Mellisa Tolentino
Latest from Mellisa Tolentino
Tim Cook Says No To iPad-Mac Hybrid
Today’s mobile news roundup features Apple’s stellar financial report, Ericsson’s strong Q1, an ITC ruling win for Motorola Mobility and more. Apple rocks Q2 as Cook hints on settling patent disputes and no to hybrid Apple reported stellar financial report for Q2 2012, reporting a net profit of $6 billion. Combined revenue for iPad and ...
What is the IT Industry Afraid Of? It’s Anonymous
Bit9, provider of server security and protection against advanced persistent threats using an adaptive whitelisting approach, released the 2012 Bit9 Cyber Security Research Report–Kit Dotson, SiliconANGLE’s cybersecurity editor analysed the report yesterday. It tackles the number one threat that IT professionals are concerned about: Anonymous. Anonymous is the group famous for hackitivism or politically-motivated hacking ...
Billionaires Fund Asteroid Mining Mission
When I first watched James Cameron’s Avatar, all I could think about was how cool it would be to have a living, breathing, giant avatar of my own. Then when I watched it again, the issue of exploiting Pandora’s natural resources hit me. I thought, “is it possible for humans to exhaust Earth’s natural resources ...
Android Chief Crumbles In Court, Admits Java APIs Are Copyrighted
Quick recap: Oracle is suing Google for allegedly infringing their Java patents and used them in the development for the Android platform. Last week, CEOs from both parties gave their testimonies. Oracle insists that executives from Google knew they were infringing Java patents and that the Java APIs are copyrighted, but Google argues that they ...
Samsung App Says It’s the Galaxy S3 We’ll See on May 3
Today’s mobile news roundup features Google’s rumored cloud service launch today, Samsung’s growing trail of clues for their May event, Nokia’s poor credit rating and more. Google Drive today? According to some sources, the much awaited Google Drive or GDrive, Google’s consumer cloud service, will officially launch today. This will coincide with last week’s report ...
Ben Horowitz and Dalton Caldwell Speak Out on NYT Instagram Post
Ever since the Instagram acquisition was announced, everyone’s been more than willing to give their piece of mind about the deal. Many Instagram users were pissed about Facebook’s acquisition, stating that the massive social network would just ruin the beauty of the popular mobile app for photo-sharing. Some even threatened to quit the service because ...
The Google-MoMo-Huawei Rumor and the China Holdup
It’s been a while since we heard anything about the Google-Motorola Mobility deal. We all know that regulators from the US and EU already approved the deal but that doesn’t mean Google-MoMo’s already in the clear. They still need to get the approval from regulators in China, Taiwan and Israel. Chinese regulators are still scrutinizing ...
Latest Samsung Teaser Targets Apple Fanboys with Philosophy
As the Samsung Unpacked event draws near, more juicy news about the next Galaxy device surface the web. First, it was rumored that Samsung will be unveiling a range of new Galaxy smartphones, then came the news that they’ll be unveiling the official Olympic phone partner at the event on May 3 in London’s Earl’s ...
Google-Oracle Geek Trial Never Should’ve Reached a Jury
The Oracle-Google trial is well on its way as it enters the second week of the eight week trial. Oracle sued Google for allegedly infringing the Java patents when the latter was developing the Android platform. Sun Microsystems was the original owner of the Java script, but Oracle took it in when they acquired Sun ...
Apple May Settle iPad Case, Skype Comes to More Windows Phones
Today’s mobile news roundup features Apple’s ongoing legal battles against Proview and Samsung, a security company partnering with a carrier, X-ray phones and more. Apple vs Proview, Samsung The Guangdong High Court in southern China is looking for Apple and Proview to settle their dispute regarding the iPad trademark. “On the one hand, we are ...