After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets
Apple on Tuesday ordered its support staff to immediately stop processing AppleID password changes requested over the phone, following the identity hacking of Wired Reporter Mat Honan over the weekend...
The self-driving car logs more miles on new wheels
Technology is at its best when it makes people's lives better, and that's precisely what we're going for with our self-driving car project. We're using advanced computer science to try and make drivi...
Samsung's 2010 Report Says its Galaxy Would Be Better If it Were Just More Like the iPhone
As part of its case against Samsung, Apple has shown snippets of an internal Samsung document comparing the original Galaxy S phone with the iPhone. — On Tuesday, Apple managed to get the whole 132-...
Upcoming iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640 x 1136 iPhone display, shows possible next-generation device user-interface
Mockup of rumored next-generation iPhone design — With the next-generation iPhone's announcement and release approaching for next month, one of the most present rumors is a larger, nearly-four inch ...
The iPhone patent Steve Jobs particularly cared about - inertial scrolling
Steve Jobs seemingly had a special affinity for Apple's '381 patent, which covers intertial scrolling We're about a week into the Apple-Samsung trial, and so far the bulk of the testimony has centered...
Apple's ‘Genius’ Ads Disappear From the Olympics
1 of 3 — Have you noticed that Apple's much-debated “Genius” ads have disappeared from the Olympics? — Well, you're not imagining things. A rep for TBWA/Media/Arts Lab, Apple's ad agency, says th...
Only Windows Phone 8 will support in-app purchasing
Microsoft has revealed that its plans to support in-app purchasing on Windows Phone will be limited to its upcoming version 8 release. In MSDN documentation, the software maker advises developers tha...
The New Yorker Lands on the iPhone, With Help From Lena Dunham and Jon Hamm
Here's another way to crack the “big stack of old New Yorkers you don't have time to get to” problem: You can now read the magazine on your iPhone, via a new app. — If you've used the New Yorker's i...
Office 2013 RT for Windows RT tablets will ship as Preview, lack macros and other features
Microsoft is planning to remove certain features from its Office 2013 RT edition, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The software maker is planning to ship a Preview version …
The Internet Archive teams up with BitTorrent, starts seeding 1M torrents
The Internet Archive just embraced P2P in a big way: The site is making more than one million torrents of its books, movies, TV show episodes and music albums available for free download.
Verizon Wireless reveals $150 20GB shared data plan, and four others
The high-end plans are available, but are not posted on Verizon's Web site — Verizon Wireless Tuesday revealed that there are five additional data tiers over and above the six tiers announced with i...
Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook gets official: on sale August 21st for $1,399 and up
Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon has been a known entity since May, when the company gave us a look at the 14-inch, Ivy Bridge-packing Ultrabook. Up until now, though, the successor …
Craigslist's Challenger Could Be an App, or Several
A few days ago an incoming alert caught my eye. Someone had posted a public message through Highlight, an iPhone app that shows people who else is nearby whom they might want to meet. — The note si...
Who's That Woman in the Twitter Bot Profile?
They're sometimes called “bimbots”—the army of Twitter bots with pretty profile pictures. Who are the women pictured in those photos? This is the story of the quest to find out. — After weeks of t...
Do Not Track in the Windows 8 Setup Experience
With Windows 8's recent release to manufacturing, we know many people are interested in how customers will discover Do Not Track (DNT) in Internet Explorer 10. DNT will be enabled in the “Express Set...
Cell phone radiation limits under government scrutiny for the first time since 1996
Americans are getting pretty cozy with their cell phones. We're on them at work, at home, on the weekends, and even in bed; we're also getting our first phones at a younger age than in the past.
Study Shows Price The Top Consideration For Kindle Fire, Android Tablet Owners
Measurement firm comScore is launching a new tracking and metrics program for tablets. To publicize the new service comScore released some initial data, “based on a 3-month rolling sample of 6,000 US...
Craigslist reportedly removes listings from search engines, blocking 3Taps and PadMapper
Listings site Craigslist has reportedly asked all general search engines to stop indexing its postings, effectively obsolescing data provider 3Taps and sites and apps which use its API, including the ...
iOS 6 points to new 9-pin connector: is this the new, smaller dock port?
At this point, it seems highly likely that the next-generation of Apple's iOS devices will carry smaller dock connectors. That new hardware feature has been reported by multiple sources.
LinkedIn to Developers: We'll Give You the Clarity the Other Platforms Won't
In light of frustration with platform policy changes on other social media services like Twitter, LinkedIn today pushed out updated terms of service, a revamped developer-resources Web site and a more...
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping
The federal government may spy on Americans' communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that ...
SiriusXM Adds On Demand Option for Web, iOS
SiriusXM's new On Demand subscription option provides users with access to their favorite radio stations on their own schedule. — The company announced today that its On Demand option offers the abi...
Black Market Drug Site ‘Silk Road’ Booming: $22 Million In Annual Sales
In the year since Senator Joe Manchin called for the “audacious” drug-selling website Silk Road to be “shut down immediately,” the world's most high-profile underground pharmacy hasn't just survived.
Facebook Unveils First Non-Social Mobile Ad Unit, Allowing Developers To Buy Clicks To App Stores
Until now, every Facebook mobile ad had to be triggered by you or a friend's activity, but today Facebook begins testing a new non-social ad unit that lets developers buy mobile news feed ads …
Apple airs new iPad TV ad highlighting Twitter, FaceTime, Square, AirPlay, more
Today, Apple has begun airing a new iPad television commercial. The new ad is similar in style to Apple's other recent iPad commercials, highlighting applications and how they look on the newest iPad...
MetroPCS lights up Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services, starts selling LG Connect 4G
MetroPCS may not be grand in scale, but it's certainly not lacking for ambition. Just over a year after announcing its eventual transition to Voice over LTE, the carrier has officially launched its V...
Houston-born blog guru stays true to his roots
WordPress made Matt Mullenweg a multimillionaire — Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of the blogging software WordPress, keeps an apartment in Houston, his hometown, to get away from the East and W...
This Time, Apple's FaceTime Got Sued!
A Tawinese man recently filed a lawsuit against Apple for allegedly infringing his technology patent that he claimed is used on Apple's FaceTime. The Intermediate People's Court in Zhenjiang has conf...
Fluent, the email service that was tipped to kill Gmail, is shutting down on August 17
Six months after releasing its well-regarded beta, the Fluent email service is shutting down due to problems with fundraising, runways and scaling. — Built by three Australian ex-Googlers …
Kleiner's Bing Gordon Is In A Tough Spot All Of A Sudden
Amazon and Zynga just went to war with the launch of Amazon's first social game. — The companies share a board member: Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist Bing Gordon, the voluble and beloved former ...
Facebook now allows adult UK users to play games for real money - Gamesys first to App Center with ‘Bingo Friendzy’
UK-based online gambling holding Gamesys has launched a new Facebook app called ‘Bingo Friendzy’, the first to hit the social network's App Center that lets UK users aged 18 …
Apps Coming That Recommend TV Shows
Apps Developers Want Viewers to Suggest TV Shows to Their Friends — Social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have given television viewers a virtual water cooler to chitchat about their fav...
Cloud telephony startup Infratel lands $3M, adds ‘click-to-call’ to Facebook pages
Infratel, a Seattle startup that provides cloud-based telephony services to small businesses, has raised $3 million in startup financing. Investors in the round include Prostor Capital and Runa Capit...
Kno starts offering K-12 textbooks on tablets, scores industry-first deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Kno's tablet textbooks have only ever been available to the college crowd; the younger among us have typically had to get a comprehensive digital education from either the tablet maker's own solution ...
Google Ventures invests $8.2m in e-signature firm DocuSign, bringing Series D round to $55.7m in total
Electronic signature technology company DocuSign recently announced that it had raised $47.5 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures …
Microsoft launches new Windows Phone Dev Center: Cleaner, better reporting, PayPal support and more
Attempting to make it easier for developers to design, build and manage apps within its Windows Phone ecosystem, Microsoft has pushed live its new Windows Phone Dev Center …
“We're coming for you, bitches!” 500 Startups' Dave McClure takes over Mexican.VC
Mexican.VC, a startup accelerator based in Mexico City, announced today it is merging with 500 Startups to source and fund a growing number of promising Spanish-speaking startups.
Demonoid Operators Face Criminal Investigation in Mexico
Confirmation came out of Ukraine yesterday that not only had Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack, it had also been raided by the authorities. — In the middle of last week government investiga...