How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual
We recently showed you just how badly some of Apple's retail elite behave when no one's watching, but surely they were taught better, right? You bet they were: Apple tells its new recruits exactly wh...
SkyDrive for Android phones now available
A few weeks ago we announced our intention to release an official SkyDrive app for Android phones. Today we're excited to announce that the app is now available for download. We want to ensure that ...
Apple ‘AirPlay Direct’ planned for September launch
Hifi manufacturers are preparing for Apple to launch ‘AirPlay Direct’ technology that allows wireless music playback without the need for a WiFi network. — Apple's Steve Jobs launched AirPlay in 201...
T-Mobile Adding microSIM Kits For iPhone 4/4S, Training Employees For “Selling Against The iPhone”
Based on both pieces of information that just came into our inbox, we're trying to draw two conclusions, one that T-Mobile isn't getting the iPhone 5, which shouldn't surprise anyone.
Exclusive: Zynga's Chief Creative Officer Mike Verdu Exits to Start a New Company
Mike Verdu confirmed to AllThingsD that he is leaving Zynga to start his own game company in which Zynga will be an investor. — As Chief Creative Officer at Zynga, Verdu oversaw a number of the comp...
Isis Mobile-Payment System To Debut In September After Delays
Isis, the mobile-payment joint venture backed by AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc., is on track for a debut in September, following months of delays and a change in strategy last y...
Time Warner Cable invests $25M to build 1Gbps fiber network
Time Warner Cable is following Google's lead with a 1Gbps fiber network in New York City, except Time Warner will focus on business customers and it hasn't yet announced pricing. — Time Warner Cable...
Preparing for the iPhone Next: Rumors Analyzed
While we typically don't comment on rumors we don't know to be true at AnandTech, we often get requests to help set rational expectations ahead of major iDevice launches. The shroud of secrecy around...
Google's Nexus 7 tablet pops up in rare home page ad
In a first, Google is actually touting a product on its home page, which is typically free of advertisements. — Google really wants people to take a look at its Nexus 7 tablet. — The $199 tablet s...
Google Reinstates Controversial Music-Streaming App Grooveshark
More than a year after Google Inc. removed the controversial Grooveshark music-streaming service from its app store for Android smartphones, the app was quietly reinstated Tuesday afternoon, despite o...
Google Wallet to challenge iPhone Passbook by storing ID, boarding passes, and more
News by Andrew Kameka on Monday August 27, 2012. — Aside from the payment and loyalty card information that Google Wallet already stores, Google hopes to include boarding passes, identification card...
I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
I.B.M. is introducing on Tuesday a new line of mainframe computers, adding yet another chapter to a remarkable story of technological longevity and business strategy. — The new model, the zEnterpris...
Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak
Mozilla has released Firefox 15 for PCs, smartphones, and tablets. The most standout features are a completely silent background updater (like Chrome), significant memory footprint improvements, a bu...
Half of All Mobile Phones Will Be Smartphones by 2013, Two Years Earlier Than Forecast
Those smartphones are growing up so fast. — It seems like just yesterday they were sending their first emails from their baby keyboards, and now they are poised to take over the world.
The Andreessen Horowitz Effect
In the three short years since Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road, they've already established Andreessen Horowitz as one of the top VC firms in Sili...
Kim Dotcom offers developers early API access to the upcoming Megaupload reboot
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has had a bone to pick with authorities since the service was shut down and he was arrested earlier this year. It looks like he's going to be a thorn in the side for the...
Lexmark to exit inkjet printers, cut 1,700 jobs
Summary: Lexmark will close an inkjet manufacturing facility in the Philippines and cease development as it eyes high-end imaging. — Larry Dignan — Lexmark on Tuesday said it will exit its inkjet ...
OnLive lost: how the paradise of streaming games was undone by one man's ego
“I'm the one that brought you here. I'm the one that ultimately made decisions, and I'm the one that ultimately takes responsibility. So I am sorry, and it didn't end up exactly as we'd hoped.”
New Java 7 exploit can potentially affect Macs
While there are no known attempts to use a newly discovered vulnerability to target Mac users, the exploit has been successfully triggered in both Safari and Firefox on Macs running Mountain Lion. — ...
Death To The Restaurant Buzzer: NoWait Raises $2 Million For iOS-Based Waitlisting System
NoWait, a mobile waitlisting management service based in Pittsburgh, is announcing today it has closed on a $2 million Series A round of funding led by Birchmere Ventures.
Apple strikes licensing deal with Motorola in Germany, heralds more peaceful times?
Motorola's war with Apple has certainly been overshadowed by the showdown with Samsung. But, with the latter melodrama shifting into quiet mode, focus is coming back to the battle with Moto.
IBM Envisions Watson As Supercharged Siri For Businesses
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” Now they're trying to figure o...
Flipboard Hits 20 Million Users, 3 Billion Flips Per Month
Oh hey, remember when Flipboard had 5 million users? That was the official figure at the end of last year. It was also the number that came out just as the social magazine app was launching on iPhon...
YouTube's Ad Overhaul Moves on to Xbox. Next Stop, Apple?
Hey, look at this: Yet another YouTube app overhaul, which features a bunch of ... features. See if you can guess what's most important about the new Xbox app from Google's perspective, via a PR emai...
It appears Google has quietly killed its weather API
Last month, Google announced plans to shutter iGoogle, among a bunch of other services. Many developers and users were (and still are) outraged, but at least they have some time to breathe: iGoogle i...
Samsung Vows to Fight Ban
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it would fight Apple Inc.'s attempt to ban the sale of some of its smartphones in the U.S. with “all necessary measures.” — After winning a jury verdict for pa...
Apple win whacks Android resale prices
Since the $1.05 billion verdict Friday …
Samsung unveils new Series 7 and Series 5 AIOs: Windows 8 and gesture recognition for $749 and up
Samsung teased a Series 7 all-in-one running Windows 8 — on a 10-point touch display — at Computex in June, and today the machine gets official with pricing and specs.
No NFC in Next-Generation iPhone
With Apple having announced its new Passbook digital wallet for iOS 6, speculation regarding the potential for the incorporation of near field communications (NFC) in the next-generation iPhone has ra...
Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing
SEATTLE — Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company's larger and more secretive goal: giving anyone on the...
iTunes Festival 2012 Live Streaming App Appears on Apple TV
Back in May, Apple announced that its annual iTunes Festival in London would be moving to September for 2012, with the event once again offering 30 days of free concerts at The Roundhouse. While tick...
LG Optimus G revealed: 1.5GHz quad-core CPU, ICS, LTE, 4.7-inch screen with in-cell touch
LG has been teasing its upcoming Optimus G smartphone for weeks and now we finally have the full specs. When it arrives in Korea next month it will be the first with LTE integrated into a quad-core C...
Second accused LulzSec hacker arrested in Sony Pictures breach
(Reuters) - A second suspected member of the clandestine hacking group LulzSec was arrested on Tuesday on charges he took part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the FBI s...
Why I think Evernote CEO Phil Libin is underrated
Evernote, the digital locker software, is an unlikely success story in Silicon Valley. Last week at the Evernote Trunk Conference, its annual developer lovefest in San Francisco, the company announce...
Barnes & Noble announces John Lewis as its first Nook retail partner ahead of October UK launch
Last week we reported that Barnes & Noble was finally bringing its NOOK e-readers and digital bookstore to the UK, launching some time in the autumn. — As the company noted at the time …
Samsung Galaxy S III coming in new brown, red, black and grey colour variants
It has been rumoured for a while but with the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin commencing today, Samsung has confirmed that it will release four new colour variants of its bestselling Gal...
The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How @Shirls Fooled The Valley
Silicon Valley is full of hustlers, and that's often a good thing. But there's a difference between hustling and flat-out lying, and when people deceive company after company, it's time to call them ...
Rackspace Acquires Mailgun
Rackspace has acquired Mailgun, a San Francisco-based Y Combinator startup that has developed an API for creating and managing online email inboxes for apps and websites.
Michael Dell is not worried about the post-PC era
Michael Dell defied predictions of the PC's doom, noting that PC sales have more than tripled since the term “post-PC” was first coined in 1999. — Dell was speaking at a CEO roundtable today in San ...