iOS 5.1 Now Available with Japanese Siri, Camera Enhancements, and More
Following Apple's announcement that iOS 5.1 would debut today, the software update is now available for existing iOS devices. Among the notable additions are Japanese language support for Siri, camer...
Apple new iPad hands-on (update: video!)
Here she is — the [iPad HD]! Er, new iPad. Breaking away from the numerical tracking system used before (and still used in the iPhone range), Apple has decided to highlight the most major change in ...
Apple TV vs. the new Apple TV (2012): what's changed?
The Apple TV might still be a hobby, and thus not the main event at Tim Cook's Apple presentation today, but Apple's participation in the living room has had its fair share of rumors, speculation and ...
Peter Molyneux Is Leaving Lionhead Studios and Microsoft, Will Finish Kinect Fable
Peter Molyneux, one of the most respected video game developers in the world and one of the top creative minds on the Xbox team, is leaving Microsoft and Lionhead Studios, Kotaku has learned.
Apple's press conference showed a brand unraveling
Apple has long been known for its intense focus on consistent branding and beautiful simplicity. — While today's Apple event unveiled a couple new improvements to an expected lineup of products, it ...
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners
How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners — This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just ...
A completely redesigned Google Search App for Windows 7.5 phones
(Cross-posted on the Google Mobile Blog) — Windows Phone owners can now get easy access to the Google Search App, available in the — Windows Phone Marketplace. Check out these features which help...
With $1 Million On The Line, Chrome Finally Cracked In Hacking Competition
It took four years and possibly the biggest reward a software company has ever offered for information about its own security flaws, but Google finally found what it was looking for: A few hackers wil...
Three iPads later, other tablets still dead on arrival
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Apple unleashed the original iPad two years ago, selling millions and silencing tablet-market naysayers. As Apple prepares to unveil the third version of its tablet on Wednesday...
Is Amazon getting into original TV?
Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube are pouring resources into original content. Now, Amazon may be, too. — FORTUNE — Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube are all betting big on original content. Now, Amazon may be ...
Adobe previews Shadow, a free Web development utility, on Adobe Labs
Web program works with development tools to preview site designs simultaneously on multiple mobile devices — Adobe has unveiled Shadow, a lightweight Web development utility that helps designers and...
Analyzing Apple's All-Time Top Apps Lists
With the iOS App Store passing 25 billion downloads, Apple has published all-time rankings of the top 25 free and paid iPhone and iPad apps. (Via Daring Fireball.) — Digging in... - Angry Birds is...
American Express transforms Twitter hashtags into savings for cardholders
American Express is giving cardmembers one super compelling reason to tweet about promotional offers: instant savings at name brand U.S. merchants. — The company launched a “Tweet your way to saving...
Spotify: ‘We have to turn ourselves into the OS of music’
Streaming music service provides stats for the first apps to launch on its desktop apps platform — Spotify users have spent 1,500 years inside apps within its desktop application since the start of ...
Google promises a unified social and mobile game platform
Within the year, Google will turn its different game platforms into a single, unified platform that developers can more easily target. That's the promise made today by Punit Soni (pictured second fro...
The problem with investing based on pattern recognition
A famous story in artificial intelligence is how the US military developed algorithms to determine whether an image had a tank in it. They used a standard machine learning method: feed the computer a...
Slide to unlock: how Apple's patents are changing Android
Although the worldwide patent lawsuits between Apple and nearly every major Android smartphone vendor have been bitterly fought and may eventually involve government intervention, there's really no da...
‘Anti-Display’ Network BlogFrog Raises $3.2 Million for NY Office and Mom Blog Empire
BlogFrog, a community-building network for mom bloggers, has raised $3.2 million in a Series A round of funding led by Grotech Ventures. Seed investor David Cohen, founder of TechStars also participa...
What's Next For Google Play? Audiobooks And Magazines
Yesterday, Google announced the launch of Google Play, a rebranded Android Market which consolidates all of Google's media offerings, including apps, music, movies and e-books, into one portal. But i...
Bill Gates-owned Corbis unveils an ‘iTunes for music licensing’ with GreenLight Music
Corbis may be best known for licensing digital images. But the Seattle company, started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1989, is expanding its footprint in the digital music arena today with th...
Samsung sues Apple over patents in Korea (after saying it wouldn't)
Samsung has backtracked on plans to avoid a legal dispute with Apple in Korea, after the company revealed that it has filed a suit in the country. According to a Reuters report, Samsung is claiming t...
NBC partners with YouTube to deliver video services for the London 2012 Olympics
US TV company NBC has partnered with Google-owned video service YouTube to provide its video player and livestreaming infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic Games. — Comcast, which was recently ...
Nuance buys Transcend for $300 million, bolsters medical business
Summary: With the Transcend purchase, Nuance said it will be able to better target mid-sized hospitals. — Nuance Communications said it will acquire medical transcription company Transcend in a deal...