Why Your Next iPhone Should Be Prepaid
Earlier this week, we did the math and declaredprepaid carrier Cricket Mobile to be the best iPhone deal around, but today's announcement that Sprint's Virgin Mobile will also be offering the iPhone 4...
App Center: A New Place to Find Social Apps
Today we're launching the App Center to make it easier to find apps you can enjoy with friends. — The App Center features mobile and web apps, such as Draw Something, Pinterest, and Nike+ GPS, and n...
App Developers Signal Apple Allegiance Ahead of WWDC and Google I/O
This month, the world's two largest mobile app platform providers, Apple and Google, enter what is arguably the most critical month of the year for each company, when each hosts their annual developer...
Ultrabooks beware: Apple receives broad patent on MacBook Air wedge design
It's been pretty easy to look at recent Apple design patents and see that they haven't carried with them the broad patent coverage many might think, but that isn't the case with Apple's new US patent ...
Apple, Motorola Mobility Patent Trial Scrapped By U.S. Judge
Apple Inc.'s patent-infringement jury trial against Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit scheduled for June 11 was canceled by a U.S. judge after he rejected each side's damages arguments.
Apple Said To Add Baidu As Iphone Search-Engine In China
Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to add Baidu Inc. (BIDU)'s search engine on iPhones in China, part of a push to broaden its services and user base in the world's most-populous nation, according to two people ...
T-Mobile confirms it will offer WWDC attendees iPhone-compatible ‘4G’ at Moscone West
A T-Mobile spokesperson told us in a response to our story earlier that yes the carrier is going to have an iOS device-compatible “4G” HSPA+ Mobile network available to attendees in Moscone.
Bing introduces New Britannica Online Encyclopedia Answers
A core focus for us here at Bing has been about delivering relevant information in a more organized way to help you find what you need more quickly and get stuff done. An example of this approach has...
Apple agrees to $2.25 million settlement in Australia over ‘misleading’ iPad 4G advertising
Apple has agreed to pay settlement costs of $2.25 million to end a legal case that accuses the company of misleading the Australian public over the 4G-compatibility of the new iPad in the country, acc...
The New iPad's Closest Competitor? The Old iPad.
During Apple's last earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said the iPad 2′s new lower price point was unlocking demand among price-sensitive customers. So how is it selling? — Very well, turns out. — Accor...
Change your Last.fm password now, there may have been another security breach
24-hours after LinkedIn confirmed a massive password leak, online music streaming service Last.fm has issued a statement saying that it's currently investigating whether it too has leaked some of its ...
Free iPads scheduled for landing at airports
Another reason not to make eye contact with anyone on the concourse. — (Credit: OTG) — If you enjoy the ritual of sitting down at your departure gate to kill some time with your iPad while waiting...
Speedier Shortening
We mean it when we say we've been reading all your tweets and emails. And we're listening! In the week since our release, we're already making adjustments, so that saving and shortening links in the...
Disney Implements 28-Day Embargo on All Physical Rentals
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has begun delaying select new disc releases 28-days to kiosks, video stores and Netflix — a policy the studio started with the May 22 release of The Secret World...
Twitter Shuts Down Thunderclap, New Tweet-Boosting Service
Twitter appears to be building a very nice business on the basis of its ability to promote tweets. The last thing it needs is anyone else coming in and using its platform to offer a competing service...
Best Buy Founder Resigns, Explores Options for Stake
Best Buy Co. founder and largest individual shareholder Richard Schulze resigned as chairman and a director and said he intends to explore options for his 20.1% stake, a move that could make the elect...
Nest Learning Thermostat now on sale at Amazon for $249
Just last week we reported that the Nest Learning Thermostat was coming to Apple stores, and now the energy-saving gadget has made its way onto Amazon. Introduced by ex-Apple executive Tony Fadell, t...
“RIP Good Times”: Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis
Not too long ago, I found myself sitting in the second row of a conference room, anxiously scribbling notes, at what is now known as the “RIP Good Times” presentation. The presentation has become a c...
RIM discontinues 16GB PlayBook, still ‘committed to the tablet space’
RIM's beleaguered PlayBook line is being pared down. The company has confirmed that it's canceled the 16GB PlayBook and will be moving forward with only the 32GB and 64GB models. While there are sti...
Facebook beefs up security of logins on new devices in face of industry breaches
According to Facebook, it would like to make your mobile experience a tad more secure. In a blog post from the security team today, it outlined some of the initiatives that the company is using to ma...
Camera+ sells 8M copies in 2 years, declines Adobe, Google, Zynga and Twitter acquisition offers
The super popular camera replacement app Camera+ has sold its 8 millionth copy on the two-year anniversary of its announcement, reports developer Taptaptap. Camera+ has held a unique success …
Recruiting the Draft Picks: Twitter's Internal Shuffle, Spurred by a Year-Long Talent Raid on the Valley
Twitter is looking more and more different by the day — and it's not just the company's fancy new little blue bird logo. — The company is in the midst of a significant ongoing …
Sierra Wireless outs thinnest-ever 4G LTE module, teases skinny AT&T-ready laptops and tablets
One of the bigger challenges of spreading LTE has been size; going 4G has tended to put on a little weight. A new Sierra Wireless embedded modem, the AirPrime EM7700, could be just the ticket to shed...
Dell Announces a New $100M Credit Fund for Entrepreneurs to Spark Startup Growth & Innovation
how to raise it, how to make it and how to, potentially, survive without it. Yet, Dell has taken one big step toward solving every startup's qualms today.
In Battle With Oracle, HP Outs Customer Cell Numbers
As part of its court battle with Oracle, HP has released names, email addresses, and cell phone numbers from over 150 customers. But why? Image: Peter McCollough/Wired — When Oracle announced plan...
Hark Strikes A Deal With Universal To Bring Your Favorite Movie Sound Bites Online
Hark, the online repository for audio clips, is getting more studio content Thursday, with a deal that will bring sound bites from Universal's film library online. Hark will get access to about 100 U...
Chrome For Metro Set To Arrive In Next Dev Channel Release
As the release of Windows 8 draws closer, all of the major browser vendors are also preparing to launching their applications for the touch-centric Metro UI that will prominently feature in next versi...
MD5 password scrambler ‘no longer safe’
Summary: MD5 encryption is “no longer considered safe” by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords. — The original author of the MD5 password...
Twitter's mobile revenue surpassed Web on many days: CEO
(Reuters) - Twitter has generated more advertising revenue from its mobile platform than from its website on many days in the last quarter, CEO Dick Costolo said Wednesday, highlighting Twitter's prog...
Video hands-on with the purported next-generation iPhone metal back
In late May, we had exclusive high-resolution photos of both black and white next-generation iPhone backs. These backs showed a brand-new, thinner design with a smaller dock connector, new speaker gr...
Confirmed: Sprint's Virgin Mobile second US carrier to offer prepaid iPhone; from June 29, plans start at $30
Apple's push into the US prepaid market has been given another significant boost after Sprint-owned Virgin Mobile announced that it will become the second operator to offer the iPhone to its customers...
An Ivy Bridge too far? AMD may have finally lost the battle against Intel's juggernaut
Welcome to Computex 2012, the coming-out party for Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU refresh and Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. The two halves of an irresistible hardware-software combination …
Samsung fights Apple move to block Galaxy sales
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will fight Apple's move to stop U.S. sales of its new Galaxy phone in the latest flare-up of an intellectual property battle between the...
The all new foursquare launches to cash in on “making the real world easier to use”
Foursquare has been teasing the fact that it was about to launch a brand new version this week, and we've been following all of the clues on what it might potentially entail.
Search beats display by large margin in mobile ad spending, study shows
Facebook better hurry up with that search engine it's reportedly building. A new survey of the mobile market shows that search ads are outstripping display ads by a wide margin in every region of the...
How Google and Microsoft taught search to “understand” the Web
Inside the architecture of Google's Knowledge Graph and Microsoft's Satori. — Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson — Despite the massive amounts of computing power dedicated by search engine compan...
Another Super Angel Levels Up: Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures Closes $70M
What happens when a super angel gets its wings? You become a boutique fund. — Or at least that's how Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures is putting it with a fresh fund worth about $70 million.
Samsung Elec names components chief Kwon as new CEO
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS), Asia's technology powerhouse, reshuffled some of its top team on Thursday as it battles Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for supremacy in smartphones and leads the ch...
Social marketing is hot: Unified scores $14M following big industry exits
Facebook's market value may be plummeting, but the demand for its ads, and social ads in general, remains at fever pitch. Here to help brands and enterprises with their social play-calling is startup...
Import bans over patents cause ‘substantial harm,’ FTC says
Google's efforts to block imports of Microsoft's Xbox and Apple's iPhone could cause “substantial harm” to consumers, competition, and innovation, the Federal Trade Commission said in a letter today.
iOS to provide 2% of Google's total revenue in 2012, analyst says
Devices running Apple's iOS, the main competition for Google's Android OS, are expected to power the largest chunk of the search giant's mobile revenue and will represent two percent of the company's ...
Facebook's Answer To The App Store Is Days From Launching
Facebook's App Center, an App Store equivalent for Facebook applications, is launching in the coming days, according to a source briefed by Facebook on the service. — The launch date could be as soo...
Google Brings 300,000-plus AdMob Apps to AdWords Adds new mobile ad targeting options
Facebook isn't the only company with mobile ad news this week. Two years after closing its $750 million acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob, Google is connecting the company's more than 1 million ...
HipSwap wants to be a Craigslist for the Pinterest set
Second-hand stuff has never looked so sexy. Thanks to a redesign rolling out Thursday, HipSwap, an online marketplace for local goods, is now like a Craigslist re-imagined for Fab and Pinterest fans:...
Samsung's ChatON messaging service comes to Windows Phone, now available on all mainstream platforms
Samsung has now touched all the bases with its ChatON messaging service after it added support for Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, making it available on all four of the smartphone industry's …
China proposes strengthening Internet guidelines
(Reuters) - China released proposed changes to its Internet law on Thursday that aim to further eliminate anonymity on the Web and expand control over the companies behind the country's boisterous mic...
Google hit with patent claim over Google Drive
The growing popularity of cloud technology is attracting not just users but patent lawsuits too. The latest example is a suit filed against Google that claims the company's Drive and Docs products vi...