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Facebook IPO Could be Delayed Until June - PC Magazine
Facebook is looking at a "plan A, B, C, and a D" for its IPO, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Meanwhile, Facebook's profits have dipped from a year ago but revenue increased 44 percent to $1.06 billion, the company said in an amended S-1 ...
Leaked Docs Point to Feb. 21 Release of RIM's PlayBook 2.0 - PC Magazine
The documents, which the tech blog said arrived via an anonymous source, also tip Feb. 21 as the release date for BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, a new platform that lets IT professionals manage the gamut of BlackBerry devices from a single interface.
Who Cooked Up Kenya Database Scam? Google Doesn't Know - PC Magazine
According to sources close to the matter, a small group unauthorized by Google pulled off the scheme, though the search giant does yet know their identity. Mocality maintains a crowd-sourced, publicly available online directory of about 170000 Kenyan ...
Utah Man Wrecks Prize Lamborghini Hours After Receiving Keys - PC Magazine
That's because the taxes on the Lamborghini might have exceeded $100000, according to the blog, which also cited an anonymous source acquainted with Dopp as revealing that the truck driver had already put up his house for collateral just to take ...
Report: Verizon to Challenge Netflix with Streamed Content - PC Magazine
Verizon could roll the service out in 2012, Reuters reported, citing sources close to the company's plans. A Verizon representative declined to comment on rumors and speculation. Verizon offers fibre-to-the-home Internet and TV services, ...
New Nook? Barnes & Noble Sends Out Invites for Nov. 7 Event - PC Magazine
Obviously something is coming," the source said. Last month, The Digital Reader said that B&N was prepping a $349 tablet, which would possibly be known as the Acclaim. The Nook Smart Touch e-reader would still be offered at $139 while the Nook Color ...
Keylogger Virus Hits U.S. Military Drones - PC Magazine
"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," said an anonymous source to Shachtman. "We think it's benign. But we just don't know." There's no official word as to whether the virus was introduced into Creech's systems by accident or whether these ...
How Will Tim Cook Lead Apple? - PC Magazine
"Tim Cook is the person who really runs Apple," says an ex-Apple employee who worked at the Cupertino campus, and spoke to PCMag on condition of anonymity. "He's very organized. Apple is such a seamless operation, and it's all Tim Cook. ...
Obama Takes Your Questions Wednesday at First Twitter Town Hall - PC Magazine
Decisions about what questions Dorsey will ask Obama will be in Twitter's hands, administration officials said during a Tuesday press call about the event. The majority, if not all, of the questions will come from the Web; thousands have already been ...
Apple iPhone Patent a Huge Blow to Rival Smartphone Makers - PC Magazine
... interfaces used in smartphones made by the likes of HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Research in Motion, Nokia, and others that run operating systems similar in nature to Apple's iOS, like Google's Android, said the source, who asked not to be named. ...
The Daily Won't Be iPad-Exclusive Forever - PC Magazine
But a source close to the matter told PCMag that The Daily could appear on other tablets on "the horizon of in the coming months. ...
Motorola: Droid 2 Dropped, Didn't Explode in Man's Ear - PC Magazine
"[T]he only things that could explode in a phone would have resulted in a phone that did not work, yet this phone worked," the source said. ...
Microsoft Got Kinect Because "Apple is a Pain in the Ass" - PC Magazine
... Natal will deliver on the more sophisticated elements of what Microsoft is promising at the price they're aiming for," said an anonymous source to CVG. ...
Facebook Deals: Hands On - PC Magazine
The employee who demonstrated the Deals application to me (she asked not to be named) said that she wasn't sure if there will be other colors of icons for ...
Report: First Chrome OS Notebooks Due in Nov. - PC Magazine
A source close to Google said this week that the Web giant is still on track to launch its Chrome OS by the end of the year, as well as its Chrome app store ...
FrostWire P2P Comes to Android: Hands On - PC Magazine
In describing the "kill switch" technology that LimeWire covertly installed, a source close to the company wondered if derivatives like FrostWire would ...
Lime Wire Turns Off Limewire P2P Service - PC Magazine
... LimeWire service from the Gnutella peer-to-peer network via an isolation technology the company covertly installed, a source close to the company said. ...
Google's Mayer Moves from Search to Local Services - PC Magazine
"It puts one of their star generals off a stable space and onto a space that is really promising," the source said. In July 2009, Google launched Google ...
T-Mobile Might Get iPhone Before Verizon, Analyst Says - PC Magazine
Wu's sources said Apple is open to more carriers in order to "attack Android more directly," he wrote. "Android's wins have been where iPhone isn't ...
Add "Developer Unrest" to the Agenda for Twitter's Inaugural Developer Conference - PC Magazine
That's the coming storm on the horizon, as predicted by an anonymous source inside the Twitter ecosphere. From Business Insider: "Given that Twitter ...