Logitech Harmony Link: a $100 wireless IR blaster for your iPad or smartphone (video)
Fighting over the remote control may be a thing of the past, if Logitech has its way — today, it's introducing the Harmony Link, a shiny black puck that promises to give every iOS and Android device …
Seeking a level playing field...
You may have heard that a number of government officials are investigating whether Google has violated state and federal anti-trust laws.
Microsoft paid out ‘more than £1 million’ to female executive
Microsoft paid out “more than £1 million” to silence a female executive who was unfairly overlooked to become managing director of its business in Britain. — Natalie Ayres worked at the computer sof...
Gling? Glam Buys Ning for $200 Million, Mostly in Stock
Glam Media, a social content platform for sites primarily targeting women, said it's buying Ning, the custom social-platform start-up co-founded by Marc Andreessen. — The purchase price wasn't discl...
Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites
Beware of BEAST decrypting secret PayPal cookies — Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to si...
Windows Phone manager who tweeted inside info about Nokia device is out at Microsoft
A Windows Phone principal program manager has left the company two weeks after making headlines for tweeting his impressions of an unreleased Nokia phone running the Microsoft mobile operating system.
WSJ Social, For a World Where Facebook Is the New Internet
Is Facebook a friend of news companies, or is it a rival? No matter how much success publishers have piggybacking off its traffic, they can't escape the cruel math: The more of their time consumers s...
Microsoft's plan to stop Bing's $1 billion bleeding
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Bing, Microsoft's two-year old search engine, is losing nearly a $1 billion a quarter, with no sign of letting up. — Microsoft ( MSFT, Fortune 500) has lost $5.5 billion on Bin...
HTC Rhyme: Verizon's female-targeted Android device with a bizarre charm indicator coming September 22nd for $199.99
And just like that, the long rumored HTC Bliss — herein known as the Rhyme — is official. Yep, after months of following the “lady phone” (our internal name for the handset) …
Interesting News, Any Time You Visit
When you visit Facebook, you should see the things you're most interested in, like status updates from your family and closest friends. Last week, we announced improvements to Friend Lists and a new ...
AT&T to smaller carriers: buy our spectrum (and save our T-Mobile merger)
It appears that AT&T's $39 billion bid to purchase T-Mobile may have moved into the desperation phase of the transaction. Bloomberg reports that AT&T is now asking MetroPCS and Leap Wireless whether ...
Foursquare Now Keeps Home Addresses Private
Foursquare has rolled out a new privacy option to help prevent users from unwittingly sharing home addresses with strangers. — The update, first spotted by About Foursquare, enables the user to desi...
Google, Oracle Ordered to Meet Again Tomorrow in Android Dispute Mediation
Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. (ORCL) are scheduled to meet again tomorrow after a daylong session yesterday in an attempt to resolve a lawsuit alleging the search engine company's Android technology in...
Former Intuit CEO Bill Harris Launches Personal Capital
Bill Harris has spent his entire career at the nexus of the financial and technology industries, first as the CEO of Intuit, then PayPal, and then as an investor over the past decade. Now he is bring...
Hi5 Confirms “Significant” Layoffs, Wraps Them In Mumbo Jumbo Speak
Earlier today, we heard social network Hi5 was laying off a large number of their remaining employees. When we pinged them about this, we expected the usual “no comment” or simply no response. Inste...
Magisto raises $5.5M to magically edit your videos
Cloud video editing startup Magisto is coming to market with a new service that will take raw video files and make them worth sharing with friends and posting on Facebook, with no manual editing invol...
After Pets, Diapers And Soap; Amazon's Quidsi Tackles Toys With Retail Site YoYo
After conquering online retail in diapers, soaps, beauty products, most recently pet supplies, Amazon-owned Quidsi is moving into its next vertical—toys. Quidsi is debuting YoYo.com, a toy e-commerce...
American Express Buys Virtual Currency Monetization Platform Sometrics For $30M
Exclusive: In a push to boost its payments platform for the gaming industry, American Express, has acquired virtual currency platform and in-game payments provider Sometrics.
Allentown: Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions
Lehigh Valley workers tell of brutal heat, dizzying pace at online retailer. — Elmer Goris spent a year working in Amazon.com's Lehigh Valley warehouse, where books, CDs and various other products a...