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Tablet Maker Fusion Garage Goes Off the Grid

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 19, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Questions about the future of the Singapore-based electronics firm are swirling after it gets dropped by its PR firm and its Web site falters.

Transphorm Nabs $20 Million From Google Ventures, Kleiner

Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

Yet another “stealth” start-up came out of hiding today with a big Silicon Valley funding. That would be Transphorm, a power conversion technology company, that has raised $20 million more in a Series C financing led by Google Ventures and including Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital. That adds to $18 million already raised.

Trying Out a Revamped Myspace

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 21, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

Katie reviews the revamped Myspace, with its focus on topics in popular culture, including television, music, movies, celebrities and comedy.

Motorola Teases a Honeycomb-based Android Tablet for CES, Stings Rivals

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 20, 2010 at 1:42 pm PT

Looking to increase the buzz around its forthcoming tablet, Motorola has launched a teaser video on YouTube. While revealing very little about Motorola’s own product, the video tries to sting the competition with barbs aimed at the iPad and Galaxy Tab. A hovering bee suggests that, as expected, the tablet will run the Honeycomb version of Android.

The 168-Hour Work Week

John Paczkowski in News on December 15, 2008 at 11:34 am PT

If the line between your work and home life hasn’t yet been blurred by near-ubiquitous Internet connectivity, just you wait. Because by 2020 it’s likely to have been erased entirely. That’s the word from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, whose recent “Future of the Internet III” study suggests that the dawn of the mobile phone as a “primary” Internet connection will essentially obliterate the boundaries between work and home.