Amazon Kindle Fire dominates US Android tablet market. (Image: kodomut, via Flickr / CC)

Amazon is burgeoning forth in the Android tablet market with the help of its Kindle Fire, which accounted for over 50 percent of purchases not named Apple iPad.
According to online research firm comScore, Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet now holds 54.4 percent of the US Android tablet market despite grabbing only 29.4 percent share in December of last year.
“The Kindle Fire has almost doubled its …

Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO. (Image: dkpto, via Flickr / CC)

Google now has the upper hand in its ongoing legal battle with Oracle after Jonathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, took to the witness stand that Java programming language and its application programmable interfaces (APIs) are free and available for everyone to use.
The testimony from Schwartz is the most striking statement so far in the trial involving the search giant and the business software …

ComScore, Inc., a leading source for measurements and analysis of the digital world, has released a report based on data gathered by its comScore Video Metrix, which shows that video contents viewed online by around 37 billion Internet users have amounted to 181 million for the month of March alone, and video advertisements have topped to its highest peak so far at 8 billion.
Of the ranking released by comScore, Google snagged the top rank, mainly because of YouTube.com’s wide patronage, with …

Samsung to manufacture next-gen Nexus phone. (Image: Chris Samuel, via Flickr / CC)

A few days ago, it was reported that Internet giant Google plans to re-open its online device store and feature a Nexus phone during its opening.  Android chief Andy Rubin wrote in his blog, “We’ve come a long way since the first Android devices started hitting shelves three and a half years ago and since the launch of the first nexus device,” to announce that Google would begin the sale of the Galaxy …

Google supports mining project in Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs). (Image: Bruce Irving, via Flickr / CC)

Google co-founders Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, along with blockbuster director James Cameron, show support and sponsor Planetary Resources in their plans for a possible project for mining asteroids near the earth that are packed with resources such as water and minerals – some of which are very rare on Earth.
According to Tom Jones, a former astronaut from NASA and an adviser for Planetary …

Fitch has given Nokia a credit rating of BB+ from BBB-. (Image: Anders Sandberg, via Flickr / CC)

Fitch has delivered a blow to Finnish phone maker Nokia’s credit rating after it downgraded to “junk” due to relatively poor earnings in Q1 2012.
The global ratings agency gave a low BB+ rating from BBB-, which reveals the worsening core Devices and Services division in Q1, including the overall lack of visibility in the phone maker’s short-term future. Fitch also gave negative outlook …

A shot of gmail spam filter showing interesting patterns. (Image: Tesla Aldrich, via Flickr / CC)

India is now the world’s worst spamming country after it toppled the U.S. as king of spam, says security firm Sophos.
Sophos keeps an eye on spamming worldwide and releases its top 12 list of spam “dirty dozen” list of spam-distributing countries, in which India surpassed the U.S. in less than a year after it accounted for one in every ten spam emails globally.
The firm estimates …

Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. (Image: Joi Ito, via Flickr / CC)

Mobile operating system Android is not crucial to the success of Google, company CEO and co-founder Larry Page claimed in court last week.
The Internet search and online advertising behemoth’s CEO took to the courtroom its current trial with Oracle to find out if Google used Oracle’s Java programming technology without proper authorization and licenses.
Reuters reported that Page, while answering queries from …

Apple, Google and Intel served with antitrust lawsuit. Trial by June next year. (Image: Bill Bradford, via Flickr / CC)

Apple, Google and Intel will face an antitrust lawsuit after a federal judge ruled that the three tech behemoths and four others illicitly plotted against hiring each other’s employees.
District Judge Lucy Koh has told Apple, Google, Intel and 4 other companies that an impending antitrust will drop on their doorstep over allegations of an ‘anti-poaching’ …

Intel Ivy Bridge Processors Released. (Image: Intel Free Press, via Flickr / CC)

Intel has finally released its highly anticipated Ivy Bridge processors, the first semiconductor chips to use its 22nm tri-gate process node.
The world’s largest chip maker now promotes the Ivy Bridge as the ‘tock’ after its massively successful Sandy Bridge series that the company brought out 15 months ago. The new processors, steered by the flagship Core i7-3770K, use relatively smaller transistor but …