Sources: New Apple TV launching in March, near-immediate availability hinted for new iPads
iPads and Apple TVs work together for innovative AirPlay features — Reliable sources familiar with Apple's upcoming product release have said that the company is in fact launching a new Apple TV alo...
Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos
Developers of applications for Apple's mobile devices, and Apple itself, came under scrutiny this month after reports that some apps were taking people's address book information without their knowled...
Why Windows 8 is Microsoft's most vital launch in years
Microsoft Windows was a fact of life for an entire generation raised on the PC. But we live in a different world now, and perhaps nothing underscores how much that world has changed more than the fac...
HP lays off 275 employees from webOS division
We've just received word that HP has laid off more than 270 employees from its webOS division as it “no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions that it required before.” This...
Apple developing new audio file format to offer ‘adaptive streaming’
Format will provide high- or low-quality files to iCloud users — Apple is working on a new audio file format that will offer “adaptive streaming” to provide high- or low-quality files to users of it...
More feds ditch BlackBerrys
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is planning to start the process of ditching Research in Motion's signature BlackBerry wireless phone largely in favor of the iPhone, the agency...
Track Who's Tracking You With Mozilla Collusion
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs took the TED stage Tuesday morning to introduce Collusion, a Firefox browser add-on that lets you track who's tracking you across the web for behavioral ta...
Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, And Obvious Put $4.5M In Sleek Social, Mobile Gifting Platform Karma
Karma, a new social, mobile gifting service from the founder of TapJoy, has raised funding from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, The Obvious Corporation, Stephen Gillett, Felicis Ventures and other a...
The Pirate Bay, Now Without Torrents
As announced a few weeks ago, The Pirate Bay has now largely stopped serving torrents. — Today, all torrent files being shared by more than 10 people have been replaced by so-called magnet links. —...
Bing Maps and Nokia Release Unified Map Design
Last year, we entered into a strategic partnership with Nokia which included plans to offer a unique and compelling mapping experience for our customers. Since then we've been working with Nokia and ...
IBM takes big steps toward extremely fast quantum computing
IBM is announcing today that it has made major advances toward creating a practical, full-scale quantum computer, a fabled, theoretical machine that relies on the tiniest atomic properties to compute ...
SprintTV comes to iPhone bringing ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, Disney, MTV and Comedy Central with it
Click to view slideshow. — Lucky iPhone owners on Sprint's network (yeah we tried others) can now download Sprint TV and watch some pretty awesome programming. … The app is free. — Sprint via Spri...
Scoop: Less than 1M Google TV devices in use
It's widely known Google TV hasn't exactly been a success story. Early CE partner Logitech lost millions on the device, and consumer feedback was mostly negative after the first devices reached the m...
Groupon Acquires Travel Search Company Uptake
Groupon has acquired the travel research start-up Uptake, Groupon just confirmed. — The price of the deal was in the “teens” of millions, and is essentially an “acqhire” for Uptake's 20-person Palo ...
Google Will Offer $1 Million In Rewards For Hacking Chrome In Contest
For the last three years, Google's Chrome browser has left the world's premiere hacking competition unscathed, even as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari have all been taken down by the assembled s...
5 smartphone trends at Mobile World Congress
The key characteristics of new mobile devices are bigger, faster, or cheaper — Big smartphone vendors such as High Tech Computer (HTC) and LG Electronics are trying to get their mojo back after some...
Microsoft ‘Illumishare’ demonstrates the future of remote physical object interaction
Microsoft has taken the wraps off another research project today as part of the company's TechForum event. Illumishare allows remote people to share physical or digital objects onto any surface.
Google exec hints of Android 5.0 release this fall
Pattern of earlier releases suggest fall, but Lockheimer says Google wants to be ‘flexible’ on timing — BARCELONA — Google is not letting on much about the next version of Android, even though it is...
Samsung: 'We're not doing very well in the tablet market'
One Samsung executive gets brutally honest about his company's performance in the tablet market, even while offering up some hope for its line of Galaxy Note mobile devices. — Samsung executive Hank...
Chrome now easily opens email links in Gmail, thanks to some HTML5 magic
The next time you open up Gmail in Chrome keep an eye out for the prompt above, which uses HTML5 to finally close the gap between the way Google's browser handles mailto: links and its popular email s...
French Regulator Warns of Google Privacy Policy
BRUSSELS (AP) — Google's new privacy policy appears to violate the European Union's data protection rules, France's regulator said Tuesday, just two days before the new guidelines are set to come into...
Once Film-Focused, Netflix Transitions to TV Shows
Belying the “flix” in its name, Netflix is now primarily an Internet streaming service for television shows, not feature films. — TV series now account for more than half of all Netflix viewing. Th...
CNBC Claims LTE Quad-Core iPad 3 Coming at New York Media Event Next Week [Updated]
CNBC has just issued a Tweet claiming its sources have indicated that Apple will indeed be launching a quad-core iPad 3 next with 4G LTE cellular data capabilities next week.
Microsoft's next Steve: Windows boss faces biggest test
(Reuters) - For Steven Sinofsky, the stern but creative engineering manager who runs Microsoft Corp's flagship Windows division, February 29 is showtime. — On that day, in Barcelona, Sinofsky will p...
Intel lays out its plan for Android, will cut chip size in half by 2014
As Paul Otellini said at the Intel press event at Mobile World Congress, “it wouldn't be an Intel presentation without a roadmap.” The company has laid out the long-term plans for its mobile processo...
Mercedes-Benz Brings Siri To Their Cars
Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans to integrate Apple's Siri into its A-Class electronics system that would allow drivers access to their iPhone apps using voice commands. The program, call...
Microsoft shows ‘Holoflector’ augmented-reality mirror
This afternoon at the Microsoft TechForum event in Redmond, the company's researchers showed a series of prototypes and demos in areas including advanced displays and augmented-reality applications. ...
HBO Go coming to Xbox 360 on April 1st
HBO has slowly been bringing HBO Go to a multitude of connected platforms, from Roku boxes to some Samsung connected TVs, and now we finally know when it'll come to the Xbox 360. Tonight at an HBO ev...
Seamless brings super simple food ordering to the iPad
Online food-ordering company Seamless has brought its ordering and menus to the iPad today — a move that hungry couch potatoes will likely applaud. — Seamless currently competes with smaller-but-sti...
Hot Item: Pre-IPO Facebook Shares
Facebook Inc. isn't publicly traded yet, but that hasn't stopped investors like Leon Cohen from trying to buy the social network's stock now. — The 83-year-old resident of Aventura, Fla., would like...
Law firms: Facebook Credits violates antitrust law
Summary: Facebook is once again being accused of violating U.S. antitrust laws by requiring that social game developers use Facebook Credits on its platform. This time two law firms are getting invol...