Apple's iPhone 5 now available to preorder in select launch countries
Following Apple's announcement of the iPhone 5 on September 12, the new smartphone is now available to preorder in the select launch countries, which include the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany...
Lightning 30-pin adapter works with analog audio, “iPod Out” doesn't mean what you think it means
A certain degree of confusion around not-yet-shipping products is inevitable, as hands-on information is limited and manufacturers' descriptions may be cryptic.
Microsoft employees getting free Surface tablets, new work PCs, Windows Phone 8
Microsoft employees are just getting out of their big company meeting at KeyArena in Seattle, and if you hear any of them comparing Steve Ballmer to Oprah, there's a reason: The company announced a su...
After a decade of research, Intel shows off its digital radio chip
Justin Rattner demonstrated Intel's first all-digital WiFi radio chip after more than a decade of research. That radio is the stepping stone for microprocessors — from the smallest sensor chips to su...
Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?
I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 30 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I ...
Apple's iPhone 5 Pre-order Shipping Estimates Slip to Two Weeks
Just an hour after pre-orders for the iPhone 5 went live, Apple Store shipping estimates for new pre-orders have already slipped to two weeks in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany, and Australia.
What's AT&T planning? Hidden specs unearthed in the GSM iPhone 5
There's more to the AT&T version of the iPhone 5 than meets the eye. ExtremeTech's Neal Gompa sorted through the device's testing documentation at the Federal Communications Commission and found ther...
Twitter surrenders Occupy protester's tweets
(Reuters) - Twitter handed over tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York criminal judge on Friday after months of fighting a subpoena from prosecutors. — The company surrendered the...
Apple Patents Point to Siri Controlling iTunes on an iMac & More
During yesterday's special iPhone event, Eddy Cue, Senior VP of Internet Software and Services took to the stage to announce that a new version of iTunes. Cue pointed to dramatically simplifying iTun...
HP's Whitman: ‘We have to offer a smartphone eventually’
Summary: HP's Meg Whitman says the company has to offer a smartphone eventually, despite the computing giant's move to ditch its webOS smartphone range last year. — Zack Whittaker — HP chief execu...
Twitter Hires Elite Apple Hacker Charlie Miller To Beef Up Its Security Team
In Twitter's early days, hackers enjoyed breaking into the company's accounts to embarrass news anchors or make obscene jokes about Britney Spears' nether regions. Lately, it seems like world-class h...
Injustice Continues as Megaupload User Data Negotiations Go Bust
Almost nine months have passed since Megaupload's servers were raided by the U.S. Government yet after all this time there is no agreement on how former users can retrieve their files. — Meanwhile, ...
China Unicom confirms iPhone 5 launch coming in next three months
A China Unicom executive has confirmed that, as long as regulatory approval comes as expected, Apple's new iPhone 5 will arrive on the carrier's network within three months of the handset's September ...
Study: 1 in 5 U.S. women are now using Pinterest
Pew study finds 12% of U.S. adults are now using Pinterest, but nearly 20% of women are on the site — I've gotten hooked on Pinterest. It's the only way to keep track of all the stuff I want. It m...
More than 50% of Android devices contain unpatched vulnerabilities
A common complaint among Android users concerns the inability to receive timely device patches and updates from carriers and manufacturers. Various smartphones are released each year with outdated so...