Nexus Q Teardown
Did it come from outer space? Did it rise up from the depths of the lost city of Atlantis? How much of it was really made in the United States? When Google announced the Nexus Q at the I/O keynote ...
Apple Says It Has Fixed Server Bug That Led to Crashing Apps
Apple said late Thursday that it has resolved a glitch that was causing some apps downloaded from its online store to crash upon launch. — “We had a temporary issue that began yesterday with a serve...
Security Researchers Backtrack on Android Malware Claim
Internet security researchers said Thursday they may have been mistaken about claims that mobile devices powered by Google Inc.'s Android operating system were hacked and used to send spam emails. — ...
Microsoft confirms enthusiasts' fears: No more versions of Windows Home Server
Summary: Windows Home Server 2011 is the last version of Microsoft's home-server operating system, company officials have finally confirmed. — Follow @maryjofoley — After a year-plus of hints and ...
Amazon Said To Plan Smartphone To Vie With Apple
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is developing a smartphone that would vie with Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone and handheld devices that run Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android operating system, two people with knowledge ...
Nokia should fire Elop and the board should go too - Jean-Louis Gassée
Stephen Elop ought to be fired as the CEO of Nokia and the rest of the board should join him, according to Silicon Valley veteran Jean-Louis Gassée (pictured). — “I think that Elop will have to go …
Nexus 7, Google's New Tablet, Seriously Challenges the iPad
You can love Apple or you can hate Apple, but one thing's for sure: its favorite game is Lead the Industry. And the industry's favorite game is Follow the Leader. — Steve Jobs hated the mimicry.
Google Confirms Galaxy Nexus Sales Stopped in Apple-Samsung Case, Fix Coming Next Week
While Apple and Samsung's phones and tablets battle it out on store shelves, the companies (and Google) have been battling it out in the courtroom in ongoing patent disputes.
Wikileaks starts publishing two million ‘Syria Files’ emails
Julian Assange in England in December 2010. — (Credit: CNET, CBSNews.com: Screenshot by Jonathan Skillings) — Wikileaks, the highly controversial whistleblowing gruop, has begun publishing more th...
Motorola Atrix HD revealed with 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, ICS and Droid RAZR looks
The next Motorola Atrix phone has been revealed on the company's website as the Atrix HD. According to the listed specs, it features a 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, will ship with Android 4. Ice Cr...
Retailers Encourage Shoppers to Buy Online and Pick Up In-Store
As online shopping has surged, traditional retailers have lost millions in sales to so-called showrooming — when shoppers check out products in stores that they then buy from Web sites like Amazon.
iPad3.com domain quickly turned over to Apple's IP lawyers following complaint
The domain iPad3.com is now in the hands of Apple's IP lawyers at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. It appears the previous name's owner didn't even want to wait for an arbitration panel to issue the i...
Judge who shelved Apple trial says patent system out of sync
(Reuters) - The U.S. judge who tossed out one of the biggest court cases in Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) smartphone technology battle is questioning whether patents should cover software or most other industr...
Yahoo CEO Search in Final Stages, With Levinsohn and Kilar in Lead
According to sources close to the situation, the search for a new CEO for troubled Internet giant Yahoo is closing in on several key candidates in the mix, in what appears to be coming down to a conte...
Samsung's Galaxy powers record $5.9 billion profit
(Reuters) - Soaraway sales of the Galaxy smartphone drove record quarterly profit of $5.9 billion at Samsung Electronics, though the South Korean tech giant is sweating over how Europe's debt crisis i...
Cory Doctorow: Music: The Internet's Original Sin
From the July 2012 issue of Locus Magazine — In a recent Search Engine podcast, host Jesse Brown wondered about music's ongoing centrality to the debate over file-sharing and freedom. After all, th...
Index Shows iOS Programming Language Now In Top 3 As Mobile Development Booms
According to the TIOBE Index, Objective-C is now more popular than C++, showing proof that mobile development is surging ahead as we enter the post-PC era. — Objective-C is the object-oriented progr...
A Victory for the Internet
In a ground-breaking vote on an issue that affects all of us, the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday endorsed a resolution upholding the principle of freedom of expression and information...
Researchers Say iPhone Users Hit With App Store's First Ever Spam-Sending App
A screenshot from Find and Call's website. — Just as antivirus researchers congratulated Apple for keeping the iPhone free of nasty apps five full years after its release, spammers seem to have fina...
Google Revamps Its Workforce Education Programs
Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page has spent the past year trying to bring a renewed sense of urgency and focus to the search company, in what he calls putting “more wood behind fewer arrows.” Pl...
Get in line: one Apple store per 216 million Chinese
(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has more retail stores in Pennsylvania than in all of China - where it earns a fifth of its revenue - and a slow pace of expansion may cost the firm more than just sales...
Best Buy Tries On Apple's Sleek Look
RICHFIELD, Minn.—Best Buy Co. is testing a new turnaround strategy: making its cavernous electronics emporiums look more like Apple Inc.'s sleek retail outlets. — The heart of a test store near Best...
Apple Said To Pick AutoNavi To Offer IPhone Maps In China
AutoNavi Holdings Ltd. (AMAP), a Chinese maker of electronic navigation tools, was chosen by Apple Inc. to offer map services for users of future iPhones and iPads in China, according to two people wi...
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and RIM sign up to Telefonica mobile billing partnership
European mobile giant Telefonica is set to make it easier for its customers to purchase digital items and subscribe to services using their mobile devices following a new deal with Facebook, Google, M...
Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch
Last night, within minutes of Apple approving the Instapaper 4.2.3 update, I was deluged by support email and Twitter messages from customers saying that it crashed immediately on launch, even with a ...
Olympus announces Project Glass-style wearable display prototype
Just over a week after Google's spectacular demonstration of its Project Glass headset at Google I/O, Japanese camera maker Olympus is jumping back into the wearable computing game, announcing a new p...