Apple EarPods Teardown
After three years of research and development, Apple has released the newest version of their popular headphones, now dubbed “EarPods.” Join us as we crack these pods open and take a look at what thr...
The iPhone Takes to the Big Screen
The world's most popular smartphone becomes significantly faster, thinner and lighter this week, while gaining a larger, 4-inch screen—all without giving up battery life, comfort in the hand and high-...
German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer
(Reuters) - The German government urged the public on Tuesday to temporarily stop using Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer following discovery of yet-to-be repaired bug in the web browser that the sof...
With Hollywood Hire, Microsoft Bolsters Entertainment Efforts
Microsoft has hired Nancy Tellem, a former top CBS television executive, to oversee the production of original video content to be delivered to the company's Xbox video game console, according to peop...
Microsoft Signs Licensing Agreement With Research In Motion
exFAT file technology helps mobile industry leader provide cutting-edge capabilities to customers. — Microsoft Corp. announced today that Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) have signed a patent ...
Facebook Beta Launches New Mobile Ad Network Using Your Data To Target You With Banner Ads In Other Apps
Facebook today begins testing its own mobile ad network. Advertisers can pay to target you with ads for app stores or websites based on your Facebook data that appears while you're on other apps and ...
Twitter's iPad App Update Provokes a Backlash
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo appeared on NBC's Today Show this morning to unveil a new look for profile pages on Twitter's website and, much more interesting to this reporter, the new “5.0″ version of Twi...
Developers seeing lightning fast app review times as Apple readies the App Store for iPhone 5
Apple is getting its ducks in a row for the release of the iPhone 5. One of the ways it's doing that is ensuring that as many apps as possible are ready for the new taller screen of the new device.
Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles
Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by downloading millions of academic a...
New departure from Zynga: Omgpop's chief revenue officer (exclusive)
Joining the exodus of executives who have left Zynga recently, Wilson Kriegel, the former chief revenue officer of Omgpop, has left the company, GamesBeat has learned. — Kriegel was part of the comp...
Yahoo To Give Shareholders $3.65 Billion, Mayer Explains Why In Leaked Memo
Yahoo has closed a deal to sell a portion of its stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba, netting $4.3 billion for the company. — In a memo to employees, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says she will retu...
Prismatic takes on Twitter in the race to build a better serendipity engine
Thanks to its recent forays into curated content, particularly around topics like the Olympics, it's become obvious that Twitter wants to be more than just a utility for distributing links: it wants t...
Life after Twitter: StockTwits builds out its own ecosystem
As Twitter transforms from an open web platform to a more traditional media company, startups that built on top of it are leaving in search of new ways to grow their business. StockTwits founder Howa...
Expand your experience: New Twitter for iPad
Today you can download the new Twitter for iPad. We've rebuilt the app from the ground up to make it fast, beautiful and easy to use. Twitter for iPad brings you closer to what's happening all over ...
Apple's Jonathan Ive to Design a Single Uber-Limited Edition Leica M
Do you love the design of Apple products? Do you have infinitely deep pockets? If you said yes to both questions, then I have some good news for you. — At Leica's special event last night, after t...
Motorola announces RAZR i with Intel processor
Today in London, Motorola is announcing the first fruits of its multi-year, multi-device partnership with Intel — a revamped Droid RAZR M called the RAZR i. While the two phones look almost identical...
AT&T will be slapped with net neutrality complaint over FaceTime blocking
Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute have informed AT&T that they intend to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against the ...
iOS 6 App Store tweaked to promote a one-tap installation of free Apple apps
It looks like Apple is putting the final touches on the redesigned App Store for iOS 6 ahead of the next-generation operating system's public launch later this week. As of this evening, a new page gr...
As Expected, Alibaba Closes $7.6 Billion Yahoo Deal
Yahoo has closed the multibillion-dollar sale of half its assets in China's Alibaba Group. — Alibaba said Tuesday that it has completed the initial repurchase of shares from Yahoo and restructured i...
Is the iPhone good enough?
We don't want to make a new phone. We want to make a much better phone. - Jony Ive, video at iPhone 5 launch event Disruption theory has taught us that the greatest danger facing a company is making...
News Corp, Google in Digital TV, Movie Deal
At the beginning of 2012, Rupert Murdoch was railing against Google, labeling it the “piracy leader.” — But that was January! Now Murdoch's 20th Century Fox studio has cut a deal to sell and rent i...
Virgin Mobile fails web security 101, leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open
tl;dr Anyone who knows your Virgin Mobile USA phone number can: — see who you've been calling and texting, — change the handset associated with your number, — change your address, your email addres...
Dice Holdings Pays $20M Cash For Slashdot, SourceForge And Freecode From Geeknet
Some consolidation afoot in online media: Dice Holdings, the career website owner, has announced that it has bought the online media business of Geeknet, which includes the high-profile tech websites ...
Dropbox for iOS gets Facebook, Twitter sharing and AirPrint support
Dropbox has given its iOS offering a little more social spice after it quietly updated the app with options to share content to Facebook and Twitter, while there is now support for AirPrint.
Yahoo!s Now Removing The ® From Their Logo. Is The Exclamation Mark Next?
File in “Silicon Valley Things That Are Amazing/Ridiculous"*: Apparently free iPhones and food aren't the only cultural changes being enacted in Marissa Mayer's Yahoo!® ...
Microsoft Said to Face EU Antitrust Complaint on Browser Choice
European Union regulators are preparing an antitrust complaint over Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s failure to comply with a settlement to give users a choice of web browsers, according to two people familia...
Hear hear: You can now listen to saved articles thanks to Pocket's updated Android app
Audiobooks are great. No matter where you are, you can pop in a set of headphones and listen to your favorite novel being read aloud with emotion and theatrical timing.
Alibaba CTO: Google has strayed from its 'Don't be evil' motto
Chinese ecommerce leader Alibaba's CTO Wang Jian has spoken out against Google and its handling of Android, adding to a growing rift between the two companies that began when a joint smartphone launch...
Lenovo buys US-based Stoneware to strengthen its cloud computing services
Lenovo has moved to strengthen its cloud computing capabilities and ‘PC Plus’ strategy after the Chinese tech firm announced a deal to buy US-based Stoneware, completing its first ever software acquis...