screen Shot 2012-01-27 at 5.40.06 PMThe Republican presidential candidacy is still far from decided, based on the split primaries and mixed polls so far. So here's another source for trying to figure who's really pulling ahead -- the number of new Facebook...

Samsung’s next-gen Galaxy Tab headed to MWC with 2GHz processor, 2560 x 1600 screen?

Now that Samsung sells slates in nearly every screen size imaginable — 4.65, 5.3, 7.0, 7.7, 8.9 and 10.1-inches across — what's the next frontier? A rumor at Android and Me (perhaps corroborating an earlier rumor at BG...

Causecast takes corporate philanthropy beyond the Fortune 500

Los Angeles-based startup Causecast this week debuted its Employee Impact Platform, a web-based program that connects companies and their employees with non-profits and charitable causes. With Causecast, small businesses can compete with larger, more established companies when it comes to offering employees ways to give back.

Update Your Resume and Get a (Better) Job This Weekend [Weekendhacker]

You've probably heard too many times to count that "in this economy, you should be happy to have any job at all." Perhaps that's true, but that doesn't mean you can't try to find something better if yo...

Why You Should Smile in Your Facebook Profile Photo

If you're not smiling in your Facebook photo, your life is probably going to suck in four years time. Reseachers J. Patrick Seder and Shigehiro Oishi at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville discovered that smile intensity from a single Facebo...

Amazon’s Kindle Fire driving accelerated growth of Android tablet category


Good sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet led to significant gains for Google’s Android operating system in tablet market share during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to new data from mobile analytics firm Flurry.

Flurry, which purports to measure …