Datamation Staff

Apple Insider: Unsurprisingly, two days of court-ordered mediation between the CEOs of Samsung and Apple failed to result in a settlement for their ongoing patent disputes. Apple still insists that Samsung copied its iPhone and iPad design, Samsung insists that Apple should pay royalties on Samsung wireless technology patents, and neither company has been willing […]

NetworkWorld: Dell reported disappointing results for its first fiscal quarter. Net income was $535 million, down 33 percent compared to the previous year. Earnings per share came in at $0.43, falling short of the $0.46 predicted by Wall Street. Revenue totaled $14.4 billion, down 4 percent year-over-year. The lone bright spot in Dell’s financial report […]

All Things D: A new report from NPD says Apple is the undisputed leader in sales of mobile PCs, a category which includes both tablet and laptop sales. Apple shipped 17.2 million mobile PCs in the first quarter of 2012, enough for a 22.5 percent market share. The number two mobile PC maker, HP, shipped […]

The Verge: For its fiscal year which ended March 31, Chinese PC maker Lenovo reported sales of $29.6 billion, a 37 percent increase from the previous year. Profit totaled $584 million. While overall PC industry shipments climbed just 3 percent for the year, Lenovo’s shipments increased 34.9 percent. China plays a big role in the […]

Cnet: Tech firms dominated Millward Brown Optimor’s annual BrandZ list of the world’s most valuable brands. For the second year in a row, Apple came in first with a brand name worth $183 billion. IBM, last year’s number three, came in second, and Google, last year’s number two, came in third. Microsoft placed fifth. McDonald’s, […]

TGDaily: At an event in South Korea, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted that there will be 350 million devices running Windows 7 by the end of the year. He said that would make Windows “the most popular single system.” Microsoft had sold 350 million Windows 7 licenses within 18 months after releasing the OS, but […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: On Tuesday, Google officially finalized its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. Originally, Google was interested in purchasing the phone manufacturer for its treasure trove of patents, but now Google plans to get serious about the hardware business. “This is a huge opportunity to really show what Android can do in a well-designed, […]

InformationWeek: On Monday, Leap Motion unveiled the Leap, a new motion control device that promises gesture-based control of PCs, as seen in the movie Minority Report. The device is somewhat similar to Microsoft’s Kinect, but while Kinect captures large-scale movements, Leap can track movements as fine as 1/100 of a millimeter. The company designed the […]

Marketing Land: Over the weekend, Microsoft opened up its Socl social networking service to the general public. The service touts “the ability to share searches, discover new interests and have a video party,” and integration with Microsoft’s Bing search engine is one of Socl’s key characteristics. Microsoft’s Lili Cheng noted, “We are working closely with […]

Reuters: As ordered by a U.S. court, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sung will sit down with a mediator and attempt to resolve the issues which led to their patent disputes. The two companies have multiple lawsuits pending against each other in at least ten different countries. Apple alleges that Samsung’s Galaxy […]

CNNMoney: Following an 18-month antitrust investigation, the European Commission has sent a letter to Google outlining four major “concerns” and asking the company to address the problems within “a matter of weeks.” Specifically, the letter says that Google could be violating EU law by  linking to its own services differently than it links to competing […]

AFP: Concluding a year of negotiations, Yahoo and Alibaba have reached an agreement that will see Yahoo selling off its stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm for $7.1 billion. The extremely complicated, three-phase agreement won’t be completed until Alibaba goes public sometime in the future. As part of the deal, the two companies also made […]