A new modern SkyDrive.com, updated apps, and Outlook.com at 10 million users
Verizon Deal Nears Regulatory Approval
WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are preparing to clear Verizon Wireless's $3.9 billion deal to acquire airwaves from several cable companies including Comcast Corp., according to people close to the neg...
Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home robbed by clueless thief
The late Apple co-founder's home was burglarized by an alleged thief who didn't even seem to know whose home he was robbing. — The late Steve Jobs — The Palo Alto home of the late Steve Jobs was r...
Bad News For Bieber? Klout Unveils Redesign And A Scoring System That Looks At Real World Influence
Klout, the site that aims to measure your online influence, has made some big changes to its scoring system, and it has a new look to match the new algorithm.
Flash for Android dies tomorrow, long live the ‘full web experience’
In November of last year, Adobe made a surprising about-face on its popular Flash plugin, announcing that it would stop development of Flash for mobile devices. Tomorrow, Adobe will disable new insta...
Improving Google Patents with European Patent Office patents and the Prior Art Finder
At Google, we're constantly trying to make important collections of information more useful to the world. Since 2006, we've let people discover, search, and read United States patents online.
Surfthechannel owner sentenced to four years over piracy
Anton Vickerman, whose surfthechannel.com had 400,000 users a day, sentenced on two counts of conspiracy to defraud — A 38-year-old Briton who made £35,000 a month through a website that linked to p...
Is This T-mobile's First Windows Phone 8 Smartphone? With LTE?
Windows Phone fans, now would be a really great time to pay attention as believe we've discovered T-Mobile's first Windows Phone 8 device — with LTE. That's right, your eyes are not deceiving you as ...
Salesforce.com confirms it has completed the acquisition of Buddy Media
Salesforce.com has confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Buddy Media more than two months after the enterprise software giant first revealed that a $689 million deal to buy the social med...
Facebook Says It Now Has 235M Monthly Gamers, App Center Hits 150M Monthly Visitors
Facebook's push for more engagement on its platform, to drive advertising and other monetization efforts (and to counterbalance that drooping stock price), is showing some gains, according to updated ...
Gartner: Global Mobile Sales Down 2%, Smartphones Surge 43%, Apple Stalls As Fans Hold Out For New iPhone
Gartner is the latest of the big analyst houses to release its numbers for smartphone and overall mobile sales in Q2. The picture it paints is one of a market that has, effectively …
Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet
It's long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. And even if you do read them, many TOS are so ridden with legalese that you practically need to be a law...
YouTube's new app for the PlayStation 3 rolling out, allows remote control from smartphones
While YouTube has always enjoyed support on Sony's PlayStation 3 thanks to the console's Flash-enabled browser and even offered a YouTube XL layout for connected devices, now it's rolling out a new ap...
Pixel Perfect
I've spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the...
Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload
A string pair from the Gauss malware. Image courtesy of Kaspersky Lab — Researchers at Kaspersky Lab in Russia are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to...
With the Surface Tablet, Fist-Swinging Microsoft Jumps Back Into the Ring
Illustration: Sébastien Thibault — Microsoft's June unveiling of the remarkable Surface tablet came almost exactly a year after a much more important milestone. In May 2011, the nine years of legal...
Telenav's Scout gives iOS users offline navigation in exchange for ten bucks
We know that iOS 6 will bless iPhone users with some in-house-made mapping, but that hasn't stopped Telenav from bettering its own Scout navigation offering for Apple's favorite handsets.
Yammer Gets HootSuite Integration, A New “Inbox” and Its Own Design Improvements Independent of Microsoft
Yammer's first new release under the Microsoft umbrella has nothing to do with Microsoft. It's not about integrating with Sharepoint or Microsoft Dynamics.
Pebble team posts UI preview, provides an early look at how you'll interact with the E-Paper Watch
Sadly, Pebble won't be making its way to backers by its original September estimate, but the design team wants you to know that it's hard at work, traveling the world to source components …
UK competition watchdog gives the green light to Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram
Nearly two months after it said it had launched a probe into Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of popular photo-sharing service Instagram, the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) …
Building apps for Facebook: A dance with the devil
Facebook has created a booming app economy that's made plenty of developers rich. It's also forcing a lot of them to lose sleep. — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — Dalton Caldwell caused a stir rec...
iPad mini will look like a large iPod touch with smaller side bezels [Gallery]
Nexus 7 vs. iPad Mini mockup made from Sizeall comparisons — Over the past few weeks we've gotten a number of tips from sources we have reason to believe have knowledge of Apple's plans on the upcom...
Welcome to Medium
We're rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch. This is a preview. Compared to 1999, the Internet has a come a long way. It has gone from theoretically to actually central to ...
Toshiba Cancels Windows RT Devices on Delay in Getting Parts
Toshiba Corp. (6502) canceled previously announced plans to sell computer and tablet devices based on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows RT operating system because of a delay in getting components.
Facebook Shares Unlocking
An avalanche of privately held Facebook shares could begin hitting the market this week—potentially putting further pressure on the company's stock—as rules expire that have kept some early investors ...
Choosing the Paths Less Traveled? There's an App for That
In his final year at the Design Academy of Eindhoven, Tom Loois received a vague assignment: “Design your personal definition of silence.” Loois, whose training is in product design, had no idea what...