TECH BOX

https://www.infoworld.com:443/d/computer-hardware/analysts-smartphone-buyers-will-benefit-changing-chipset-market-208829?source=rss_ The mobile chipset market is in a state of flux with a number of key vendors struggling, but analysts say the result of the turmoil will be more advanced high-end smartphones and cheaper low-end devices. On Monday, chip maker ST-Ericsson was dealt a blow as co-owne..

https://www.infoworld.com:443/t/mac-desktop/apples-imac-the-road-irrelevance-208819?source=rss_ Sales of Apple's iMac, the computer often credited with saving the company, have peaked and by the end of 2014 will account for approximately 2 percent of the firm's revenues, analysts now predict.

https://www.infoworld.com:443/t/cringely/when-links-are-outlawed-only-outlaws-will-use-links-208859?source=rss_ Don't look now, but there's a crime wave surging across the Webbernets. Everywhere around you, people are recklessly sharing dangerous and illegal hyperlinks. Lock up your children, barricade the doors and windows, throttle your broadband connection, and pray that the FBI gets to these..

https://www.infoworld.com:443/d/mobile-technology/microsoft-may-not-want-smashing-surface-rt-tablet-sales-208857?source=rss_ The reported slow early sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet has raised a question among IT analysts -- does Microsoft truly want to produce boffo sales of the new device? Some analysts say that Microsoft can't afford to have smashing Windows RT- or Windows 8-based Surfa..

https://www.infoworld.com:443/d/the-industry-standard/dells-acquisitions-not-yet-paying-dividends-208882?source=rss_ Dell's effort to move away from PCs into enterprise products has been slow as the company battles a challenging economy and tries to weave together acquisitions in a coherent manner. Dell's legacy has been entrenched in the PC business, but in recent years it has focused on moving..

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/20/windows-1-0-the-windows-8-of-its-time/ I keep saying that the closest parallel Windows 8 has in tech history is nothing less than Windows 1.0 itself

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/22/behold-some-of-the-first-apple-computer-photos-ever/ Paul Terrell opened the Byte Shop in Mountain View, California in December of 1975. It was one of the first computer stores in the world, and did a lot to help popularize a business which just barely existed at the time. And it earned an even more legendary spot in tech history in 1976, when a couple of loca..

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/25/facebook-asks-staffers-to-dump-their-iphones-and-use-android/ In the Bay Area, where so much mobile software is developed, the iPhone

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/26/no-google-didnt-buy-icoa/ When I woke up this morning, the big breaking technology news on the web was that Google had plunked down $400 million to buy ICOA, a builder of public Wi-Fi networks. Numerous major tech sites published pieces on the acquisition, some with helpful analysis explaining why it was such a significant development. And then, there was more..

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/26/prweb-making-the-web-more-spammy/ Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has a fascinating post on PRWeb, the company which issued a fake press release about a fake Google acquisition. Even when it