iPhone 5 Teardown
Behold, the sixth generation of iPhone! We shall call it...iPhone 5! Buckle down for the iPhone 5 teardown: the biggest thing to happen to teardowns since teardowns. Follow us on Twitter for all th...
Wrong turn: Apple's buggy iOS 6 maps lead to widespread complaints
Apple has a maps problem. — The major new feature of the company's new iOS 6 mobile operating system is a new mapping module developed by Apple itself — a replacement for the Google-supplied maps th...
Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval. It is solely up to Apple to approve.
Previous version of Google Maps on iOS. — If you are missing Google Maps after updating to iOS 6 over the past 24 hours, good news may be just around the corner. As previously rumored …
Swiss Federal Railways Says Apple Copied Its Iconic Railway Clock
Switzerland's Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, or Swiss Federal Railway service, has accused Apple of using their iconic clock in its Clock app for iPad without permission, according to a report in the Sw...
Exclusive: Wal-Mart stops selling Amazon Kindles
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will no longer sell Amazon.com Inc's Kindle products, making the world's largest retailer the second major chain to stop selling Amazon's devices, according to an inter...
IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers on September 27th to comply with new API policies
The internet service glue product IFTTT has been forced to remove its Twitter triggers after recent changes to Twitter's API policies. The change was confirmed in an email sent out to IFTTT users tod...
Salon Sells The Well to Longtime Members
One of the earliest online communities, The Well, has a new owner: its members. — On Thursday evening, Salon Media Group, the previous owner of The Well, said it had sold the community to The Well G...
Facebook promises to update its mobile apps every 4 to 8 weeks
Following the update of Facebook for Android, Facebook Messenger for Android, Facebook for iOS and Facebook Pages Manager for iOS today, the social networking giant has even more news to share: a new ...
Nokia would like to take this opportunity to remind you that its maps are better than Apple's
Nokia took the opportunity today to post up an interesting entry on its Conversations blog called “Benchmarking mobile maps” (thanks to Tim Bradshaw for pointing this out).
New Apple maps app under fire from users
Apple's map app renames the town of Hagley as Dudley - which is more than seven miles away — Inaccuracies and misplaced towns and cities in Apple's new map software have provoked anger from users. ...
Microsoft's Surface challenge: Proving it's a premium product worth a premium price
Summary: I think there's a market for premium, differentiated PC/tablet hybrids that aren't trying to compete primarily on price. I'm hoping Microsoft's Surface proves this category exists.
Exclusive: Facebook to charge merchants to run Offers
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it will start charging businesses to run Offers on its social network, turning a previously free service into a potential revenue generator at a time when Wall Street is ...
Facebook tests automatic ‘Photo Sync’ uploads on Android
Facebook has begun testing a new feature for Android owners that syncs photos you shoot on your phone straight to your Facebook account. It's a hybrid of Google+'s instant photo-upload feature and Ap...
History, As Recorded on Twitter, Is Vanishing From The Web, Say Computer Scientists
Almost 30 per cent of recorded history, shared over social media such as Twitter, has disapeared, according to a new study of the Egyptian uprising and other significant events
Raspberry Pi gets a 1GHz turbo mode
The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic bit of kit out the box, offering a complete PC for just $35. But of course, as soon as you start using it you would like it to go a bit faster than the stock 700MHz cl...
Business Card Upstart Moo.com Buys Flavors.me To Expand Its Digital Profile
Moo.com, the online-to-print business card company that was one of the UK's earlier startup successes, is branching out: it is buying all of the assets of Flavors.me, the site where people can create ...
Major League Baseball Hopes iPhone Tickets Will Be a Hit
While riding to San Francisco's AT&T Park on Thursday, an alert popped up on my phone letting me know that the Giants game was nearby, even though I was still on the train nearing the ballpark. — As...
Roku Streaming Stick coming in October for $99, Roku 2 boxes get Vudu app, plus mobile app adds AirPlay-esque streaming
Roku's Streaming Stick will be out in time for the holidays, but it only works with a handful of TVs. — Roku's Streaming Stick was one of the most interesting home theater products …
BlackBerry Creator Lazaridis Puts $100M Into Nano Labs
Mike Lazaridis, whose invention of the BlackBerry smartphone more than a decade ago redefined the way people send e-mail, is drawing inspiration from the early days of computing for his next act. — ...
iCloud for Windows 2.0: An improvement, but not much has changed
iCloud gets a lot of attention in reviews of iOS and OS X, and with good reason—it's one of Apple's biggest services, and with every new version of its desktop and mobile operating systems, iCloud exp...
New Philippines law bans ‘cybersex’
The president of the Philippines signed a cyber crime bill into law on Tuesday that, much to the chagrin of Internet freedom activists, outlaws “cybersex,” bans “unsolicited commercial communications”...
Google, Chunghwa Telecom sign deal on YouTube broadcasting
Google's video website YouTube will soon be available on a digital television service offered by Chunghwa Telecom Co, the Taiwanese carrier said Tuesday. — The content will be introduced under an ag...
Pirate Bay Financier Files For Bankruptcy, Focus Shifts To Peter Sunde
Following their earlier convictions for copyright infringement, Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, former site spokesman Peter Sunde, and financier Carl Lundström all owe a co...