iOS 6: Apple drops Google Maps, debuts in-house ‘Maps’ with incredible 3D mode
Rough mockup showing the user-enabled 3D mode (on the right) — According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application...
Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO
Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move th...
HP restarts tablet manufacturing
SHANGHAI : Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced it will resume production of consumer tablets but says it will run them on Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. — The world's largest technology ...
iCloud beta website reveals plans for Notes and Reminders web apps, affirms iOS 6 beta coming soon
We know that Apple has been busy tweaking their iCloud.com website and testing new features like iOS 5-like notification banners, and now it appears that Apple is expanding the website's web-applicati...
Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo
Google is in talks to acquire Meebo, according to two sources close to the situation. — The price for the company would be about $100 million, according to one of the sources. — Meebo's latest pro...
Apple accuses Samsung of purposefully destroying evidence
On May 1, Apple filed a motion in the Northern District of California alleging that Samsung intentionally destroyed documents it was obligated to hand over as part of the discovery process, an act ref...
Facebook Fleshes Out Privacy Policy To Comply With Data Protection Audits, Will Hold Q&A On Monday
Today Facebook will start sending the first of three billion notices to users about proposed changes to its privacy policy, which were made to comply with a Spring deadline …
Apple's Siri: the ‘best smartphone ever’ is the Nokia Lumia 900. Wait, what?
When you break out your iPhone 4S and ask Siri what the ‘best smartphone ever’ is, your humble virtual assistant will recommend you to buy Nokia's Lumia 900. — Which is, of course, a decent phone in...
USPS To Stop Delivering iPads And Kindles To Troops And Overseas Consumers On May 16
The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service …
Intel CEO says Windows on ARM will struggle without legacy support
During Intel's annual investor meeting today, CEO Paul Otellini wasted no time in emphasizing the major advantage x86 architecture support will offer when it comes to choosing between Windows 8 hardwa...
Google, Twitter quizzed on Facebook-Instagram: source
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached out to Google Inc and Twitter in an investigation into Facebook Inc's $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing service Instagram, a source fami...
Samsung: PenTile AMOLED displays last longer, that's why we use them
Samsung announced its new Galaxy S III smartphone to great fanfare last week, though some observers weren't terribly happy with one particular feature: the 4.8-inch 720p Super AMOLED display uses a Pe...
LinkedIn Is NOT Buying Monster: Here's The Real Story
Just got off the phone with a source close to LinkedIn. — LinkedIn is not going to buy Monster, and it was never particularly interested in doing so. — Basically, a little while back, Monster's Ba...
Microsoft's Windows 8 upgrade offer: What's coming when
It's just about time for Microsoft to launch its expected Windows 8 upgrade program. — For the past several years, in order to keep PC sales from falling off a cliff in the months shortly before Mic...
LinkedIn, others weigh Monster deal-sources
LinkedIn Corp and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners are among a number of parties that have expressed interest in a potential deal for Monster Worldwide Inc, according to people familiar with t...
Playlist-based radio, post to Tumblr and embeddable Play Buttons come to Spotify for Windows and Mac OS
We've added some new features to our Windows and Mac OS apps that we wanted to let everyone know about. Spotify Version 0.8.3 which starts rolling out today includes the following updates:
Three-quarters of smartphone owners use location-based services
A new report finds that 74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location...
Apple, the Other Cult in Hollywood
For most of Gossip Girl's first four seasons, none of the hit show's glamorous teens carried the most talked-about smartphone of the last five years: Apple's (AAPL) iPhone. Because of a product place...
Sony, Panasonic Fall to 30-Year Lows
Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. (6752), Japan's biggest consumer-electronics makers, fell to the lowest level in three decades after forecasting earnings that missed estimates because of a failure to e...
Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging, Report Says
Apple's iMessage, the free, Internet-based text-messaging service, isn't the only thing AT&T's chief executive should lose sleep over. Facebook is also eating into text-messaging revenues for carrier...
On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data
Sitting along Yankee Stadium's third base line during New York University's rainy graduation two years ago, Max Salzberg couldn't focus. The phone in his pocket wouldn't stop buzzing. With each noti...
In war for talent, ‘brogrammers’ will be losers
Editor's note: Gina Trapani, a web and mobile app developer, is the creator of ThinkUp, a social media insights engine. Follow her on Twitter: @ginatrapani — (CNN) — Start-ups are fighting a war fo...
Video of Steve Jobs Parodying ‘Ghostbusters’ Surfaces
Apple fans must be dying to get a peek into Craig Elliott's attic. After he released a video last week of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs acting as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he aired another one e...
Old tech on new: Kickstarter project Etcher brings Etch A Sketch to the iPad
Much as we love new technologies, there's something about nostalgia that is so persuasive that it can cross time and new ideas. This is why we expect the Etcher Kickstarter project to do well.
Dropbox fixes app rejection issue, complies with Apple's rules
Applications using the Dropbox development kit for iOS are no longer being rejected from the App Store by Apple after links to an external purchase option were removed. — Filip Radelic, developer of...
Adobe Creative Cloud, subscription editions, go on sale
With the release of Creative Cloud, Adobe has also released the first commercial version of Adobe Muse, which enables designers to create HTML 5-based websites without writing code. It's available on...
Foxconn chief says company is preparing for Apple television - report
Foxconn is preparing to manufacture Apple's anticipated television set, the manufacturing company's chairman reportedly said in a speech. — The comments allegedly made by Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou ...
OMG, is Amazon going to kill tech blogs too?
Is Amazon seriously launching a tech blog that aims to compete with gadget blogs like the Verge and Gizmodo? According to a new report from “The Daily,” yes. The funny thing is that Amazon already h...
AT&T, Leap talked merger in recent months: sources
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) has held talks to buy smaller rival Leap Wireless International (LEAP.O) in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign U.S. carriers are...
Verizon Refuses to Identify Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
Last fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. — By filing a mass-BitTorrent lawsuit the company became one of the many copyright holders who ...
Insight: Salesforce's plan for opulent campus a costly debacle
(Reuters) - In early 2010, Marc Benioff, founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, summoned several of his top real estate and finance executives to his San Francisco home to float a bold idea.
Video-sharing sensation Viddy rockets toward 30M users, banks $30M
Smoking-hot mobile video-sharing startup Viddy has closed a $30 million financing round and is fast-approaching 30 million registered users. — If you've taken a two-month hiatus from the Internet, t...
Mobile devices account for nearly 10 percent of internet traffic, according to StatCounter
On April 7th, web analytics firm StatCounter recorded a milestone event: for the very first time, mobile devices reportedly accounted for over 10 percent of traffic on the global internet.
Facebook's IPO already oversubscribed: source
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's record initial public offering is already oversubscribed, a source familiar with the share listing said, days after the world's largest social network embarked on a cross-co...
Droplr Pro: file-sharing service goes big-time with 100GB of cloud storage for $3 a month
There are lots of options out there for quickly sharing files, blocks of text, screenshots, and the like, but several of us at The Verge are big fans of Droplr. It's a great free service …