Silicon Valley

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has rolled out an iOS 4.2 update that finally brings the latest features in iOS to iPad users. For starters, iPad users can finally enjoy background processing, …

Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for this market alive. John …

Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for this market alive. John …

Apple is hiring up an army of legal beagles to help it in its fight against other smart phone makers, as the giants of the mobile space begin to slug it out in the International Trade Commission’s courts.

The European Union today announced that they will be launching a preliminary anti-trust investigation into alleged down-ranking of competitors on Google Inc. search results – as well as deliberate preferential treatment for Google products.

Oracle Corp. (ORCL) is acquiring Art Technology Group Inc. (ARTG) for approximately $1 billion in an purely cash-for-stock deal. Oracle plans to push further into mobile following the deal, particularly …

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has rolled out an iOS 4.2 update that finally brings the latest features in iOS to iPad users. For starters, iPad users can finally enjoy background processing, …

Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for the U.S. market alive. …

In what could see the coming together of two of the scariest media empires in the world, rumours reach us that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Apple have been secretly collaborating on a tablet-based newspaper called The Daily, and it’s set to launch early next year.

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, California, CEO Eric Schmidt pulled an unreleased Android phone (rumored to be the Nexus S) out of his pocket and released the newest tidbit of Gingerbread intel: it will include a Near Field Communication feature.

There has been a lot of talk about the latest version Android: 2.3 a.k.a. Gingerbread recently. Rumours of a successor to the Nexus One as well as reports of Gingerbread being rolled out “any day” have abounde

After months of rumours and speculation Facebook finally got round to unveiling their “Project Titan” messaging product yesterday. The new system centres around a unified inbox that deals with your IMs, SMS, email and Facebook messages, so in theory you’ll only have one conversation thread for each of your contacts.

Nice move Apple, very nice. With the uploading of one simple image Apple have stolen most of Facebook’s thunder just an hour before the social giant’s much-anticipated press conference.

On the eve of their big press conference where they are expected to announce their “Gmail killer”, Facebook has overtaken eBay in value to become the third most valuable web-based company in the US.

The talent shortage in Silicon Valley only seems to be getting worse. Following a series of high-profile departures from Google (mostly in the direction of Facebook), and talks of some big-money deals going on in an effort to retain staff. There was a story going round (completely unconfirmed, of course) that Google gave a senior engineer $3.5million in stock to stop them leaving for Facebook.

Another day, another swirling internet rumour vortex. Well, we needed something to fill the void now all that Nexus Two business is sorted out, didn’t we? A few months ago we got wind of an internal Facebook product codenamed “Project Titan”, which Facebook apparently refer to as their “GMail killer”.

We saw Google’s quarterly financial results not too long ago, and while The Big G wasn’t quite on par with Apple’s earning power, they still fared pretty damn well. So well, in fact, that the powers that be in Mountain View have reached into their deep pockets and are throwing a thousand greenbacks at each employee as a Christmas present.

The annual Semiconductor Industry Association dinner Thursday night in San Jose, Calif. seemed to focus rather little on chips, and rather a lot on tea. Tea-bagging that is.

The GSMA has announced that Google will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress for the first time

San Jose based Cisco Systems sometimes jokingly gets referred to as the “plumber of the internet” but with the firm having recently shipped its 30 millionth IP Phone and its new line of video phones and tablets set to take the world by storm, Cisco is proving that no matter how dumb the pipe, there’s nothing dumb about this plumber.

At its event in its Palo Alto headquarters on Wednesday, Facebook failed to shock and awe the world with news of anything really groundbreaking, instead sticking to incremental upgrades to its mobile SDK, the predictable launch of Facebook Deals, the opening of its location based APIs and single sign on mobile login.

Sure, Silicon Valley has a remarkable pedigree and history of producing world-beating technology companies, as well as an established technology presence, networking scene and excellent weather, but you know what us Brits have? Words.

Speaking at a mobile event in Facebook’s Palo Alto Headquarters today, Zuckerberg fielded a question from an unfortunate Mashable Apple fanboy about when the social networking firm would come out with an iPad app, only to be told “The iPad is not mobile…next question.”