Apple announces special event for September 12
Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Ar...
Amazon Gets Epix Movies as Netflix Exclusive Expires
In the last year Netflix lost its digital distribution deals with Sony and Disney. Which means if you're watching a newish movie on the streaming service right now, there's a very good chance it came...
AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach
The AntiSec hacking group claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI. The group claims to have over 12 million IDs …
Pirate Bay Founder Will Be Deported, Cambodian Authorities Confirm
Last week, police arrested Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. — Svartholm was arrested in his $750 per month rented apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the...
Windows Phone 8 to include ‘Rooms’ group chat with calendar, photos, and notes sharing
Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system will include a new Rooms feature that will allow friends and family to chat in a virtual room and share data. Sources close to Microsoft's Windows Phone 8...
Galaxy S III passes Apple's iPhone 4S, becomes top selling US smartphone
For the first time since it launched last October, Apple's iPhone 4S was not the top selling smartphone in the U.S., as the newly released Samsung Galaxy S III took the top spot in the month of August...
Windows Server 2012 launches as cornerstone of Microsoft's ‘Cloud OS’
Summary: Microsoft is making available the final Windows Server 2012 bits for test and/or purchase as of September 4. — Microsoft launched Windows Server 2012 on September 4, making the final, relea...
Nano-SIMs begin arriving at telcos ahead of new iPhone launch
iFun got its hands on a Telekom (T-Mobile) NanoSIM, which first started arriving at the carrier this week, and the following message (translated) came along with the package: … The new iPhone is gener...
Play It Again, Sam? Nokia Launches Free Music Streaming Service In U.S.
Nokia didn't fare so well with its mobile music service called Ovi Music, later rebranded to Nokia Music. Now it's remixing that track and launching a free music streaming service in the U.S. as part...
Rovio unveils its ‘other white meat’: a Bad Piggies game
Angry Birds Space, the most recent Angry Birds title from Rovio, has dropped to No. 47 on the top-grossing list in the U.S. iTunes App Store. To rebound from that weak spot, Rovio is launching its Ba...
Deutsche Telekom Revamps T-Venture Strategy After Slow Start
Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE), Germany's largest telecommunications company, will overhaul its startup investment strategy so it can accelerate a push in new businesses to offset declining telephone reven...
Voice mail in decline with rise of text, loss of patience
Technology's ceaseless pursuit of efficiency appear to be claiming another victim: voice mail. — With the rise of texting, instant chat and transcription apps, more people are ditching the venerable...
When A Kickstarter Campaign Fails, Does Anyone Get Their Money Back?
Crowd funding began as a way to support the arts on the Internet. Artists could go online to pitch a new album, for example, in the hope that thousands would give small amounts. But now it's expande...
Malware attacks on the rise
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The bad guys are winning the war on cybercrime: Computer viruses, trojans and web attacks are soaring at their fastest pace in four years. — In its quarterly “Threats Report,” ...
How much does an artist make from a single stream of a song on iTunes Match and Spotify?
Streaming, subscription-based music is the future. We've been hearing that claim for years now although it always seems to be right on the cusp of happening. It's a dream for consumers, really …
Facebook Cancels Secondary Offering, Zuck And Board Members Won't Sell To Keep Shares Off The Market
With its share price ailing, Facebook doesn't want to flood the market with any more stock, so it has cancelled its secondary offering and will instead pay for taxes on its RSUs with cash …
FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers
The FBI has shot down today's claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contain some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads ...
Accountability on Kickstarter
Yesterday, NPR's “All Things Considered” asked, “When a Kickstarter campaign fails, does anyone get their money back?” The story questioned what would happen if a Kickstarter project failed to follow...
Will Twitter's Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out?
This past week I heard two rational arguments on the fate of Twitter from two smart investors. — One was an argument that it'll likely fail in its bid to become a public company. The logic went lik...
The end of Android tablets: can Google match Amazon's success before Microsoft closes the window?
This Thursday, we expect that Amazon will be unveiling a least one new Kindle Fire alongside a new e-reader. If you believe Amazon's somewhat fuzzy math, the Kindle Fire is far and away …