iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours
Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 5 topped two million in just 24 hours, more than double the previous record of one million held by iPhone 4S. Demand for iPhone 5 exceeds the initial ...
Square Finally Closes $200 Million Round at a $3.25 Billion Valuation
Square has finally closed its fourth round of funding, which values the three-year-old company at a jaw-dropping $3.25 billion. — The payments company is perhaps best known for allowing small busine...
Google takes on Instagram and Facebook by acquiring top iOS photo app Snapseed
Google has agreed to acquire Nik Software, the German developer of photography app Snapseed, for an undisclosed amount. Sources close to the deal tell The Verge that while Nik Software produces all s...
Nokia confirms: Amazon has licensed its Location Platform for maps and geocoding
It's not that a big surprise anymore, after Reuters earlier reported that Amazon teamed up with Nokia for mapping services, but to my knowledge the Finnish smartphone and mobile software maker has nev...
Office 2013 packages start at $139.99 or $99.99 per year for a subscription version
Microsoft is revealing the final pricing structure for its Office 2013 packages today. After introducing a preview of Office 2013 in July, Microsoft is planning to offer a subscription version of Off...
Apple's Stock Price Breaks Through $700, Sets New All-Time Records for Price and Market Cap
Following today's news that the iPhone 5 has set a record with over two million pre-orders during the first 24 hours of availability last Friday, Apple's stock price is rising once more.
Pegatron reportedly nabs 50 to 60 percent of iPad mini orders, breaks up Foxconn's monopoly
While folks are waiting for their precious new iPhones to arrive on their doorsteps, word has it that the leaky iPad mini has unsurprisingly entered mass production, but with a twist.
Asus Windows 8 tablet pricing comes in high; Demand likely low
Summary: Asus' Windows 8 tablet pricing will start at $599 and run to $1,299. In other words, tablets will be more than laptops in some cases without any enterprise heft to justify a premium. — Lar...
Microsoft confirms October 25 launch for Windows 8
Summary: Microsoft officials are now confirming the Windows 8 — and Surface RT — launch will be on October 25 in New York City. — Mary Jo Foley — It's not a big surprise to readers of this blog, b...
LG launches Optimus G flagship smartphone: quad-core S4 Pro, LTE, 2GB RAM, ICS, 13MP camera (updated)
It's official! Today in Seoul LG is announcing its latest flagship smartphone, the Optimus G. The 8.45mm (0.33-inch) thin handset — which has been rumored for weeks …
AMD CFO Thomas Seifert calls it quits, Devinder Kumar takes his place on an interim basis
Advanced Micro Devices' Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer, Thomas Seifert, has decided to leave the AMD three short years after joining the company. As you may recall, Seifert briefly took …
Kindle Fire HD Teardown
The Kindle Fire HD has landed on the doorstep of iFixit. Naturally, we've embarked on the epic voyage of exploring the electronic innards of the Kindle Fire HD. What will we find? Follow along as w...
JetBlue to roll out in-flight Wi-Fi in Q1 2013, will launch free of charge
JetBlue travelers, the wait for in-flight W-Fi is nearly over: an internal company email today revealed the airline intends to roll out high-speed wireless networking in the first quarter of 2013.
H-P Tries On a Sleeker Look
Taking a Cue From Apple, CEO Whitman Makes Better Design Central to Turnaround — When Meg Whitman took over as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. a year ago, she got a company-issued laptop. — ...
Sorry, Developers: Don't Expect Facebook's F8 Conference This Year
Last year around this time, Facebook was gearing up for F8, the social giant's conference in San Francisco to address the thousands of developers creating applications and Web sites that work with Fac...
Skype preparing to launch video messaging and ‘Metro’ design
Skype is preparing to update its range of clients to support a new video messaging option, The Verge has learned. The feature will launch in time for the holidays, possibly as early as next month — a...
Appeals court halts proceedings in Google Books case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today granted a stay in the long-running copyright case between the Authors Guild and Google over the search giant's book scanning project. — In its ...
App-controlled LIFX bulbs reinvent the humble household light
For years and years, the dimmer switch was about as fancy as it got for lightbulbs — but a team of designers is intending to change all that. — The LIFX lightbulb (pronounced “life ex") is a Kicksta...
As predicted, Google+ passes 400M registered users, now has 100M monthly active users
As part of Google's announcement to acquire Snapseed's creator Nik software, Vic Gundotra, the Senior Vice President of Engineering for Google, just announced a new milestone for Google+ …
Critical zero-day bug in Internet Explorer under active attack
Remotely triggered vuln can affect a wide variety of IE and Windows versions. — Researchers have uncovered active malware attacks that exploit a critical and previously unknown vulnerability in the ...
New Fitbits can sync with iPhones, Androids via Bluetooth 4.0
Fitbit users: ever think to yourself, “I wish this thing would just sync wirelessly with my phone and be done with it?” Your wish has now been granted. Fitbit has announced that it's offering two ne...
Google's Loss=Yandex's Gain In iOS6: Russian Search Giant Nabs Apple Maps API; Search Deal In The Works
Apple's gradual extrication from Google services is having a knock-on effect in international markets — and Google's competitors elsewhere. In Russia, the local search leader Yandex …
First third-party Lightning to 30-pin adapters show up on Amazon for $10-18 (Ebay too)
Look what just popped up on Amazon: A company called Nanotch is offering pre-orders for 30-pin to Lightning adapters. There had been concern when a report last month said the 9-pin adapters …
Canon launches Project 1709 social image management service in UK beta
Canon has launched the beta version of a new image management platform, aiming to provide a central location for viewing photographs from a wide range of services and networks. Dubbed “Project 1709” ...
Two men admit to $10 million hacking spree on Subway sandwich shops
The Romanians admitted their role in ring that compromised some 146,000 cards. — Two Romanian men have admitted to participating in an international conspiracy that hacked into credit-card payment t...
Clover Trail Atoms will give Windows 8 tablets ARM-like battery life
Intel's next generation of Atom processors made headlines last week because it will completely eschew Linux support, but that wasn't the only detail about the new Clover Trail platform that came out o...
The Return of Facebook's Winklevoss Twins
The Winklevoss twins lost the biggest social-network showdown ever when their rival, Mark Zuckerberg, walked away with Facebook. Now they are trying again—with a social network for professional inves...
Everything's broken and nobody's upset
Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just a few issues - literally off the top of my head - that I personally dealt with last week. — My iPhone 4s has 3 gigs of...
Samsung to unveil Galaxy S4 in Feb 2013
Summary: New handset expected to sport 5-inch screen, and will see some “external changes” but retain its rectangle shape with rounded corners concept; to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in...
Internet Archive Amasses All TV News Since 2009
Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads. — “W...
Amazon Maps API enters beta as retailer weans itself off Google
Well, that's one more option to Google's mapping service and one less company paying data dividends into the Mountain View system. Apple has already left Big G to develop its own platform and now Ama...
4 Reasons Facebook Dumped HTML5 and Went Native
Facebook made quite a splash when they released their native iOS app, not because of their app per se, but because of their conclusion that their biggest mistake was betting on HTML5, so they had to g...