Amazon Testing a Smartphone
TAIPEI—Amazon.com Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a smartphone, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting that the Internet retail giant, which sells the Kindle Fire...
Crossdressing, Compression and a Collider: The First Photo on the Web
The first photographic image ever uploaded to the Web was a Photoshop disaster. It was created to sell something, and featured attractive women in a come-hither pose. — In short, photo-uploading wa...
I Want It Today — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail.
How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — Amazon has long enjoyed an unbe...
Google Adds 20 Museums To Indoor Google Maps, Says More On The Way
Following the debut of indoor maps in Google Maps back in November, Google announced today that it's adding the indoor maps for twenty U.S. museums to its Maps app on Android. The museums added inclu...
Microsoft kills more code-signing certs to stop Flame-like attacks
Microsoft has revoked more than two dozen digital certificates used to prove its wares are genuine after discovering some of them could be subject to the same types of attacks orchestrated by the desi...
Penny Arcade's Kickstarter project aims to dump site ads
Penny Arcade without the banner ad. — Everybody's doing Kickstarter, so why not Gabe and Tycho, too? — That's the news today from Penny Arcade, the Seattle-based media and conference company that ...
In mobile design, failure is inevitable, says Path's Dave Morin
Dave Morin, the chief executive of the private mobile social network app Path, was onstage at MobileBeat 2012 this morning with Michael Copeland, the senior editor of Wired. And Morin, true to form, ...
DNSChanger Post-Mortem: What Did We Learn?
The DNS Changer Working Group took its DNS servers offline earlier today, and the world didn't end. Isn't that great? — As PCMag.com reported earlier today, many of the Internet Service Providers c...
LinkedIn Is Gearing Up For A Redesign: Bigger Pictures, Anchored Menu (And A Life Less Tweeted)
LinkedIn these days may be the social network that is used most by those looking for a new job (and not the place to read tweets), but the company has long wanted to be seen as the place for a whole l...
Announcing Amazon GameCircle - A New Gaming Experience for Kindle Fire
Announcing Amazon GameCircle, a new set of services designed to make it easier for you to create more engaging gaming experiences and grow your business on Kindle Fire. — GameCircle will make achiev...
Twitter's Pitch Deck for Big Advertisers (Slides)
Twitter's ad business is looking less like an experiment and more like a real business, one that could generate $1 billion a year in the not-too-distant future. — If Twitter ads really take off, it ...
Google's Nexus 7 Costs $152 To Make, IHS iSuppli Teardown Finds
Google's Nexus 7 tablet may be all about an attempt to compete with Apple's incredibly popular iPad, but when you crack it open it sure looks an awful lot like Amazon's Kindle Fire inside. — That's ...
Confirmed: Mountain Lion sends some 64-bit Macs gently into that good night
Mountain Lion won't support all 64-bit Macs when it ships in late July. — Apple, Inc. — Apple has now confirmed via its Mountain Lion upgrade page that previously published limitations on some 64-...
Tweetbot for Mac
It's finally here! (sort of) — Tweetbot for Mac is finally available! However it may not be quite as you had hoped. Developing for the Mac is no easy task, especially a full-featured Twitter clien...
Apple corporate recruiting video tours you through Apple HQ, tells interesting stories
Earlier this year, Apple uploaded an interesting corporate employee recruiting video. It might just be the most in-depth tour of Apple's Cupertino headquarters that we have ever seen on a public foru...
Facebook wants to be your online bank
The social media giant is quietly supporting new services for banks that want to engage socially with their customers: The decidedly unsocial business of online banking. — FORTUNE — Someday soon, Fa...
Starbucks launches mobile payments on Android in Canada and UK
Starbucks today announced a redesigned Android app that will enable users in Canada and the UK to pay for drinks straight from their phones by showing cashiers an onscreen barcode. The feature has th...
EU proposes changes to music licensing rules: iTunes, others to benefit
Summary: If you've ever found that iTunes or another premium content service is missing your favourite music album, that could change with the easing of EU licensing rules. — Zack Whittaker — Foll...
Judge Rejects Key Universal Music Argument In Legal Fight With Grooveshark
Two and a half years ago, Universal Music (UMG) sued Grooveshark (or, really, its parent company Escape Media). The case has had a few twists and turns since then, but the judge has issued a ruling (...
Microsoft urges death of Windows gadgets as researchers plan disclosures
Just two weeks before researchers are to disclose bugs in Windows “gadgets” at Black Hat, Microsoft acknowledged unspecified security vulnerabilities in the small pieces of software supported by Vista...
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...
More malware found hosted in Google's official Android market
Security researchers have found more malware hosted in Google's Android marketplace, the Google Play Store, a discovery that once again demonstrates the limitations of a recently deployed scanning ser...
Google Ventures Leads $5M Investment In Virtual Currency Startup Pocket Change
Pocket Change, a startup offering a virtual currency platform for Android games, has raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding. — Creating a currency platform that works across Android games ...
Russian parliament approves ‘web censorship’ bill
MOSCOW — The Russian parliament on Wednesday voted to approve a contentious bill that activists fear will introduce Internet censorship by blacklisting sites deemed as undesirable. In a further contr...
Symantec Gives Cloud Backup A Boost, Goes In On Backupify's $9 Million Series C
Backupify, the startup providing backup, search and restore solutions for online services like Google Apps, Salesforce, Facebook and Twitter, is announcing today that it's secured $9 million in Series...
Microsoft to reach 44 retail store total by mid-2013
Summary: Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told Worldwide Partner Conference attendees more retail stores are coming, including two outside the U.S., in fiscal 2013. — Follow @maryjofol...
Verizon Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S 4G added to Android Open Source Project, ‘no plans’ to add Sprint Galaxy Nexus
After announcing that Android 4.1 had been submitted to the Android Open Source Project, Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru responded to the inevitable flood of questions that followed with a few more detai...
AdRoll nabs $15M from Foundation, Accel, & Merus to get you clicking more ads
Online ad retargeting startup AdRoll has raised $15 million in its second-round of funding. It plans to expand the company and improving its technology, which allows companies to serve more relevant ...