HP Previews Windows 8 All-in-One PCs With NFC, Touchscreens
A little over a week ago, HP revealed some of its upcoming Windows 8 Ultrabooks and convertible PCs. Now, the company is playing show-and-tell with its new all-in-one PCs. — HP Spectre One
Toys ‘R’ Us Rolls Out Its Own Tablet
In a bid to battle the “showrooming” phenomenon that is hurting big-box retailers, Toys “R” Us Inc. is expected to disclose Monday that it plans to sell a proprietary tablet designed for children. — ...
180 Out Of 202 Kansas City ‘Fiberhoods’ Reach Their Google Fiber Pre-Registration Goals
Two weeks ago, things didn't look so great for Google Fiber, but after a last-minute push, 180 out of the 202 ‘fiberhoods’ in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri managed to reach Google's go...
Google Glass Meets Fashion, Smart Glasses To Be Part Of DVF Fashion Show
Google Glass — Google's smart glasses project — is heading into the new world of fashion. Designer Diane von Furstenberg and others have been using them to record preparations for the upcoming DVF Sp...
Amazon updates its Kindle Mac app, adds support for gestures, new Kindle 8 format and more
Following the announcement of its new Kindle e-reader and tablet line-up at the end of last week, Amazon has pushed live a new update for its Kindle Mac app, adding support for Lion gestures …
Is Spotify Preparing To Push Its App Center To Its iOS Mobile App?
Yesterday, Josh wrote about how Spotify is planning to push out a browser-based version of its music streaming service. Earlier today AllThingsD further confirmed this and added a bit more color: the...
Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google For Defamation Over Autocomplete Suggestions
When you search for “Bettina Wulff” on Google, the search engine will happily autocomplete this search with terms like “escort” and “prostitute.” That's obviously not something you would like to be a...
Google Maps uses Ground Truth project to battle Apple
Google's software analyses Street View photographs to locate and identify relevant information which it then adds to its maps — A new front opens up in the smartphone battle between Google and Apple...
Lunch with the FT: Tim Berners-Lee
Over iced tea and eggplant pita, the inventor of the world wide web talks about Apple, Facebook and the digital divide — Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an intimidating interviewee. It's not so much the wor...
Google Charges Retailers to Appear on Shopping Site
Whether you are looking to buy a power tool or neon jeans online, chances are you start your search on Google or Amazon.com. But which one? — Behind the scenes, the two companies are waging a war t...
Amazon Expanding In-App Purchases to Include the Sale and Delivery of Physical Goods
In what is one of the best demonstrations of Amazon's tablet and commerce businesses coming together, the company is letting developers sell physical goods inside of their games with one click.
Amid Outage, GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign
Following a day-long Domain Name Service server outage, web hosting provider GoDaddy is letting its competitor, VeriSign, host its DNS servers. — On Monday afternoon — about four hours after it was ...
Statement from BlueToad regarding the cyber attack suffered in the recent case of stolen Apple UDIDs
A little more than a week ago, BlueToad was the victim of a criminal cyber attack, which resulted in the theft of Apple UDIDs from our systems. Shortly thereafter, an unknown group posted these UDIDs...
The Difference Between Apple & Amazon In One Chart
Apple and Amazon are both in the business of designing small computers - tablets, ereaders, phones, media players - and selling them to the public. But how they do it is the big difference. And that...
The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community
You know the old saying about trust ... “It takes years to build and seconds to destroy.” — And once destroyed it is very difficult if not impossible to repair. You need to be the guardian of your ...
Google Adds Pirate Bay Domains to Censorship List
There are certain words Google doesn't want you to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in ‘peni...’ or ‘vagin...’ and the search giant leaves out the most obvious suggestions. This, d...
Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa
Photos of the mystery computing device appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily read the name prin...
IPhone 5 Sales Could Offer Big Boost to GDP
The iPhone 5, which Apple Inc. plans to release this week, could get credit for something Congress, the White House and Federal Reserve have struggled to do: boost the U.S. economy in a measurable way...
Careful Who You Friend: Taliban Posing as ‘Attractive Women’ Online
U.S. and Australian troops during a 2010 computer training exercise. Photo: Australian Ministry of Defense — Tech-savvy Talibs have posed as pretty girls on Facebook to lure Australian troops into ...
Facebook's China problem
CEO Mark Zuckerberg would like to reach the country's 513 million Internet users. Too bad local entrepreneurs have beaten him to the punch. — FORTUNE — Last May when Mark Zuckerberg wed his Chinese...
Nielsen: Majority Of Mobile U.S. Teens Now Own Smartphones
Nielsen announced in May that more than half of U.S. mobile owners now owned smartphones, and today that metric has grown again, going from 50.4% to 55.5%. But the more interesting figure in the firm...