Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start
Thanks to its easy download and low price, Apple's Mountain Lion appears on pace to be one of the most quickly adopted operating systems in history. — After just its first 48 hours on the market, Ap...
Apple Buys Samsung's Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M
Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mo...
Apple Officials Said to Consider Stake in Twitter
Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter. — Wh...
Google: we failed to delete all Streetview data
‘Human error’ prevented Google from deleting all the data it collected from Streetview snooping, the search giant has admitted. — Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commiss...
UK Information Commissioner Slams Google For Failure To Provide Street View Data
Google has been in an ongoing war of words with The UK's Information Commissioner. If you remember, Google's street cars captured all sorts of information other than just pictures, like WiFi nodes an...
What Does Skype's Architecture Do?
In the last few days we have seen reports in the media we believe are inaccurate and could mislead the Skype community about our approach to user security and privacy. I want to clear this up. — At...
Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak's Patents
Battle lines are forming in Eastman Kodak Co.'s patent sale ahead of Monday's initial bid deadline. — At least two groups are expected to bid on Kodak's trove of 1,100 patents, with a bevy of techno...
Apple Working on Advanced Display for Future Video Glasses
Apple has been toying with a heads-up display or video glasses since 2006 and they've already been granted a patent for their invention. Then earlier this month Apple's video glasses project won a su...
RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping
In April, one of the RIAA's key employees informed a group of music industry insiders about the upcoming six-strikes anti-piracy scheme in the U.S. TorrentFreak received a copy of the presentation she...
Tech Firms Battle to Keep Secrets as Apple vs. Samsung Nears Trial
While the primary battle next week in a San Jose courtroom will be between Samsung and Apple, a secondary skirmish is also taking place. — Both Apple and Samsung — along with a variety of other tech...
Google+ traffic soars: 66 percent increase in nine months
Traffic analytics site ComScore has revealed a large increase in visits to Google+. According to ComScore, the number of unique visitors to the social network has increased by 66 percent over the las...
Samsung, Apple Even At Odds Over Where they Will Sit at Trial
How deep do the disputes go between Apple and Samsung? — Well, the latest motion from Samsung concerns where each party will sit during the trial and how each will refer to the other. — Samsung ta...
Samsung's Q2 smartphone shipments nearly twice those of Apple, say research firms
The smartphone market grew 32 percent year-over-year in the quarter to reach 146 million units, said Strategy Analytics — Samsung shipped nearly twice the number of smartphones as Apple during the s...
Multiple Law Firms Are Now Investigating Zynga For Possible Stock Shenanigans
Bad news just got worse for the makers of FarmVille. It looks like a whole lot of lawyers are about to pounce on one of gaming's biggest companies. — Following news that Zynga insiders sold large a...
OUYA secures OnLive partnership, teases controller design as it passes $5.5M on Kickstarter
OUYA, the wildly successful Kickstarter project that recently passed $5.5M in funding, has just announced a partnership with cloud gaming service OnLive, which delivers popular gaming titles on-demand...
OAuth 2.0 leader resigns, says standard is ‘bad’
The standard grew too far away from its roots as a simple Web authentication technology, author Eran Hammer-Lahav says, and now is insecure and overly broad. — OAuth 2.0 author Eran Hammer-Lahav has...
Apple U.S. margins for iPad roughly half of iPhone: court filing
(Reuters) - Apple Inc earned gross margins of 49 to 58 percent for U.S. iPhone sales between April 2010 and the end of March 2012, while gross margins on the iPad were much lower during much of that p...
Senate amendment would allow Facebook users to share Netflix videos
A proposed amendment to a Senate cybersecurity bill would allow Facebook users to opt-in to automatically share which videos they have watched on Netflix. — The Senate could vote on the amendment, f...
Far from Silicon Valley, tech industry finds an oracle
(Reuters) - Anand Shimpi is one of the most influential tech industry figures you've never heard of. — From his start as a teenager building PCs for students and faculty at a college in his hometown...
Pinwheel Becomes Findery After Court Injunction
What a difference a single letter can make. — Two start-ups have been caught in a legal battle over the name Pinweel and Pinwheel since late February. The subtle difference: the letter “h.” — Pin...
MetaWatch introduces Strata smartwatch on Kickstarter: ‘iOS 6 made it possible’
That changes with Strata, which MetaWatch is introducing today on Kickstarter. “We've been very, very reluctant since we officially became MetaWatch of entering the market until we felt like there wa...
Bitly is working on an “Internet attention ranking engine” called Realtime
Bitly, the company that basically ushered the world into short links on sites like Twitter, is playing around with a new service, launching it under its “Bitly Labs” umbrella. — It's called Realtime...
VeriFone CEO on Square's Latest Funding Round? ‘Pets.com’
Square is close to raising $200 million, according to reports, for an implied valuation of $3.25 billion — nearly as much as its well-entrenched point of sale competitor VeriFone, which is currently w...
Brightcove revenue jumps by 41 percent; buys Zencoder
Summary: Second-quarter results look strong as did the first, but an acquisition could spell further success for the Boston-based cloud video platform provider. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhit...