Amazon confirms: All new Kindle Fires stuck with ads
All new Kindle Fire tablets have “Special Offers” (ads), and — unlike past Kindles — you won't be able to opt out. — Amazon introduced a bevy of new tablets and e-readers at its Santa Monica press c...
Nokia to start selling make-or-break smartphone in November
(Reuters) - Nokia will start selling its new smartphone, potentially its last chance to break into the most profitable part of mobile phone market and secure its future, in November, sources at Europe...
Apple to unveil new lineup of desktop iMacs
Get ready, because the iMacs are coming. — I've been hoping for an iMac update and it looks like my wish is about to come true! Multiple sources tell me that a new lineup of desktop machines from A...
New iPhone to Support LTE Around the World
Apple Inc.'s next iPhone will work on the fastest wireless networks around the world—including in the U.S., Europe and Asia—though it is unlikely to be available on every carrier, people familiar with...
Apple's new iPods: Various new iPod touches, new iPod nano, tweaked iPod shuffle
Earlier this week, we reported that the iPhone 5 (codenamed N42) will share the stage with a string of new iPod announcements on September 12th. At that time, we believed Apple would introduce …
Turning The Drama Down On Y Combinator V. Google Ventures
I have a few thoughts on this Y Combinator/Google Ventures mess. — Background: — The original post is at Business Insider and includes a leaked email from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham. The em...
Google beefs up its security by acquiring online virus scanner VirusTotal
Google has just acquired VirusTotal, a free security service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs, for an undisclosed amount. According to VirusTotal's announcement, the two companies had been par...
Fox to Offer Digital Movies Closer to Theatrical Release
LOS ANGELES — Fox is about to pry open the window for digital film sales. — Beginning later this month with Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller “Prometheus,” the studio plans to offer high-defin...
White House circulating draft of executive order on cybersecurity
The White House is circulating a draft of an executive order aimed at protecting the country from cyber attacks, The Hill has learned. — The draft proposal, which has been sent to relevant federal a...
A step towards iTravel? Delta and American Airlines confirm support for Apple Passbook
With Apple expected to unleash iOS 6 next week, you can expect Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and undoubtedly other carriers to be supporting Passbook's mobile boarding pass functionality at laun...
The FBI pours $1 billion into facial recognition technology project, going nationwide in 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a $1 billion budget for its latest venture: using facial recognition technology to fight crime. Dubbed the Next Generation Identification (NGI) …
FedEx Planning for ‘Surge Volume’ Event September 21-24, Coinciding with Rumored iPhone 5 Launch Date
MacRumors has received word that FedEx is making preparations for a “surge volume” event during the period of September 21-24, coinciding with rumors of an iPhone launch in the United States …
How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
and What It Means for the Future of Everything — An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps. — Behind every Google Map, there is a much mor...
Airlines begin integrating Passbook for mobile boarding passes ahead of iOS 6 launch
While we expect a ton of businesses to soon start integrating iOS 6′s Passbook feature for storing boarding passes, loyalty cards, coupons, etc., it appears one airline has already done so.
Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping, judge says
Cheap and widely used interception gear means open WiFi traffic is public. — A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that intercepting traffic on unencrypted WiFi networks is not wiretapping. The dec...
Pandora Shares Down 18% After Apple Reportedly Working On Own Rival Service
Ouch. Not that it's much of a surprise, but a little over twelve hours after The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was going to create its own Pandora rival, prices of Pandora shares have tanke...
Google Maps adds new hi-res imagery in more than 60 regions following Bing's aerial maps roll out
Following the recent completion of Microsoft's Global Ortho (GO) project for Bing Maps, Google is now announcing updated, high resolution satellite imagery for more than 60 regions and updated aerial ...
Where oh where is Windows Phone 8?
The Nokia Lumia 920 is amazingly yellow. — Microsoft — Two companies have now announced their Windows Phone 8 hardware. Samsung was first out of the blocks, showing off its ATIV S at IFA last mon...
Meet Apple's Favorite Blogger
On a cold day in February, John Gruber traveled from his home in Philadelphia to New York City for a meeting. At a posh hotel near Central Park, the 39-year-old tech blogger was greeted by Phil Schil...
How Kansas City taxpayers support Google Fiber
Google Fiber isn't exactly a free-market success story. — On Wednesday, Republican FCC commissioner Ajit Pai released a statement praising the Google Fiber project as a model for other metropolitan ...
Flipboard Has A Great Plan For Surviving Twitter's War On Developers: E-Commerce
Flipboard just revealed a new product that could well save the company: a social catalog for shopping. — More broadly, it shows that the much-watched startup is shifting away from getting people to ...
Dot-Com Bubble's Equity Swaps Are Back
Short of Cash, Start-Ups Opt to Pay for Professional Services by Offering Stakes to Website Designers, Marketers, Law Firms — Raaj Nemani and a pal were making plans to start their own business, an ...
FBI vs. Google: The Legal Fight to Unlock Phones
A legal battle is brewing between technology companies and the U.S. government over whether law-enforcement agents have the right to obtain passwords to crack into smartphones of suspects. — Google ...
Amazon confirms: yes, you can opt out of ads on new Kindle Fire models
The new Kindle Fire range was barely out of the oven before Amazon drew flak for its plans to include Special Offers on the lock screen for US models. In plainer language, the tablets ship with ads b...
Taxi & Limousine Commission Tells Uber They Can't Legally Operate a Taxi App In NYC, Uber CEO Disagrees
“We got a love letter from the TLC,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just told Betabeat over the phone. He was referring, sarcastically, to a statement just issued by the Taxi and Limousine Commission to …
Intel cuts its Q3 revenue outlook down to $13.2 billion, could be even worse
Chipmaker Intel today announced that its revenue for the third quarter of 2012 is expected to come in (quite far) below the company's previous outlook as “a result of weaker than expected demand in a ...