Apple responds to EPEAT concerns
Apple on Tuesday responded to concerns that it asked to have its products removed from EPEAT, the U.S. government's list of environmentally friendly products. — “Apple takes a comprehensive approach...
Expansive experiences in latest mobile apps for iPhone, Android
Today you can download new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates to bring you closer to everything you care about. — Expand Tweets
Rumor: Next-gen iPhone, ‘iPad mini’ engineering samples pictured
A pair of reports on Tuesday allege to show an “engineering samples” of Apple's rumored next-generation iPhone and smaller 7-inch iPad, the latter being one of the first mock-ups to hit the web.
Google+ app for iPad available now in the App Store
In May, we redesigned the Google+ experience for iPhone, adding full bleed photos that fall into place and bold visual elements that bring your stream to life. Today, we're introducing new features f...
Ballmer: “Surface Is Just a Design Point”
By designing and building the Surface tablet itself, Microsoft is not blowing off its longtime PC manufacturing partners. And PC makers shouldn't take it that way. Surface is a reference design mean...
Protecting user files with File History
File History is a backup application that continuously protects your personal files stored in Libraries, Desktop, Favorites, and Contacts folders. It periodically (by default every hour) scans the fi...
Next Issue brings its all-you-can-read magazine store to the iPad, plans start at $10 a month
The last time we heard about Next Issue, the all-you-can-read magazine store was launching on Android, with an iOS version said to be coming “soon.” Three months later, the startup's made good on its...
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean begins rolling out to the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus
We knew it was just a matter of time, and now Google has announced that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has begun rolling out to the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus. For owners of the phone, the new OS will be appearing o...
Facebook connects users to free antivirus software
Here is a screenshot of the prompt Facebook users will get when they indicate that their computer may have an infection. — Facebook is now directing users who think their computer might be infected ...
Let's Try to Think This iPad Mini Thing All the Way Through
We're Talking About a Smaller iPad, Not a Bigger iPod Touch — I've seen a fair bit of speculation that, if Apple produces a 7-inch iOS device, then maybe it would be a bigger iPod Touch, not a small...
Samsung to offer hacker-friendly ‘developer edition’ Galaxy S III on Verizon
Want a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III without all the huffing and puffing that comes a long with encrypted bootloaders? The manufacture has you covered, as it will offer a “developer edition” Verizon G...
Sprint's Galaxy S III update removes local search abilities
Yesterday we heard that the Sprint Galaxy S III was in the midst of getting a small “security” update over-the-air, but with little detail of what exactly was changed. The jury is still out about any...
Formspring suffers security breach - 420k password hashes leaked, all passwords reset [UPDATE]
Formspring, used by many for the purposes of answering questions, has suffered a massive security breach with 420,000 password hashes posted on a security fourm.
TED Books launches iOS store, with subscriptions
Conference organization TED already publishes ebooks. Now it is selling them through a new app, Ted Books for iOS. Readers can also buy subscriptions. — TED's book apps is built on the platform de...
Apple to return to vertical, tall iPod nano design, add home button?
Macotakara claims that Apple is gearing up to launch a redesigned iPod nano later this year. This new iPod nano will return to the device's old horizontal design, but will be 3/4 the height of the fi...
Dropbox offers pro users twice the space as competition heats up
This story was corrected at 11:10 a.m. with the correct pricing for Box.net's services. — Dropbox pro subscribers can now get excited about twice as much storage space on their accounts for no addit...
Eric Schmidt: The Great Firewall of China will fall
Technology and information penetration in China will eventually force the Great Firewall of China to crumble and even lead to the political opening of the Chinese system, according to Google Chairman ...
Obama clarifies plan to keep the internet running during emergencies in executive order
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that changes the way the US deals with telecommunications in the event of an emergency. “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparednes...
Ouya console meets $950,000 Kickstarter funding goal in 8 hours
The makers of Ouya, the low-cost video game console based on Google's Android OS and designed by Yves Behar, have already surpassed their $950,000 fundraising goal on Kickstarter. The project, a $99 ...
Microsoft plans to sell ‘a few million’ Surface PCs in the coming year
Summary: With Surface and now Perceptive Pixel, is Microsoft gearing up for total hardware domination? — Follow @maryjofoley — Since Microsoft unveiled its first Microsoft-branded PCs, the Microso...
Congress to discuss sales bans if key patents infringed
(Reuters) - The Congress is considering whether companies that hold patents essential to a standard, such as a digital movie format, should be forbidden from asking that infringing products be banned ...
Bitly Raises $15M Led by Khosla Ventures
Bitly, the link-shortening and tracking service, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures. — The round is aimed to help Bitly hire and grow. “We make many mi...
Exclusive: Darpa Gets a New Boss, and Solyndra Is in Her Past
New Darpa director Arati Prabhakar. Photo courtesy of SRI International — Until last year, Arati Prabhakar worked for the venture capitalists who backed Solyndra, the green-tech firm that imploded ...
Google, FTC Near Settlement on Privacy
Google Inc. is close to a deal to pay $22.5 million to settle charges related to its surreptitious bypassing of the privacy settings of millions of Apple Inc. users, according to officials briefed on ...
A Fight in Silicon Valley: Founders Push for Control
There's a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. At stake: Power itself. — Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up inve...
FreedomPop raises $7.5M to free you from your carrier shackles (exclusive)
The seemingly mythical FreedomPop, which aims to disrupt the mobile broadband landscape by offering a freemium 4G service, is one step closer to reality. The company has raised $7.5 million in a firs...
Exclusive: Microsoft's Ballmer Throws Down Gauntlet Against Apple
Declaring that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) and its partners had in the past “ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation” to Apple (NSDQ:AAPL), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CRN i...
RIM Said To Sell Jet To Help Save $1 Billion
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), which has lost 95 percent of its market value since 2008, is selling one of its two business jets under a plan to save $1 billion in operating costs, two people with kn...
Apple launches new iPad in China on July 20th
Apple is about to complete an important part of the puzzle for the new iPad's world rollout: it just confirmed that its Retina display-packing tablet will reach mainland China on July 20th. The compa...
Steve Wozniak Shares His Thoughts On Google Glass And Microsoft's Surface Tablet
Steve Wozniak recently spoke at the Entel Summit in Chile, and as usual, expressed his thoughts on emerging technology. Wozniak offered his opinion on Google Glass, Microsoft's Surface tablet, and ev...
Google Nexus Q hacked to run launcher, apps, Netflix, and more
While Google's Nexus Q is an undeniably attractive piece of hardware, we found the device to be lacking in overall functionality. Enterprising developers are already on the case, however, with the la...
Salesforce.com suffers worldwide disruption after power outage
Summary: Salesforce.com has suffered a series of outages that left many unable to use the CRM service. Even the service status page was down for a while. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhittaker
Apple's $74B overseas cash hoard leads all U.S. tech companies
A report released on Monday from investment bank Moody's revealed that Apple leads a list of technology U.S. companies holding overseas cash with some $74 billion, up from $64 billion in December and ...
Paydiant Gets $12M More To Build Out Its White-Label Mobile Payments API
Paydiant, one of the more recent entrants in mobile payments, has closed a $12 million round of funding that it plans to use to build out its white-label, API-based product for banks and merchants to ...
A Reality Series Intrudes on Silicon Valley, and Finds It Cringing
SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley is finally getting the treatment once reserved for rowdy housewives and excitable chefs: its own Bravo reality series. But the tech world is not quite ready for its clo...
BlackBerry Curve 9310 makes a straight line to Verizon, July 12th
RIM's BlackBerry Curve 9310 hasn't exactly been shy. It's already made a cameo over at the FCC and got some Boost Mobile face time, and now the QWERTY keyboard-packing smartphone will be hitting Veri...
Noise Free says Apple stole its technology, sues to stop patent claim
A Silicon Valley firm called Noise Free says it showed Apple its secret noise cancellation technology in a series of meetings but that Apple then turned around and used the technology without permissi...
Nokia Bridge: Nokia's Incubator Gives Departing Employees €25k And More To Pursue Ideas That Nokia Has Not
Nokia may still be fighting some pretty major fires on its burning platform, but it's also building some bridges — namely the Nokia Bridge incubator program …
Readability for iOS 1.1 improves article discovery, UI, and performance
Readability has given its iOS reading app its most significant update yet, taking the application to version 1.1. The update brings with it two new article discovery methods: first is Top Reads …
Ukrainian Students Win Microsoft's Imagine Cup With Their Sign Language-To-Speech Translation Gloves
During an awards ceremony in Sydney today, Ukraine's team quadSquad just won this year's Microsoft Imagine Cup student technology competition (and $25,000) thanks to its gloves that can translate sign...
One-bit Internet: The iPad is/isn't a content creation device
In the conclusion to my Retina MacBook repairability post, I wrote: “on the Internet, it often seems that everything must be compressed to a one-bit image: black or white, triumph or catastrophe, the ...
Should (And Will) Kleiner Perkins Settle Its Gender Discrimination Fight?
High-profile venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers faces off in San Francisco court later today against its partner Ellen Pao in what will be the first public face-off in one of the most close...
NBC and Facebook to Announce Olympics Partnership
Users of Facebook, later this summer, will be reminded about NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games in London. And viewers of NBC's coverage, at the same time, will be nudged to talk about the Games on ...