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Ex-Windows Leader Steven Sinofsky Is Going To Teach At Harvard (MSFT)
Former Windows leader Steven Sinofsky tweeted that he's going to spend some time teaching at Harvard this spring.Excited to return to @harvardhbs to teach again this spring!New perspectives, recharge,...
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Larry Ellison Explains Where Oracle's Hiring And Who Got 'Downsized' (ORCL)
Unconfirmed reports of layoffs at Oraclehave been leaking all year long. In an earnings call Tuesday, analysts asked Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and President Mark Hurd directly about headcount.Ellison...
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Facebook Stops Testing A Hugely Lucrative New Business
Facebook has stopped its experiment with placing mobile ads on other apps and websites, Peter Kafkareports on AllThingsD.That means plans to launch a full-fledged mobile ad network to challenge Google...
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Nokia Fixes Software Bug That Caused The Lumia 920 To Take Blurry Photos...
Nokiareleased a software update today for its two newest flagship Windows Phones, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, that fixes several bugs.Most importantly, the software update fixes a bug with the phone's...
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Look How Confused People Are Over McAfee The Alleged Killer And McAfee The...
There's one giant risk when you name your company after yourself: What if that name becomes its own scandal?That seems to have happened to McAfee, the antivirus software maker whose founder, John...
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Time Magazine Has The Most Over-The-Top Description Of Tim Cook We've Ever...
Apple CEO Tim Cook was this close to being named Time's Person of the Year. He came in third place.He still got a profile in the magazine written by Lev Grossman, Time's book critic and tech writer....
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BII REPORT: The Massive Mobile Explosion In BRIC Countries Explained
Many emerging markets are already mobile-first economies where mobile phones are more ubiquitous than either land-line telephones, PCs, or fixed Internet connections.Mobile statistics are specifically...
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Apple Missed A Huge Opportunity To Improve The iPhone 5's Keyboard (AAPL)
The extra half inch on our iPhone 5 is much appreciated.When the iPhone 5 launched earlier this year, Apple gave users an extra row of icons and an overall better phone. But Reddit user Mds03 points...
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There's A Problem With Your Samsung Galaxy Phone
Samsung acknowledged a vulnerability in its popular Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II phones that could allow someone to write a malicious app and gain access to your device. The vulnerability was first...
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BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Is 2013 The Year Of Mobile Payments?
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.What Were...
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NORAD Switches Santa Tracker From Google To Microsoft's Maps And Apps (MSFT)
After five years of working with Google, NORAD has switched to MicrosoftBing to track Santa's sleigh ride this Christmas Eve.That hasn't stopped Google from continuing to monitor Santa on its...
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A Private Equity Wunderkind's Start-Up Is Infiltrating The NYC Art World
Nahema Mehta isn't interested in disrupting the art world, she's set on actively conquering it from within — and her plan is working.Mehta is the founder of start-up Art Remba, a web-based club that...
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FINALLY SOME SENSE: A 3D Printing Heavyweight Decides It's Not Necessary To...
We've previously reported on Defense Distributed, an organization that seeks to design and print fully-functional guns using 3D printers and share the digital files for them so others can do the...
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Here's How Yahoo Shareholders Got Smacked With A $2.7 Billion Surprise...
There's one big, lingering question over the $2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo in a lawsuit it lost in Mexico: Why was there no warning to shareholders?There's a simple answer, according to...
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New York Times Editor Jill Abramson Deals With Angry Sources And Opinionated...
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is constantly dealing with critics – people who don't like the stories written about them, or readers who disagree with a review or a particular...
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Now Anyone Can Use 3D Printing To Make Money
Peter Weijmarshausen runs Shapeways, an innovative manufacturing company that has been around since 2007. Shapeways is unique because it uses 3D printing to allow anyone to create a custom-designed...
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CHART OF THE DAY: A Lot Of iPhone Owners Want Bigger Screens (AAPL)
Almost half of iPhone owners want a screen that's 4.1-inches or bigger, according to research from Citi.Samsung is the king of big screened smartphones. It's also, perhaps not coincidentally, the king...
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How 20,000 Pounds Of Potatoes Brought Wi-Fi To Airplanes
If you're flying somewhere this holiday season, you could be on a plane that offers Wi-Fi.And a good Wi-Fi connection on a plane flying 500 miles per hour at 35,000 feet was a particularly hard tech...
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U.S. Invalidates Apple's 'Pinch-To-Zoom' Patent For Touchscreen Devices (AAPL)
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated Apple's iconic "pinch-to-zoom" patent.The WSJwas the first to report the news.Samsung discovered that the patent was invalidated after going over...
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Brazilian Company Launches Android 'iPhones' After Winning Right To Name
SAO PAULO (AP) — It's not your Apple's iPhone.A Brazilian company has begun selling smartphones with the iPhone brand after winning the legal right to use the name in Latin America's biggest country....
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