Industry

Android heads to desktops as reliance on Internet grows

Users increasingly are turning to the Internet for apps, storage and entertainment

Apple still king of mobile apps with over $10 billion in App Store sales

Apple may have the minority mobile share, but it monetizes iOS via mobile app sales far more effectively than Google Play

Android on pace to surpass 1 billion devices this year, says Gartner

Windows is expected to stage a small comeback, but the number of devices based on Apple OSes will increase the fastest, percentage-wise

Oracle buys Corente for software-defined networking

Oracle will be able to offer customers network virtualization for both LANs and WANs

INTEL tries on wearables — APPLE AppStore sets $10B record — 1B DROIDS to ship in 2014 — 3D PRINTER in every pot — SCHNEIER gets a day job

Welcome to the era of radical innovation

Why the end of Moore's Law may be a good thing for innovation

Next ARM server chip maker: Qualcomm?

Qualcomm's CEO says its expertise in smartphone chips could translate well into servers

Intel chief opens CES with parade of wearables

The company has developed a tiny PC platform called Edison that can be embedded in wearable gadgets

Microsoft buys Parature for customer self-service software

Acquisition of Parature's technology for creating self-service portals for customers will round out Microsoft's Dynamics CRM product

Android + Windows 8 = Windows Super-Frankenstein

Desperate times lead to desperate measures, and the PC makers' desperation has led them to a three-headed Franken-PC