The Glider

Despite a major partnership between Nook creator Barnes & Noble and Microsoft, the e-reader will keep the Android OS. - Bookseller Barnes amp; Nobles Nook e-reader and tablet continue to find footing in the increasingly crowded market and the company announced a major deal with Microsoft. Yet comments from B amp;N CEO William Lynch suggest the company will be sticking with the open-source technology powered by G...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Research In Motion has started showing off the features of BlackBerry 10 on a prototype handset. But enterprise users and consumers will need to learn a lot more before the first production model hits the market late in 2012. - Research In Motion is officially getting its act together and starting to show that it wants to compete far more effectively in the mobile space. The company on May 1 unveiled more details on BlackBerry 10 and released it to developers who want to start building applications for the platform. The...

Jury discussions will resume May 2 at the federal courthouse in San Francisco. When a decision is reached, the patent phase of the trial will begin immediately. - The 12-person jury continued in its second day of deliberations for several hours May 1 without resolution in the first phase of the potential landmark Oracle v. Google copyright infringement lawsuit. The jury discussions will resume at 8 a.m. May 2 at the federal courthouse in San Francisco. I...

REVIEW: HTC One X, coming to AT&T May 6 for $199, runs Sense 4.0, Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich and is skinny, light, big, fast, responsive and generally a pleasure to use. - Picking up the HTC One X AT amp;T's version of HTC's new line of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices a first impression is that it's thinner and lighter than one expects a phone of its size to be. The One X has a silky smooth 4.7-inch, 720p high-definition Gorilla Glass display and overall meas...

Research In Motion kicked off BlackBerry World 2012 by sharing what many of the attendees packing an Orlando conference center May 1 had come for: a peek at the BlackBerry 10 platform and newest BlackBerry handset, the Dev Alpha. While assuring the audience that the Dev Alpha was not final, and would change a bit before its year-end launch, new CEO Thorsten Heins, with help from Vivek Bhardwaj, head of software at RIM, showed off a boxy, not-so-slim phone running an operating system that at a glance seems a variation of Microsoft's Windows Phone, with tiles as opposed to icons. Bhardwaj also showed off improvements to the keypad, which he said learns about a user over time, becoming more custom, "like a glove." RIM executives also talked up Mobile Fusion, which by this time next year will, in addition to being an on-premise solution, be offered as a managed service or as cloud-based solution. There was also talk about the BlackBerry tablet, which one RIM executive called "the on-ramp to BlackBerry 10." Ultimately, Heins and his team made the BlackBerry environment seem a rather compelling place to be: "Let's rock and roll this!" he fist-pumped in conclusion, with a boyish smile. Now, to convince the rest of the world. - ...

The cyber-criminals behind the botnet stole ad revenue from Google by redirecting clicks from infected Apple Mac systems, according to Symantec researchers. - The cyber-criminals running the notorious Mac Flashback malware were bringing in as much as $10,000 a day during the height of the botnet's activity, according to security software vendor Symantec. The attackers behind the Flashback malware which at one point had infected as many as 700,000 Apple M...

Microsoft's decision to join the OVCC gives the seven-month-old group, launched by the likes of Polycom, AT&T and Verizon, a vote of confidence. - Microsoft and three other companies are joining a consortium of vendors looking to greater business-to-business communication via telepresence and video collaboration technologies that can connect to any vendor technology and any network through any device. Microsoft, Kathea, ACT Conferencing and T...

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins talked up RIM's new Alpha Dev phone, its BlackBerry 10 platform and BlackBerry users who are apparently super happy. Now, to get more of them. - ORLANDO, Fla. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion packed a convention center here May 1, offering the world its first glimpses of the RIM BlackBerry 10 platform and its newest BlackBerry smartphone, the Alpha Dev. Final versions of both will be out later this year. RIM also showed off a bit of it...

The Samsung Galaxy Note from AT&T is something of a cross between a phone and a tablet. It has a 5.3-inch active-matrix organic LED (AMOLED) screen, which is a little cumbersome for a phone, but its a good size for note-taking and it includes a stylus along with a notepad app that will let you take notes either in your handwriting or will convert your notes to text using handwriting recognition. Other applications that would normally use the on-screen keyboard can also use handwriting recognition. This allows you to either scribble notes and send the image of the scribble, or you can have the Galaxy Note translate it into actual text before sending the note. Of course, if your handwriting is bad enough, the Note wont get it, but it was able to understand even my sloppy writing. This device runs Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, and it supports Long-Term Evolution (LTE) as well as AT&Ts Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA+). The stylus stores in the bottom of the phone, and can be used for drawings as well as handwriting. - ...

REVIEW: With the Galaxy Note, Samsung has succeeded in creating a hybrid mobile device that doesn't look like the typical smartphone, nor can it be perfectly defined as a tablet. But it works equally well, whether you need to take notes or want to make a phone call. - The Galaxy Note isnt exactly a smartphone, although you can make phone calls on it, and its not exactly a tablet, either. Its an enterprise-friendly device thats designed for meetings and other demands for note-taking, along with normal smartphone and tablet functions. But it works fine just as a ph...