Vodafone Buys Cable & Wireless For $1.7B, Gives Mobile Carrier Bigger Window On Enterprise, Broadband

Big news from the UK this morning: Vodafone, one of Europe’s biggest mobile operators, has made a formal offer to buy up the assets of Cable & Wireless for £1 billion ($1.7 billion), a deal that catapults Vodafone into running its own fixed line network in the UK and specifically will give it a much

Twitter Can’t Beat Facebook

Hardcore Twitter users, I know you’re a loyal bunch (in fact, I consider myself one of you). So don’t take this personally.

This article is about Facebook and how it is either going to destroy Twitter, force the microblogging service to change or make it an aquisition target by a rival, such as Apple

Read Offline: News.me Automatically Downloads Your News Whenever You Leave Home

News.me, the newsreader app hatched in The New York Times’ R&D lab and incubated at betaworks, today added a nifty feature to its new iPhone app, which gives readers instant access to their news offline — whenever they leave the house. The new feature, called Paper Boy, allows users to set their home

Adobe unveils CS6 and subscription-based Creative Cloud service, up for pre-order now (video)

Adobe’s biggest day of 2012? Go ahead, don’t be afraid to call it what it (probably) is. For starters, the outfit is introducing Creative Suite 6 to the world in formal fashion, with 14 applications either unveiled or refreshed. Photoshop CS6 is graduating from beta — seeing an update that’ll provide

Walmart to unleash its Vudu magic on South America, Europe, Asia

Walmart’s Vudu service will be dipping a toe in foreign waters for the first time, with a planned expansion that could see it landing in as many as 30 new countries. Mexico will be the first to get the service — some time in June — before it continues in a southerly direction toward other Latin American

How the iPad Is Changing Education

The iPad may only be two years old, but it’s already begun to change many things. Reading is one of them. Work is another. It is selling like crazy, but it will be some time before most of the people you know own a tablet.

The market for this type of device may only be in its infancy, but it’s already

Samsung’s Next Galaxy puzzle unfolds

The folks at Samsung have revealed a bit more than they expected they would – perhaps – in the late evening hours here before their big “Next Galaxy” reveal ahead of their May event in London. The smartphone (if it’s the Galaxy S III) and tablet (if it’s a Galaxy Tab)

Adobe Officially Unveils CS6 And Its $49/Month All-Inclusive Creative Cloud Subscription Service

Today is a big day for Adobe. Not only is the company officially unveiling the next versions of virtually all of the applications in its Creative Suite 6, but Adobe is also launching its Creative Cloud online offerings. This launch marks a major change in how Adobe is selling and marketing its flagship

Google Makes Its Big Video Push With AdWords For Video

A couple of weeks ago, early participants in the new AdWords for Video program gathered at the YouTube offices. The ostensible justification for the meeting was a fancy photo shoot, but YouTube executives also gave a little pep talk, laying out their vision to make video advertising available to small

La redes sociales africanas prosperan dentro de la cultura móvil

Redes sociales móviles nuevas y de rápido crecimiento podrían desafiar el crecimiento de Facebook en el continente.