TOKYO ? Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda replaced five Cabinet members Friday in a bid to win more cooperation from the opposition and voters to raise the sales tax and rein in the bulging fiscal deficit. The new Cabinet is meant to create “the best and strongest lineup to steadily tackle the issues that we [...]
The company that has single handedly spurred the golden age of CableCARD has found a new way to deliver its technology to consumers with a 6 tuner multi-room DVR with a 2TB hard drive, codenamed Q, and its companion extender, codenamed Echo. No word on the price of either but both are expected to ship [...]
ZURICH (Reuters) ? Switzerland’s economy minister Johann Schneider-Ammann expects the Swiss franc to weaken to about 1.40 francs per euro in the medium term, he told a Swiss newspaper on Sunday. “My minimum expectation is that the Swiss National Bank keeps the lower boundary of 1.20 (francs per euro),” he told SonntagsZeitung. “In the midterm [...]
With an estimated half a million applications on offer from Apple?s App Store, the challenge for every developer is getting their work noticed. Of course, if the app is connected to a successful website or product, there?s a good chance it?ll make it to the top of the charts. So it may not come as [...]
Facebook is banking a lot on the future of HTML5 and the idea of people going web-first instead of native-apps for their mobile content fixes, and today mobile gaming company Cellufun taking one step in its strategy to position itself as a key player in that space, too: it?s announcing that it is rebranding itself [...]