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InfoWorld: At a CES keynote on Tuesday, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced that Lenovo and Motorola will release smartphones based on Intel’s upcoming Medfield chips. He demonstrated a Lenovo phone on stage, and predicted that Intel-based devices from both companies will ship this year. “The best of Intel computing is now coming to smartphones,” Otellini […]

eWeek: As is usually the case in January, this month’s Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft was fairly light–just seven bulletins fixing eight vulnerabilities. Only one of those bulletins was considered “critical;” it addresses two vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player for Windows Vista and XP. The other bulletins address security problems in the Windows kernel and […]

BBC News: Yesterday, Google began integrating content from its Google+ social network into its Web search results, but not everyone is happy about the update. Twitter lawyer Alex Macgillivray tweeted that it was a “bad day for the internet.” In an official statement, Twitter explained, “As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first […]

Associated Press: Thanks to a hefty stock option grant, Apple CEO Tim Cook looks likely to be the highest paid chief executive in America for 2011. When Cook took over from Steve Jobs, the company awarded him a million stock options worth worth $376 million at the time. Half of those options will vest in […]

Computerworld: Kodak has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and lawsuits with the U.S. District Court, alleging that mobile devices made by HTC and Apple violate four of Kodak’s digital imaging patents. Although Kodak has asked the ITC to halt the import of smartphones and tablets that violate its patents, the […]

PCMag: During last night’s CES keynote address, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer led off with a highlight reel covering the 11 previous speeches he and Bill Gates had given at the show. Then, with assistance from Ryan Seacrest, Ballmer and other Microsoft execs covered some of the company’s most important products–Windows 8, Windows Phone and Kinect–without […]

Fox News: Beginning Tuesday, Google is rolling out a new feature for its Web search that integrates data from its Google+ social network and its Picasa photo-sharing service. The “Search, plus your world” feature will automatically pull in content from Google+ and Picasa for English language users who log in to Google before searching. Users […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Among the bigger product announcements yesterday at CES was the unveiling of the Nokia Lumia 900. The Windows Phone 7-based smartphone will be offered exclusively through AT&T, the biggest carrier to support a Nokia/Windows smartphone so far. The Lumia 900 is also the first Nokai/Windows phone to offer next generation LTE technology. Both […]

InformationWeek: Oracle has unveiled its new Big Data Appliance, produced in partnership with Cloudera. The company announced that it was working on a Hadoop appliance in October, but few observers expected it to hit the market this soon. “Cloudera brings us a couple of very important missing pieces, including its management software and assistance for […]

Cnet: Day one of CES 2012 in Las Vegas saw several technology companies promoting new ultrabooks–ultra-thin, Windows-based laptops designed to compete with the MacBook Air. One standout was HP’s new Envy 14 Spectre, which Cnet called “a beauty of an ultrabook covered in more Gorilla Glass than we’ve seen in one device.” (Several devices at […]

The New York Times: This week, more than 140,000 people will descend on Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). While the show is still important to the tech industry, some observers say its importance is diminishing. “For the larger guys, the show has become less important,” said former HP CTO Phil McKinney. […]

All Things D: A new report from Forrester Research finds Apple making unexpected gains among enterprise customers. Thanks in part to the “Bring Your Own Device” phenomenon, enterprises will likely spend $10 billion on iPads this year, says Forrester. That’s a 68 percent increase over 2011. Similarly, the researchers say big companies will spend $9 […]