Apple: We Stopped Supporting Carrier IQ With iOS 5
Apple has finally weighed in on the Carrier IQ debacle. In a statement issued moments ago, the company said while it has used Carrier IQ's network diagnostic software in the past, it recently stopped...
The Spyfiles
Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, ...
Google Targets Amazon's ‘Prime’ With 1-Day Delivery
In a potential strike against Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. is in talks with major retailers and shippers to create a service that lets consumers shop for goods on the Web and receive orders within a d...
Apple's Grand Central Terminal Store Opens December 9th, State Probing Lease Deal
In line with previous rumors, Apple has officially revealed that its massive new retail store inside Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal will be opening on Friday, December 9th.
YouTube's New Homepage Goes Social With Algorithmic Feed, Emphasis On Google+ And Facebook
YouTube is launching what the company calls the biggest redesign in its history today, including sweeping changes to its homepage and channel pages. The goal is better personalized video discovery an...
Microsoft's new Windows 8 Resilient File System (ReFS) will be server only
Microsoft's new file system for Windows 8 will only be available in server variants of the operating system, WinRumors has learned. — The software maker is currently readying a new file system as an...
Crack This Code and Become a British Spy
The GCHQ — Britain's secretive agency of intelligence experts — wants to find new spies. To make sure it has a candidate who's up to scratch, the agency is inviting hobbyist cryptanalysts to try and ...
The public Windows 8 beta will be released in late February
Sources close to Microsoft have informed TNW that the public Windows 8 beta will be released in late February of 2012. — The timing of the public beta launch has been the subject of much debate in t...
Apple Invents Digital Device Handshake using Next-Gen Cameras & Invisible Inks
On December 1, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals an all new way of sharing data quickly and securely between two or more devices in consumer...
Apple's CEO Responds to a Siri-us Matter
More on Siri, the personal-assistant application on Apple's iPhone 4S: — Yesterday, Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, wrote a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook expressing he...
With Facebook At Its Core, Color Will Relaunch As Champion Of The Video Status Update
Color is almost ready for round two. — The company — which famously raised $41 million and launched last spring only to watch its initial product bomb (which in turn spurred plenty of Schadenfreude)...
Google+ Now Lets You Conference People Into Hangouts With Free Voice Calls
Hangouts could be the new way to conference call. Google employee Jarkko Oikarinen has just announced that free voice calls to people in the US and Canada can now be made from within Hangouts with ex...
Australia court extends Samsung Galaxy Tab sales ban
(Reuters) - An Australian court on Friday extended a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics' latest Galaxy tablet in the country by at least a week, further delaying the South Korean technology firm's at...
New Owners Survey Shows iPhone 4S More Popular than its Apple Predecessor
BETHESDA, MD - A new ChangeWave Research survey of iPhone 4S owners shows customer satisfaction ratings for the latest Apple smart phone are higher than for its predecessor, the iPhone 4. ChangeWave ...
The EC to slam Google with 400+ page SO
The European Commission (EC) is expected to issue a statement of objections (SO) spanning more than 400 pages that will spell-out allegations of Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) abuse of dominance early next ye...
Spotify iPad app in the works, devices possibly coming in the future too
EXCLUSIVE: UK MD talks to Pocket-lint — Spotify's UK MD Chris Maples has told Pocket-lint that the Spotify apps launch was just the first of a long line of announcements that the music streaming com...
Apple Says Siri's Abortion Answers Are a Glitch
Apple said Wednesday that Siri's apparent inability to retrieve information about abortion clinics and women's health services in some areas was not intentional or deliberate. — The company attribut...
StatCounter: Chrome Grabs 25.7% Of Global Market, Overtaking Firefox
According to Web analytics company StatCounter, Google Chrome has surpassed Mozilla Firefox to become the second most used Web browser in the world after Internet Explorer. — I'm always a bit wary a...
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime review
What does a laptop in the post-PC era look like? Is it an ultrabook with familiar internals and software in a dramatically slimmed-down shell? Or is it possible to use a modern mobile OS like Androi...
Smule builds social music app empire by buying Khush
Smule, the successful iOS music app start-up behind Ocarina, Magic Piano and I am T-Pain, is making its first acquisition. On Thursday, Smule bought fellow social music start-up, Khush, in a bid to t...
IE9 Leading Modern Browser on Windows 7 Worldwide
Browser market share numbers are always interesting because they can be interpreted in a variety of ways. We've said for some time now that the thing we care about most is that the web experiences we...
Digital Music Meets Its Match in Apple iCloud
One of the more interesting ideas in the new wave of cloud-computing services is the music locker. This is a service that lets consumers store their music collections on a remote server and access th...
Twitter Quietly (Finally) Launches Self-Serve Ads
It's still just in test mode, and only open to a handful of advertisers. But those who can use it can now buy ads directly via Twitter, using a credit card and a Web browser, without ever having to t...
Exclusive: Comedy of Errors Led to False ‘Water-Pump Hack’ Report
Jim Mimlitz on vacation in Russia last June with his wife and three daughters. Photo courtesy of Jim Mimlitz. — It was the broken water pump heard 'round the world. — Cyberwar watchers took notic...
Barnes & Noble Reports Q2 Net Loss Of $6.6M, Says NOOK Is Now A $220 Million Business
Barnes & Noble this morning reported sales and earnings for its second quarter ended October 29, 2011, and they're a mixed bag. Total sales decreased slightly, from $1.9 billion to $1.89 billion, com...
Intel, Total Immersion working on augmented reality chipsets
(Reuters) - Total Immersion, a pioneer in emerging field of augmented reality (AR), is working with Intel to bring AR features, like gesture recognition, into Intel's chipsets, an executive of the pri...
What Cash Crunch? Revolution Growth Raises $450M for Its First Fund.
Revolution Growth, a new investment vehicle led by former AOLers Steve Case, Ted Leonsis and Donn Davis has raised $450 million in their first investment fund. — Originally, as I reported in March …
HP CEO: Apple likely to take away PC leadership position next year
HP's new chief executive Meg Whitman told journalists Apple was doing “a great job” and that her company's once much smaller rival could likely pass HP to become the world's leading PC maker next year...
Will the other guy run a red light? MIT algorithm figures the odds, tells you to brake
You've got a traffic light that's just turned green. Some idiot approaching the intersection at right angles doesn't appear to be slowing down. Will he stop or will he sail through on red and give y...
Awe.sm Helps Developers Track All The Key Details In Social Sharing, Raises Cool $4 Million
There are plenty of companies out there that help you monitor social media activity. Awe.sm has been going deeper into what's really going on, providing a service that lets developers track …
Acer to cut ultrabook prices to US$799-899 in 2Q12, says company president
Acer expects its ultrabook prices will be able to drop from US$1,000 currently to US$799-899 in the second quarter of 2012, a decline of 20%, and will drop further to US$499 in 2013 as other PC brand ...
WikiLeaks Unveils 160 Firms' Surveillance Gear Sales Docs, Still No Submissions System
WikiLeaks is still in the secret-spilling business. But not, apparently, in the business of accepting those secrets through the anonymous dropbox that was once its trademark.
AT&T issues fierce rebuttal to FCC's report on T-Mobile buy: ‘the document lacks all credibility’
Released earlier this week, the FCC's report on AT&T's scuttled application to pick up T-Mobile USA for $39 billion called out the carrier at almost every opportunity.
Sprint swoops in with $1.6B deal to save Clearwire
We can stop wondering if Clearwire will default on its interest payment, for the time being anyhow. Sprint, which owns almost half of Clearwire, has stepped up with a plan to spend $1.6 billion over ...