Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Will Ship in Q3 With Improved Display
With sales of the first-generation Kindle Fire petering out, Amazon is gearing up to launch its successor, a tablet that seeks to improve on the original while retaining a similar form factor.
late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)
most of the time I think of myself as a failure. — when I'm optimistic, I think maybe I'm just a late bloomer. — I know a lot of folks won't understand this perspective, but when I was growing up ...
Wireless Firms Are Flooded by Requests to Aid Surveillance
WASHINGTON — In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a daunting 1.3 million demands for subscriber data last year from law enforcement agencies s...
Major Twitter for iPhone update incoming: more interactive, enhanced notifications
iOS 6′s redesigned App Store has leaked a major forthcoming update to Twitter's official iPhone application in its update history section. Twitter, in recent months, has come under fire due to potent...
Samsung Said To Plan Windows RT Tablet For October Introduction
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the largest phone maker, will release a tablet that features Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows RT software when the operating system debuts, people with knowledge of t...
Apple Cracking Down On Sites Selling Access To iOS Betas
Last month, Andy Baio wrote a story for Wired detailing the world of selling access to Apple beta software to non-developers. Specifically, Baio's piece focused on sites that, for a price, allowed re...
RIM's BlackBerry App World Tops Three Billion Downloads
Some good news for Research In Motion amid the unceasing torrent of bad. BlackBerry App World, the company's answer to Apple's iTunes App Store and Google Play, has reached a milestone worth celebrat...
Nokia VP: Pureview will come to Lumia devices “very soon”, Sprint and Verizon will get Lumias
Neowin spoke to Nokia's Richard Kerris, VP of Worldwide Developer Relations who revealed a few interesting titbits. — According to Kerris “it wont be long” before we see Nokia Lumias on Sprint …
Philip Rosedale: The Media Is Wrong, SecondLife Didn't Fail
Last night I spoke at an event put on by a site called IdeaMensch. They're doing a road trip, where the team is traveling city by city, holding events by and for entrepreneurs. I talked about why I ...
Microsoft to launch Bing Fund angel investment incubator
For the past few weeks, there've been some tweets showing up in my timeline from something called the Bing Fund. ZDNet (and Techie-Buzz) blogger Manan Kakkar has noticed these, too. The tweets lead ...
It Never Gets Better
Why you should never buy a mediocre piece of technology expecting that it'll be more amazing tomorrow than it is today. — Source: dahlstroms — There's an update waiting for you. For your apps, fo...
What's behind the price signaling between Verizon and AT&T?
The two largest mobile service providers, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, are engaging in some serious price signaling. And you don't have to take my word for it, because the two leaders are not ...