Google Play hits 25 billion downloads
Whether you're looking for directions, checking email or sharing a picture with friends, apps are now an indispensable part of life. And if you're using Android, it all starts with Google Play, home ...
Apple's Maps Tilt in Strange Directions
Last week, I used Apple's new Maps app on my iPhone to guide me to a speaking engagement. — The GPS navigation screen was clean, bold and distraction-free. The voice instructions spoke the actual s...
Barnes & Noble Takes Aim at Amazon With New HD Nooks
Yesterday, Barnes & Noble revealed its plans for a Nook-branded online video store. — Today, the company is showing off the products it hopes you'll be watching that video on: New Nook tablets, call...
Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts
Some Facebook business Pages lost tens of thousands of fans today, but they shouldn't fret. Facebook has confirmed with me that it's currently purging fake accounts and Page Likes …
Samsung has fix for Galaxy S III reset vulnerability, asks users to update software
Yesterday's big bad news for Samsung — that a number of Galaxy Android devices were exposed to being hard-reset when their user clicked a link in the browser — is being quickly rectified by the Korean...
Amazon seeks to throw out Apple “app store” advertising claim
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has asked a federal judge to throw out Apple Inc's false advertising claim in a lawsuit challenging the online retailer's use of the “app store” name. — The claim is part ...
Trade group exposes 100,000 passwords for Google, Apple engineers
A breakdown of the 18 most common passwords exposed by IEEE suggest that engineers aren't much better than lay people at choosing secure passcodes. — Radu Dragusin — The world's largest profession...
Apple's A6 CPU actually clocked at around 1.3GHz, per new Geekbench report
As the initial wave of iPhone 5 reviews hit, it looked as if Apple's dual-core A6 processor was sporting a clock speed of around 1GHz. We saw reports (and confirmed with our own handset) ranging betw...
Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget
Heidi Steffen and her husband used to treat themselves most weeks to steak at Sodak Shores, a restaurant overlooking a lake near their hometown of Milbank, S.D. Then they each got an iPhone, and the r...
US calls Assange ‘enemy of state’
THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States - the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency. — Declassified US ...
CEOs on Twitter: Fear Makes Some Executives Leery of Social Media
Social-Media Gaffes Make Some Chiefs Leery of Twitter, but a Few Brave Ones Embrace It — When General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt tweeted for the first time this month, his “Hello Tw...
Tracking growth: the iTunes app store vs Google Play
There are now more than 675,000 apps available in Google Play, a noteworthy figure not for the number of apps, but because it means Android is now within striking distance of overtaking iOS as the mob...
Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO
Twitter is at a turning point, trying to roll out advertising while also maintaining the user experience. I sat down with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo at the company's new San Francisco headquarters to t...
Yet another Java flaw allows “complete” bypass of security sandbox
Java gets exposed, yet again. — Niall Kennedy — Researchers have discovered a Java flaw that would let hackers bypass critical security measures in all recent versions of the software.
Chrome Becomes A Better 3D Gaming Platform, Now Supports Pointer Lock
Google just launched a new stable version of Chrome today that adds supports for the Pointer Lock JavaScript API. The purpose of this API is pretty simple: in 3D games on the browser, for example …
Mobile Will Grab TV Advertising's Crown
Editor's note: Matt Cohler is a General Partner at Benchmark Capital. He's responsible for identifying investment opportunities in Internet-related companies in addition to working closely with compa...
Apple's iPhone 5 passes its first regulatory hurdle in China
It looks like Apple's got its iPhone 5 ducks in a row in China, after the device received a mandatory regulatory certification required before it goes on sale in the country. — Sina Tech noticed tha...
Boxee's Video-Sharing Service Cloudee Goes Public With Desktop Software, iPhone 5 Support & More
Today, Boxee is launching its private online video-sharing service known as Cloudee into a public beta. The NYC-based startup first introduced the service in the beginning of the summer …
Murdoch's Times unblocks search engines to seek new subscribers
In May 2010, News Corp.'s The Times newspaper said it would block search engines from indexing its stories, believing it must remove all possibility of free access as it introduced digital payments. ...
Samsung schedules strategy meeting with Google's Schmidt over Apple's Android war
Google chairman Eric Schmidt will meet with Samsung execs in South Korea this week, Samsung's mobile chief has revealed, in what's tipped to be an attempt to boost Google's involvement in Android liti...
Facebook Faces Lawsuits, Arbitration Over Its Initial Public Offering
Facebook Inc.'s botched initial public offering is turning into a potential legal morass for the social-networking firm, its investment bankers and the exchange on which it went public.
Google launches underwater Street View, a new virtual map of oceans
Today, Google Maps unveils a new Street View feature: underwater panoramic views of six special sea spots. The idea is to create a virtual map of the oceans, documenting the state of fragile ecosyste...
Texas Instruments lessens focus on mobile devices
Summary: U.S. chipmaker will not invest as much in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets as the market opportunity is “less attractive”, but will focus on industrial customers such as carmake...
Study: Android Owners “More Complacent” Than iOS Users When It Comes To Browser Choice
Most iPhone and Android owners overwhelmingly tend to use the default browser on their devices, though some have downloaded and use alternatives according to a new analysis from Chitika.