Steve Jobs evidently thought about disrupting everything. From computers, to phones, to televisions … to cars. Apple board member and J. Crew chief executive Mickey Drexler revealed the unfulfilled dream.
“Steve’s dream before he died was to design an iCar, …
The White House is losing its cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt to retirement this year after a tumultuous 2011, often referred to a the year of the hack.
Schmidt served the White House in this role for two and a …
Technology often comes together at the intersection of useful, important, and mind-boggling when it helps someone in need. Today BrainGate announced an invention that encompasses all three — a robotic arm controlled by your brain.
I constantly tried to move …
What a difference a rumor makes. Samsung, which supplies some of Apple’s mobile parts, lost $10 billion off its market cap yesterday after a report surfaced that Apple had taken some of its business elsewhere.
Yesterday, DigiTimes reported that Apple …
Looks like it pays to be in big data. Data analysis company Palantir has raised $56 million in its latest round of funding, through two unknown investors, according to an SEC filing today.
Palantir has been seemingly very successful, offering …
Dan Loeb’s Third Point is bulking up its stake in a few other technology companies besides Yahoo, according to an SEC filing. The firm, which edged Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson out of office earlier this week, are now gobbling …
Plastic Logic demo-ed its flexible, color e-reader today — another screen to support the notion that e-readers may one day act like paper.
According to Engadget, Plastic Logic received a funding round of $700 million from Rusnano to create the …
My grandma hates showing me photos on her smartphone. It’s small and “pinch and zoom” doesn’t show the full photo — “I just miss prints,” she says. This very neat concept smartphone projector, however, may solve her problem.
A group …
We already knew Facebook was huge, but did you realize it has as many monthly active users are there are people in Europe? The company is headed toward an IPO, but where does it stack up against the tech titans …
Apple issued its latest update to Mac OS X Lion today. The update, 10.7.4, fixes a number of issues, including the security vulnerability that exposed passwords.
The update also fixes a few minor issues, including the “reopen windows when logging …
Apple had a small win in the US today when a Santa Clara judge threw out Chinese technology company Proview’s trademark infringement case.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Judge Mark Pierce of the Superior Court of the State of …
Updated 4:15pm with statements from Patti Hart and International Game Technology chairman Philip Satre.
The first one bites the dust… Yahoo director Patti Hart will not seek reelection at the board’s annual meeting. The company has been on shaky grounds …
