Xbox Surface? More rumors ahead of today's reveal
Alleged spec sheets mentioning a new Xbox controller have surfaced, just ahead of a ‘big’ mystery Microsoft announcement in Los Angeles. Yes, I said I was done guessing what Microsoft might announce ...
Microsoft Announces Surface: New Family of PCs for Windows
Microsoft-made hardware to be available starting with release of Windows 8 and Windows RT. — Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Window...
Awesome News - Facebook Acquires Face.com
Facebook has acquired Face.com! Our mission is and has always been to find new and exciting ways to make face recognition a fun, engaging part of people's lives, and incorporate remarkable technology...
With 16 petaflops and 1.6M cores, DOE supercomputer is world's fastest
Giant cluster built to test nuclear weapons stockpile breaks HPC speed record. — An IBM technician loads CPUs into Sequoia, the world's fastest supercomputer. — Lawrence Livermore National Laborat...
Previously jailbreak only, Apple allows iOS Display Recorder app into App Store
The ability to record your iOS display was a functionality previously limited to a Cydia app for jailbroken iPhone users that is called “Display Recorder.” As noted by JBN, Apple has allowed an app o...
Sonos Raises $135 Million From KKR, Redpoint, Elevation
Wireless music systems maker Sonos has a round of primary and secondary financing of $135 million, a figure that is more than double what it has previously raised in total, according to sources close ...
Netflix Quietly Smothers 3rd Party App Ecosystem
On Friday afternoon, Netflix published a blog post announcing a breaking change to their API, and dedicated a small paragraph to the fact that their API terms of use had been updated. On a technical ...
The MacBook Pro Strikes Back (With Retina Power)
It was nearly two years ago that I said goodbye to my MacBook Pro. I loved the device, but the new MacBook Air was that good. My Pro — which was only six months old at the time! — seemed like total ...
Microsoft May Be Closer Than It Appears in Android's Rearview Mirror
This week, wedged between Apple's WWDC and Google I/O is Microsoft's Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 20. Additionally, Microsoft is holding a last-minute press conference tha...
Introducing Thimble: webmaking made easy
Today we are proud to launch a new Mozilla Webmaker app to the world. Meet Thimble, the new tool that makes it incredibly simple for anyone to create and share their own web pages and other projects ...
Apple, Google Push Deeper Into Mobile Software; Towering Over Nokia, Research In Motion
Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have brought mobile giants Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. to their knees and captured more than 80% of the world's smartphone market. Now they are going after the ...
Ex-AT&T employee admits leaking Apple, RIM info
(Reuters) - A former AT&T (T.N) employee admitted on Monday to sharing company secrets such as sales numbers for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone to traders who illegally bought shares on the information. ...
Ikea TV goes on sale in Europe, comes with DVR add-on
Ikea's Uppleva TV is arriving in select European Ikea stores and the company just shared some more technical data about the device, revealing that it will also be able to record programming on separat...
Facebook Readying Location-Based Mobile Ad Product
Facebook Inc. (FB), owner the world's largest social network, says it's working on a location-based mobile-advertising product that will allow companies to target users with real-time data showing the...
Verzion intros FiOS Quantum, officially priced up to 300Mbps
What's faster than FiOS internet service? FiOS Quantum evidently, as Verizon's latest high-speed internet service gets an official name and pricing. Effectively doubling every tier — except the entr...
Public Transit in iOS 6
By now it is public knowledge that there will be no in-house replacement for routing via public means of transport in iOS 6. Indeed if you hold an iOS 6 phone (that somebody maybe has left in a bar) ...
Linus Torvalds: ‘f**k you, Nvidia’ for not supporting Linux
Linus Torvalds isn't someone you'd accuse of excessive diplomacy and his answer to a question about Nvidia's lack of support for Linux with its Optimus technology has been far from compromising.
Facebook Acquires Facial Recognition Technology Company Face.com For Nearly $60 Million
After rumors of a deal have swirled for weeks, Facebook has officially acquired facial recognition technology company Face.com. — It's a complete acquisition, which means both talent and technology ...
Exclusive: Testing Sprint's New 4G LTE Network
Sprint will be switching on its 4G LTE network soon. We got an exclusive first glimpse as part of our Fastest Mobile Networks project. — Sprint's 3G network is painfully slow. Its old 4G WiMAX net...
Sharp partners with design agency frog to launch Feel UX, another unique Android user interface
Sharp has become the latest in a long line of Android smartphone makers to announce that it is to build a customized user interface for the platform, partnering with design agency ‘frog’ to launch “Fe...
Nokia 808 PureView announced for US, available soon through Amazon at $699
Color us surprised — or whatever the antonym of that word may be — but Nokia has announced the availability of its 41-megapixel 808 PureView smartphone for the United States, which will be distributed...
Facebook's Social Olympic Ambition, Explore London 2012: A Dedicated Athlete Portal, But No Ads
A lot of Londoners (me included) haven't been able to get tickets to the London Olympics this summer. But we'll all get something else, Facebook announced today.
Where LinkedIn is headed next
CEO Jeff Weiner discussed the volatility of the stock's first year, as well as the company's plans for future growth. … ADAM LASHINSKY: Okay, so extremely exciting time here a year after your IPO. I...
Apple and Liquidmetal Technologies Extend Intellectual Property Agreement Until 2014
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing made today, Liquidmetal Technologies announced that it has extended its agreement with Apple to effectively license its ongoing intellectual property dev...
Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly
With Facebook engineers, it appears the high-performance database apple doesn't far fall from the tree. On Monday, former Facebookers Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov (who also spent six years as a...
HTC: Wifi glitch so far only seen in Tegra 3 One X
We've just gotten some more information regarding the Wifi issues some HTC One X owners have been experiencing, and which the manufacturer acknowledged this morning. — An HTC spokesman tells us that...
It's Official: Michael Barrett Talks About New Job as Yahoo Ad Czar
Yahoo has confirmed that it has hired Google ad exec Michael Barrett as its new chief of revenue. — As I reported earlier, Barrett will be in charge of advertising revenue and operations worldwide a...
The future of news: Mobile, video, data — and crowdsourced
and crowdsourced — The Knight Foundation, a non-profit entity that is one of the biggest funders of journalism and media-related projects in the United States, announced the winners of the first roun...
OPA: iOS And Android Level In U.S. Tablet Market, Penetration 47% By 2013, $2.6B Spent On Apps In 2012
Apple has captured mindshare in the tablet market with its iPad, but when it comes to actual usage, in the U.S. it is actually neck-and-neck with its chief rival, Android …
MPAA / RIAA Ponder Suing Persistent BitTorrent Pirates
Later this year, the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement all major U.S. Internet providers struck with the MPAA and RIAA. — The parties ...
Don't Look Now, But Facebook's Stock Is Up 20% In 2 Weeks!
Remember two weeks ago, when Facebook's stock had crashed all the way to ~$25? — Yes, back then, everyone was absolutely certain that it was going to, say, $18, and they were telling everyone who wo...
App Developers Who Are Too Young to Drive
Paul Dunahoo went on a business trip to San Francisco last week, where he attended technical sessions at Apple Inc.'s developer conference, networked with other programmers and received feedback from ...
Should we fear mind-reading future tech?
Editor's note: Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and professional skeptic. He is the author of “The Cult of the Amateur,” and “Digital Vertigo.” Follow @ajkeen on Twitter. — (CNN) — I...
Barnes & Noble Is NOT A Part Of Today's Big Microsoft Event
Microsoft will not be announcing a tablet made by Barnes & Noble today, despite a report to the contrary. — Dow Jones reports that the speculation that Barnes & Noble is a part of today's announceme...
Intel Invokes Phi to Reach Exascale Computing by 2018
Intel on Monday introduced a high-performance chip family called Xeon Phi, which provides a stepping stone for the company to reach the milestone of creating an exaflop computer by 2018. — A chip co...
Morgan Stanley Was ‘Driver’ on Facebook's Wild IPO Ride
In snaring the most coveted investment-banking assignment of the year, Morgan Stanley's Michael Grimes insisted to a senior Facebook Inc. executive that he be the “single driver” of the company's init...
Celestica, A Canadian Manufacturing Contract Company, Parts Ways With RIM
Canada-based Celestica announced plans today to “wind down” manufacturing services for Research in Motion over the next three to six months. More details will come next month during Celestica's secon...
Samsung Makes Galaxy S III and Other Android Devices Enterprise-Ready
One of the big things that IT departments at big companies are coping with these days is the BYOD — bring your own device -trend. It refers to the tendency of people to take their personally owned mo...
Bizarre security vulnerability found in every x86-64 Intel processor
Given how long 64-bit processors have been on the market, it's a bit surprising to see a vulnerability that takes advantage of AMD's x86-64 instruction set on Intel processors surface this late in the...
Arvind Narayanan Isn't Anonymous, and Neither Are You
World's Most Wired — Arvind Narayanan — Arvind Narayanan in his tiny office at Stanford University, where he has been working on a post-doc. The chair on the desktop at left serves as a makeshift...
Mobile's newest star Songza is red hot with 1.15 Million iOS downloads in 10 days
In 2008, when Aza Raskin and his co-founders decided to call it quits on Humanoid and its best known product, Songza, they got themselves gigs at Mozilla, and they quietly sold the assets of the servi...
Does Auto Layout In iOS 6 Mean A Larger iPhone Screen Is Coming?
The WWDC keynote came and went with nary a mention of a new iPhone, but that didn't stop people from ruminating about Apple's newest mobile juggernaut. Apple's brass spent much of their time on-stage...
Microsoft Sets Event For Milk Studios In Hollywood
Microsoft has disclosed that today's mysterious product launch event scheduled for Los Angeles this afternoon will be held at Milk Studios in Hollywood. — Doos open at 3:30 p.m.; I would imagine the...