February 22, 2012
- Dell's new ultrabook is compact, well-built and speedy, sporting a good backlit keyboard and a bright screen. But it has subpar battery life.
- California's attorney general reached a deal with six of the largest companies in the mobile-device market over privacy policies for apps.
- Start-ups and small businesses are embracing a new tactic in trademark battles—online shame—by rallying support via websites and other social media.
- Hewlett-Packard's fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 44% as sales in the company's personal computers business continued to fall.
- Several start-ups are hoping to piggyback on the recent popularity of social-networking site Pinterest.com.
- Turkey has that most scarce, yet highly sought-after, attribute among European economies: growth. With this rising tide, is now the time for investors to be contemplating Turkey's growing Internet economy?
- Some early adopters of Hadoop, software that makes it easier and cheaper to analyze vast amounts of data, say it challenging to use and rolling it out will take time.
- Former inventor Ray Kurzweil, who believes computers will soon think like humans and ultimately merge with us, a notion he has dubbed "the singularity," discusses his predictions and his status as a polarizing figure.
- As the market for technology IPOs revs up and the biggest banks seek to capitalize on the size of their balance sheets, the practice of companies selecting underwriters that also provided loans to them is coming under focus, spurred by Facebook's IPO process.
- A group of dozens of state attorneys general have raised concerns with Google over the Internet giant's new privacy policy, marking the latest public flare-up over the planned changes.