The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T
I can confirm that the Verizon iPhone 5 is indeed GSM unlocked. Even though I bought an iPhone 5 from Verizon under contract, I was able to cut down my AT&T Micro SIM, and use it in my Verizon iPhone...
The first three iPhone 5 (and Earpod) ads hit: Thumbs, Physics, Cheese and Ears
It sounds like the first iPhone 5 ads are narrated by Jeff Daniels of Dumb and Dumber and Newsroom fame. — Thumbs shows how the 4 inch screen is tailored to the windshield -wiper motion of your thum...
Apple A6 Die Revealed: 3-core GPU, < 100mm^2
Our good friends at UBM TechInsights sent over the first diffusion images of Apple's new A6 SoC. It's still too early to tell a lot but we have confirmation of a lot of things. The image above shows...
iPhone 5 Reaches Same Level of Online Sales in First 3 Days that iPhone 4S Reached in First Month
Today, crowds of eager consumers will get their hands on the iPhone 5 as Apple's latest smartphone officially hits stores and mailboxes across the U.S. It's been just over a week since CEO Tim Cook …
Startup = Growth
A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or ha...
Are the iPhone queues for the fans or the publicity?
Summary: Apple launch events have turned into a honeypot for companies looking to get some free publicity, and the Australian launch of the iPhone 5 is no exception. — Spandas Lui — My impression ...
‘We will find you’ marketing gone wild: Candy bars that guarantee stalkers
What do you get when you mix technology with candy bars? In a cool yet creepy for privacy marketing campaign, Nestle plans to stalk consumers. The “We will find you” promotion involves GPS trackers ...
Verizon finally rolling out Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy Nexus
Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean back in June and released it for the unlocked GSM Galaxy Nexus a few weeks later, but Verizon's version has remained stuck on Ice Cream Sandwich.
Facebook tests prompt asking you to snitch on your friends who aren't using their real name
Facebook's ongoing war on pseudonyms is well-documented. The company wants everyone to use their real name on the social network, and ideally this would be their only identity on the Internet.
Microsoft to deliver new Windows 8 and Windows RT Lync app in late October
Summary: The product formerly known as Lync MX, a touch-centric, Windows Store app, will be available for Windows 8 and Windows RT PCs and tablets in late October. — Testers have been putting the ne...
RIM's BlackBerry Service Experiences Outage in EMEA
Research In Motion's BlackBerry service is currently experiencing a series of issues in Europe, Middle East and Africa. — Apparently, only some of its users are affected, yet RIM hasn't provided spe...
Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry
Google's “billions of clicks” are only half of the story. — In April of 2010, Eric Schmidt delivered the keynote address at the conference of the American Society of News Editors in Washington, D.C....
Google Welcomes Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's “The Internship” on Campus
You wouldn't know that relations between Google and Hollywood are testy by the week they've had together. — Google has taken in movie stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn with open arms, lending its c...
Google shuts China-only music site
Summary: The search giant's music download service, exclusive to China users, has been shuttered as its impact was “not as great as expected”. — Ellyne Phneah — Google has shut its music download ...
OpenStreetMap Gets First Major Funding From Knight News Challenge
OpenStreetMap, the increasingly popular Wikipedia-like project to create a map of the world — it's now used by Apple, Foursquare and others — has gotten its first major funding grant. — Knight News ...
EU Clears Universal-EMI Merger With Conditions
BRUSSELS—European Union regulators Friday cleared Universal Music Group's $1.9 billion bid for the recorded music division of iconic British music company EMI Group Ltd., but are demanding that Univer...
Young startup Double Robotics scores $1.2M in sales for iPad-on-wheels robots
Double Robotics, the Y Combinator grad that's created probably the best-looking telepresence robots on the planet, announced a $250,000 investment from Grishin Robotics today — and the fact that Doubl...
Good Karma! Facebook to launch social gifting app in the US in a matter of weeks
Around the same time it started listing its shares on NASDAQ, Facebook announced that it had acquired social gifting app maker Karma for a reported $80 million+, making it one of the company's largest...
Google may face EU antitrust proceedings
EU competition commissioner says concessions do not go far enough to ease concerns it used its search clout to block rivals — Europe's antitrust chief has publicly warned Google that it could face c...
Chart This: 160 “Strategic Buyers” of Tech Companies
In the technology world, big companies that buy smaller ones often will map out dozens of potential acquisition targets. — Why shouldn't the start-ups and their investors be able to size up the pote...
The Apple iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken
Just hours after the new Apple iPhone 5 was released, it has already been jailbroken. While iOS 6 has been jailbroken on other devices, this development means hackers have already found and exploited...
You Might Be Able To Download Your Tweets By The End Of The Year
China's Alibaba to spin off team developing mobile operating system
(Reuters) - Alibaba Group, China's biggest e-commerce firm, will spin off the team developing its Aliyun mobile operating system, which Google Inc claims uses aspects of its own mobile operating syste...
Fear & Loathing in Nerdtown: Apple Maps & Twitter Shutoffs
My Twitter feed is full of people bitching about the new Apple Maps in iOS6 today, plus IFTTT shutting down pushing tweets into other places because of Twitter's new TOS. Pretty different things, but...
Twitter CEO touts building ‘true platform,’ ignores developers' anger
Appearing on “Charlie Rose,” Dick Costolo said Twitter is focusing on a broad ecosystem, but chalked API access limits up to its broad vision, sidestepping developers' ire at being cut out.