iPhone 4S review
Reviewing the iPhone 4S is in many ways a lot like reviewing the original iPhone 4, except that it's not. The device, which was just announced at a special event on Apple's campus, is very much the s...
iPhone 4S Preliminary Benchmarks: ~800MHz A5, Slightly Slower GPU than iPad 2, Still Very Fast
Apple's ability to control the entire information chain, down to the point of limiting leaks, appears to be gradually slipping as it grows as a company. Case in point are the numerous hardware …
More social, more fun - Come out and play!
We just wrapped up Zynga Unleashed, a news event where we announced brand spankin' new play - including a gaggle of new social games including our next “Ville”, and our very own new play service, code...
Steve Jobs on Why He Wore Turtlenecks
Steve Jobs's black turtlenecks helped make him the world's most recognizable CEO. But the Apple co-founder wouldn't have worn them if his employees had accepted the nylon jacket he proposed as a corp...
Smartphones and Tablets Drive Nearly 7 Percent of Total U.S. Digital Traffic
iOS Accounts for Largest Share of U.S. Smartphone and Tablet Devices while Driving the Majority of Non-Computer Traffic — comScore Releases Report, “Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and C...
BlackBerry users revolt against RIM as disruption spreads
RIM faces customer fury at further loss of services such as BlackBerry Messenger (updated with new statement from RIM) — Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is facing a user revolt after tens ...
David Cameron's ‘porn filter’ will make no difference, say ISPs
Four big providers insist web controls will only apply to people taking out completely new contracts — Claims that David Cameron has forced a new “porn filter” on UK internet content have been disav...
Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $81M From Salesforce, SAP At $600M-Plus Valuation
Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised $81 million in Series D funding from strategic investors Salesforce.com and SAP Ventures with Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, and prior investors including An...
iPhone theft suspects enter no-contest plea
Two men pleaded no contest today to theft of lost property in a case involving last year's iPhone 4 prototype, which Apple claimed was so valuable that a price could not be placed on it. — The men, ...
New Apple Software Adds Features to Older Phones
Even for an iPhone owner who chooses not to upgrade to the new iPhone 4S, now there are hundreds of new software features, big and small, for current phones. The same goes for iPads and recent iPod T...
BlueStacks Ready to Test Its Android-on-Windows Software
BlueStacks, a start-up focused on allowing Android apps to run on Windows PCs, said it is ready to start public testing of its software. — The company is making an alpha, or early test version, of i...
AT&T starts CTIA off right by introducing five new smartphones to its Android lineup
At CTIA last March, AT&T stole the show by announcing its intent to purchase T-Mobile US. This time around, the news is a bit more modest in comparison but the company's still hoping to give us a bit...
New Topsy Index Leverages Influence & Relevance For Google+ Search
Today Topsy Labs, a real-time social search platform, announced the addition of Google+ as a source in its real-time social search index. Topsy features an influence algorithm to display the most p...
Tracking the Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username
Click the local Home Depot ad and your email address gets handed to a dozen companies monitoring you. Your web browsing, past, present, and future, is now associated with your identity. Swap photos ...
Roku announces $50 LT model, will add HBO Go streaming to all of its boxes this month
That cheaper, purpler, Roku LT we spied passing through the FCC and beta testing is official, and will hit retail shelves for just $50 next month. It's only $10 less than the also-720p-limited Roku 2...
We've got the internal docs that Apple employees use to explain iCloud and iOS 5
Last week, we detailed the internal docs Apple uses to tell its employees how to sell the iPhone 4S, the new iPods and the new Cards app. Today a tipster added to the trove two more internal docs. iC...
Sling Media Launches $29.99 SlingPlayer App For Android ‘Honeycomb’ Tablets
Sling Media, an EchoStar subsidiary, this morning announced the availability of SlingPlayer for tablets running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or later. The app is available on Android Market now and costs ...
Ubuntu will power HP's new cloud service
Ubuntu Linux will be the primary operating system powering HP's upcoming cloud service, Ubuntu maker Canonical said last week. HP recently opened a private beta program for an infrastructure-as-a-ser...
Spotify Bug Kept Users Logged In to Facebook Even After They Disconnected
Spotify's music software recently had a bug — since removed — that logged users back in to their Facebook accounts even after they had actively disconnected. — That the bug existed is particularly n...
Asus Zenbook Hands On: Good Lord There's a Lot of Awesome Packed Into Something This Thin
It's kind of insane it took a $300 million slush fund from Intel to get notebook makers to create MacBook Air-like ultrabooks, the first results from Asus are, well, pretty damn impressive.
AppleCare+ to End Informal Free Replacement Policy for Damaged iPhones
Last week, we noted that Apple had introduced a new “AppleCare+” offering for iPhone, replacing the previous $69 AppleCare with the new $99 warranty extending coverage to two years from the date of de...
The article that inspired Steve Jobs: “Secrets of the Little Blue Box”
The 1971 article about phone hacking that inspired Steve Jobs. … It's also available in Rosenbaum's collection The Secret Parts of Fortune. Also in Slate: Rosenbaum reflects on the article that inspi...
Lulzsec hacker: ‘we still have Sun emails, stored in China’
Sabu, the erstwhile leader of the hacking crew, says he is effectively on the run as he gives interview to Reddit readers about LulzSec's achievements, Facebook, sentencing and more — The hacker who...
Apple releases iTunes 10.5 with support for iOS 5 wireless syncing
Apple on Tuesday released iTunes 10.5 for both Mac and PC, bringing with it support for wirelessly syncing with devices running the soon-to-be-released iOS 5. — iTunes 10.5 is now available as a dir...
Amazon Had A Really Strong September
Amazon got a lot more visitors in September than it did last year, which points to a strong Q3. — According to Comscore, Amazon's pageviews in the U.S. were up 26% in September and 19% in Q3 versus ...
Nvidia Chips to Power World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
It's been about a year since the United States lost its title as the home of the world's most powerful publicly known supercomputer. Last November, the “Jaguar” computer based at the U.S. government'...
Alfred, The iOS Butler, Serves Up Serendipity On A Silver Platter
Back in July I wrote about a nifty iPhone app called Alfred. It's a sort of Yelp meets Pandora: you tell it what kind of restaurants you like, and then it tries to make some solid recommendations.
Wal-Mart to localize offers for Facebook fans
NEW YORK (AP) — Just in time for the crucial winter holidays, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. aims to recreate the feel of a local store for its more than 9 million Facebook fans. — The world's largest retaile...
As Expected, Alternative DNS Systems Sprouting Up To Ignore US Censorship
After the US government, via Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, started seizing domains without any notification or adversarial hearing (things that most of the wo...
Good Technology eyes developers, launches Good Dynamics
Summary: Good Technology rolls out a mobile software development platform for Apple's iOS to enable more enterprise-grade tablet apps. — Good Technology, best known for its enterprise push email sof...
Good Technology eyes developers, launches Good Dynamics
Summary: Good Technology rolls out a mobile software development platform for Apple's iOS to enable more enterprise-grade tablet apps. — Good Technology, best known for its enterprise push email sof...
Wal-Mart to localize offers for Facebook fans
NEW YORK (AP) — Just in time for the crucial winter holidays, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. aims to recreate the feel of a local store for its more than 9 million Facebook fans. — The world's largest retaile...
Mobile Devices Seen Doubling by 2020
With the number of cellular connections nearing the number of people on the planet, the fast-growing cellphone industry could hit a wall if it doesn't convince people to get more than one wirelessly c...