iPhone 5C: The simplicity behind the design

Recently, we saw Apple introduce a new plastic iPhone. Why plastic? Because it's cheaper, sure. But it's also one of the smartest industrial design decisions Apple has ever made. Manufacturing the 5C: Harder, better, strongerI can't put a dollar figure on what Apple's bill of materials for the 5C is, but it's safe to say...

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Few buyers for BlackBerry: Sources

A handful of potential bidders, including private equity firms, are lining up to look at BlackBerry, but initial indications suggest that interest is tepid and buyers are eyeing parts of the Canadian smartphone maker rather than the whole company, several sources familiar with the situation said. Private equity firms are mostly interested...

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Internet access is a vital healthcare tool

When Mark Zuckerbergannounced a new private sector initiative last month to make affordable internet access available to people in developing countries, he breathed new life into a long-simmering debate within the global development community - what is the value of technology in societies suffering from urgent social, economic...

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Now, text messages without leaving a trial

A new messaging app calledAnsa has been developed for those who take their online footprint seriously.Ansa, the new messaging app, launched atDisrupt SF, which is one of the biggesthackathon events of the year hosted by tech blogTechCrunch, allows people to chat "off the record", which enables the phone to delete all...

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Dell to focus on emerging markets

Dell chief executive Michael Dellsaid in an interview with CNBC, that the focus of the company, which he is taking private, will include expanding sales capacity and growing in emerging markets and tablets. Dell, who won a battle with activist Carl Icahn to win control of the computer company, also said he will shift...

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Twitter investors to reap reward with IPO

In June 2007, Evan Williams was looking for investors for a quirky internet communications service called Twitterthat he had co-founded. He had signed up a number of well-known Silicon Valley financiers, but he also dashed off a note to his old friend Dick Costolo, who had just sold his company to Google, asking if he would like...

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How Lehman Brothers collapse impacted IT pros

Two months after the Lehman bust and just two weeks before his wedding, in November 2008, Rahul Bhargava lost his job. The IT professional, based in Bangalore, couldn't get himself to tell his family, or his wife, because of the stigma of suddenly finding himself unemployed, and went ahead with the wedding anyway.Every morning,...

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