Twitter's Succès De Scandale: Olympics Suspension Fiasco Drove Signups
There's no such thing as bad publicity. A source tells TechCrunch that mainstream news mentions of the temporary suspension of an NBC Olympics coverage tweeter / hater gave Twitter's signup rate a bo...
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. … In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Tw...
iPhone Caused “Crisis of Design” at Samsung (Memo)
At the end of Monday in week two of the Apple versus Samsung case, a damning internal Samsung email was admitted into evidence — an email containing charged language from JK Shin, Samsung's head of mo...
Exclusive: Microsoft's Windows 8 packaging revealed
Microsoft announced the finalization of its Windows 8 operating system last week with some gloriously crazy Start Screen improvements. The final copy may have leaked online already, but if you're wai...
Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone version
Apple obviously did away with Google Maps in iOS 6, but another of the web giant's biggest properties won't be available as a default option, either. The latest beta version of iOS 6 has removed …
Acer CEO warns Microsoft to ‘think twice’ about Surface
Microsoft knew it would be stepping on the toes of its partners when it announced plans to make the Surface tablet computer — competing with Windows 8 tablets from the major PC makers. And now we hav...
Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud
WASHINGTON — Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted “horrible problems” in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold. — Wozniak, 61, was the star turn at ...
Inside NASA's Curiosity: It's an Apple Airport Extreme... with wheels
Late last night, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity successfully navigated its way through Seven Minutes of Terror and touched down on the surface of the Red Planet, heralding a new age of extrat...
Sprint Quietly Cuts iPhone 4S Price to $149
Sprint over the weekend dropped the price of the iPhone 4S to $149 — a $50 price drop. — The move comes ahead of what is expected to be the introduction of a new iPhone as soon as next month. Apple...