Italian Ferrari designer Sergio Pininfarina has turned his hand to mobile phones. He has teamed up with Samsung to design the company's latest phone that it claims is targeting the fashion-conscious users.
US software outfit Overture is to buy up some services of rival Fast Search & Transfer, another sign that it intends to compete more intensely for the internet search market. Overture said it will use Fast's AlltheWeb.com to experiment with...
Microsoft swapped geek for glitz, rolling out a new collection of designer mice. The wired model, in more modest blue and orange options, was created by famed industrial designer Philippe Starck. Ken Fry, Microsoft hardware design group director...
ARM is to pay $910m in cash and shares for Artisan, the US-based transistor-level designer for systems-on-a-chip. ARM chairman Sir Robin Saxby said in a conference call: "This will be a combination of the two leading silicon IP (intellectual...
Jonathan Ive, the UK designer credited with helping revitalise Apple's fortunes, has been awarded a place in Who's Who - the UK's biographical record of the great and the good. He was also named "Designer of the Year" by London's Design Museum in...
Apple's style gurus should watch their backs because the killer-gadgets of the future will be devised by none other than Joe Public say analysts. Within five years its the customers that could be whipping up the latest gadgets from their living...