After a customer backlash, Verizon Wireless on Friday dropped a plan to start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit or debit cards.
In a statement on its website Friday, the company said “customer feedback” prompted the decision to drop the “convenience fee” it wanted to introduce on Jan. 15.
The Lenovo LePad K2, based on Nvidia’s Tegra platform 3, was tested using GLBenchmark. The result was surprising. It looks like someone’s been running benchmarks on the next-generation Lenovo tablet. When you run the GL Benchmark using the free edition the results are submitted to a public community database for the world to see.
Google Inc unveiled its online music-download store on Wednesday, in a move to challenge the dominance of market leaders Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc. Google’s online music store was expected to have a fully functional, more advanced cloud based service, which has left Google’s new music partners disappointed who have also gone ahead and called the online music store to be unexciting.
Internet phone service Skype said Thursday that it will let users of its software make video calls to their Facebook friends and receive them, too. The release of Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac and Skype 5.7 for Windows adds the ability to initiate video chat with your Facebook friends.
The arsenal of malicious code aimed at Android-powered gadgets has grown exponentially, with criminals hiding viruses in applications people download to devices, according to Juniper Networks.
The computer systems specialty firm’s Global Threat Center found “staggering growth” in mobile “malware” targeting the Google-backed Android platform, according to findings available online Wednesday.
Elpida Memory Inc., the third largest Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) manufacturer in the world, today announced that it had developed the industry’s first 4-gigabit next-generation mobile memory chips for smart phones, tablet PCs and other mobile devices. Specializes in the design of memory chips, Elpida Memory has unveiled its new product that plays the card again enhanced performance. After the ultra thin memory developed for mobile phones, the company has developed a new solution to improve efficiency.
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced a range of HyperX Genesis memory in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB kits to support the new Intel Sandy Bridge-E X79 quad-channel processors and X79 Express-based motherboards. Kingston HyperX Genesis is the perfect solution for enthusiasts who require 4x raw performance increases afforded by quad channel over single channel solutions.
Google Inc offered a detailed glimpse into its secret process of ranking Internet websites on Monday, publishing for the first time a list of recent tweaks to its closely guarded search algorithm.
While less than revelatory, the details published on Google’s official blog mark a departure for the Internet search leader, as antitrust regulators investigate claims that the company’s search process might be biased toward its own business and operations.
Facebook is finalizing a settlement with federal regulators over deceptive practices related to several Facebook features, including its privacy policies enacted two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported. The proposed settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission would resolve charges by privacy advocates that Facebook engaged in deceptive behavior.
Somewhere deep in the US Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO), Nvidia has filed a patent for a “portable computer system,” a mini device that will be the size of a USB flash drive. The USB pendrive or acessories are among the most popular and, with the advent of netbooks, tablets and ultrabook, have in large part replaced the optical disc and, in some cases, even the hard disks. But no one had before thought you could put in a USB stick an entire PC!
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