Articles by Peter Suciu

Microsoft on Friday announced that it is putting a fresh spin on advertising. Rather than the passive type of advertisements that viewers often zip past after "timeshifting" programming with DVRs, Microsoft's NUads will offer an interactive -- and more personalized -- experience The software giant has signed up Toyota, Unilever and Samsung Mobile a...

Mobile handset maker Nokia announced Thursday that it would slash 10,000 jobs, eliminating roughly 19 percent of its workforce by the end of 2013. In addition, it will close a factory and several research centers in Germany, Canada and Finland, and three senior executives will be stepping down....

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a list of proposed generic top level domains (gTLDs) on Wednesday, including such brand-specific Web suffixes such as ".jpmorgan," ".walmart" and ".microsoft," as well as more generic terms such as ".book" and ".love." ICANN, the nonprofit Web-management group that operates ...

Verizon Wireless announced Tuesday a new shared data plan that will work across 10 devices. It will be folded into the carrier's Share Everything Plans, which are scheduled to begin on June 28 for new and existing customers The shared data plan will offer unlimited voice minutes, text, video and picture messaging. It will allow Verizon customers t...

On May 18, the day social media giant Facebook went public, Nasdaq CEO Bob Greifeld was flying high. However, it wasn't from anticipation that the social network would see sky-high levels of trading -- it was because Greifield was on plane flying across country, according to reports that surfaced Monday Greifeld was present at the opening bell cere...

Epic Games on Friday officially announced its upcoming Unreal Engine 4 technology, which could be the foundation for the next decade of graphics technology in video games. This comes the day after the close of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the video game industry's largest trade show, and it's notable in that the current video game console systems will not be able to take advantage of this technology...

While rivals at Sony and Microsoft have long looked to create encompassing living room entertainment devices, Nintendo once again looked to what it does best -- namely to provide an immersive gaming experience. At its Tuesday press conference at E3 in Los Angeles, the company suggested that it could once again make an industry game-changing move R...

Sony kicked off its Monday evening press conference in advance of this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles with a peek at upcoming titles for the PlayStation 3 video game console and PlayStation Vita handheld system. Sony also officially introduced several new features for the PS3, reaffirming its commitment to the system "We want t...

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) remains the biggest video game trade event in the world, but Microsoft proved that the electronic entertainment world could be very much in transition as the Xbox looks to continue its dominance in the living room "Xbox has moved from being the best-selling console in North America to being the best-selling c...

Google users in China will now be notified when they are using search terms that could trigger Internet blocks set up by the country's government. This new feature is perhaps Google's boldest move yet in a censorship battle with Beijing that has been going on for two years On Thursday the search giant announced that it made a technical change to ho...

Gigabyte introduced its new X11 notebook computer on Thursday, calling it the lightest notebook on Earth. Weighing in at just 975g (2.13 lbs.) and having the thickness of just 0.3cm (0.12 in.), the computer is certainly sleek. But does this weight game really even matter? ...

While it was widely assumed that Facebook would pull an about-face following its recent high-profile IPO and employ some restraint when it came to future acquisitions, the opposite appears to be happening. The social networking giant reportedly has several potential moves in play The biggest -- for now -- could be the acquisition of the popular mob...

The Dragon was caught by its tail on Friday. The unmanned SpaceX spacecraft, which launched into orbit earlier this week, has successfully docked with the International Space Station, marking a first for a cargo-carrying private spacecraft The docking was assisted with the station's 58-foot robotic arm controlled by astronaut Don Pettit. The histor...

While it sounded like a sure thing, it was apparently anything but. Investors lined up to take part in last week's Facebook IPO with hopes of skyrocketing returns, but instead of blasting off, the stock lost ground. For Facebook, it might as well have crashed and burned. Nothing is certain with stocks, of course. But this week it was reported tha...

After last weekend's delayed launch, the Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX blasted off Tuesday, carrying the unmanned Dragon capsule into low-Earth orbit While the launch itself could have been considered breathtaking, there will be more "hold your breath" moments ahead. The next one will come on Thursday when the craft is scheduled to dock with the ...

Google has officially closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion. This could transform the search engine giant from a software player to a maker of hardware: smartphones, tablet PCs and even set-top boxes. More importantly for Google is gaining control of Motorola's patent portfolio, which could help it fend off lawsuits from ...

While Google remains the search engine champion, it is also now apparently the top dog with the Web browsers where searches take place. Google's Chrome is now the most popular Web browser, having overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer worldwide, according to the latest figures from StatCounter Chrome took the lead with 32.76 percent of the market ...

Samsung overtook Nokia to become the world's top cellular phone maker earlier this year, shipping more than 92 million handsets in the first quarter. The company's Galaxy S II smartphone had stellar sales, reaching 20 million. The third time might be more than the charm -- it could be big on an intergalactic scale, with some 9 million pre-orders r...

The image-based social networking site Pinterest has raised US$100 million in a financing round, and this brings the value of the company to around $1.5 billion, an unnamed source told All Things D. Rakuten, one of Japan's biggest online retail operators, led the round of financing. It was joined by a group of investors including venture-capital ...

After months of legal wrangling between technology titans Oracle and Google, phase two of the case has headed to the jury, where 11 good people will decide whether Google actually infringed on Java-related patents, and more importantly whether this was a threat to Oracle's business Two patents in question -- U.S. Patents 6,061,520 and RE38, 104, kn...