Digg's founder and Milk co-creator Kevin Rose was said Thursday to have been hired on at Google. An AllThingsD tip had him starting work at the company on Monday along with "some others" at the company. What his role would be at Google, or what would happen to Milk, wasn't evident early on.... Read more...
LG, Pantech, Samsung, Korean carriers fined for price fixing
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission issued across-the-board fines on Thursday to domestic phone designers and carriers for price fixing. Read more...
LG, Pantech, Samsung, Korean carriers fined for price fixing
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission issued across-the-board fines on Thursday to domestic phone designers and carriers for price fixing. IT ruled that LG, Pantech, and Samsung, as well as three dominant carriers KT, LG Uplus, and SK Telecom, had colluded on the prices of phones. The group was accused of artificially inflating the prices of cellphones, only to pretend they were offering a discount for what was supposed to be a less expensive device... Read more...
LG, Pantech, Samsung, Korean carriers fined for price fixing
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission issued across-the-board fines on Thursday to domestic phone designers and carriers for price fixing. IT ruled that LG, Pantech, and Samsung, as well as three dominant carriers KT, LG Uplus, and SK Telecom, had colluded on the prices of phones. Read more...
Apple stock flirts with $600 milestone
Apple stock briefly surpassed the $600 mark in early Thursday trading, tracking shows. The milestone was reached during the pre-market period, with a peak of $600.01, but shares have since slipped significantly, down to about $593 each as of this writing. Nevertheless, today signifies the highest value Apple stock has ever achieved... Read more...
Sonos reworks Mac, PC Controller apps with mobile influence
Sonos picked Thursday to preview an imminent, major reworking of its desktop Controller app for the Mac and PC. Read more...
China Mobile growth hopes pinned on iPhone tie-up, network upgrade
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Mobile , the world's biggest carrier by number of subscribers, is set to post its slowest quarterly growth in almost two years on Thursday due to weak user rates, though the pace might pick up later this year if it attracts higher-end users with a network upgrade and lands an iPhone contract. ... Read more...
Intel Thunderbolt gets faster PCIe 3.0 base with Ivy Bridge
Intel stated Thursday to PCWorld that its Thunderbolt implementation would get a faster back infrastructure with its Ivy Bridge processor era. Read more...
Non-US Apple online stores run out of launch day iPad stock
Apple has already run out of launch-day online orders of the new iPad outside of the US, according to Electronista's checks. Read more...
RIM buys radio-frequency company Paratek
TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said on Thursday it has acquired Paratek Microwave Inc, a company whose adaptive radio-frequency technology improves mobile-handset call quality and battery life. The Canadian smartphone maker did not disclose financial details of the purchase of privately held Paratek, which is based in New Hampshire and funded by a string of venture capital investors including Polaris Ventures and Europe's biggest chip maker, STMicroelectronics . Read more...