Cynthia Harvey

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing Texas Instrument’s mobile processor business. Earlier this month, TI announced its intention to seek a buyer for the unit. Assaf Gilad first reported the news for Isreal’s Calcalist. (See translated version.) According to Gilad’s sources, the two companies are in “advanced negotiations” and the purchase “is expected to be […]

The third largest U.S. wireless carrier will soon have a new owner. Japan-based Softbank has announced plans to purchase a 70 percent share of Sprint Nextel for approximately $20.1 billion. According to a Reuters report by Mari Saito and Tim Kelly the $20.1 billion price tag sets a record as “the most a Japanese firm […]

A new study finds that patent trolls were likely behind almost half of all patent lawsuits filed in 2011. Several tech companies are fighting back and raising the alarm about a patent system that seems broken. First the study: Robin Cooper Feldman, Sara Jeruss and Joshua W. Walker are publishing a study commissioned by the […]

On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 16, which patched several bugs in the previous version of the open source browser. Unfortunately, the update also introduced a completely new security flaw, which caused the organization to stop offering the download temporarily. On Mozilla’s security blog, Michael Coates, the organization’s director of security assurance, explained, “The vulnerability could […]

On Wednesday, Gartner and IDC both released preliminary reports on PC industry market share, and the two research firms disagree. IDC says HP remains the number one PC maker with 15.9 percent of the market, while Gartner says Lenovo has captured the top spot with 15.7 percent of the market. According to the IDC press […]

Leading market research firms, including IDC, Gartner and IHS iSuppli, are reporting that PC sales have fallen this year. Unless the release of Windows 8 gives the industry a dramatic boost, PC sales may post an annual decline for the first time in more than a decade. “Shipments of personal computers are on pace to […]

A note from a well-respected analyst suggests that RIM’s new operating system, BlackBerry 10, might not launch until March of 2013. The operating system has faced repeated delays, but RIM is counting on the OS to reverse its slow decline. The Register reported that Jeffries and Co. analyst Peter Misek sent out a note which […]

At its second annual Boxworks conference, file-sharing firm Box took some time to brag about its current success, as well as to introduce new features. The company seems strongly focused on the enterprise market. According to The Next Web, Box CEO Aaron Levie came out on stage dancing “Gangnam style” and then “announced that Box […]

Facebook is testing a new “Collections” program with a select group of retailers. Facebook users will now be able to click “Want” or “Collect” buttons, in addition to the “Like” button, to demonstrate their interest in certain products. According to Cnet, a Facebook spokesperson explained the program as follows: We’ve seen that businesses often use […]

In newly published research, IDC reported that the amount of data center capacity in the U.S. is increasing, but the number of data centers is decreasing. The firm expects that trend to continue as virtualization and cloud computing continue to grow in importance. According to the IDC press release, “The total number of datacenters (of […]