New Photos of 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Show Battery Layout, Ports, and More
Earlier this week, we pointed to a forum thread [Google translation] at Chinese site WeiPhone.com sharing a pair of photos of what was said to be the display assembly from Apple's upcoming 13-inch Ret...
Estimated prices on 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros: Starts around U$1,699
Alongside the new mini/iPads, Mac Minis, and iMacs, Apple will reveal a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display on Oct. 23. We have now received pricing information on the base model and the “best” m...
Google Weighs Mobile-Patent Antitrust Settlement
Google Inc. is weighing whether to settle a potential claim by U.S. authorities that it violated antitrust law in the way it handles mobile-device patents, according to a person familiar with the matt...
Apple starts work on massive Prineville data center
Apple has begun work on the first, $68 million phase of its new Prineville data center, clearing and flattening land for the one of two, 338,000 square-foot buildings atop the bluff that overlooks tow...
Waze Is The Only App To Gain Meaningful Marketshare After Apple Maps Fail, Onavo Finds
The poor reception for Apple's new maps app temporarily boosted usage for other map applications. But it didn't actually increase longer-term marketshare for any of them — except for one.
New Samsung Chromebook also available with 3G for $329.99
We were under the impression that Google's new Samsung Chromebook would only be able to hook up to the internet via Wi-Fi, but it seems that something got lost in the announcement. A 3G model will in...
Money Troubles: What Happens When Kickstarters Fail?
Since Kickstarting games became a thing, everyone has soothsayed the possibility of how it could go wrong. There are two significant ways, really. A high profile game comes out, and is a big pile of...
Watch Reddit's Biggest Troll Defend Himself
Michael Brutsch, a 49-year-old man who posted on Reddit under the name Violentacrez until Gawker's Adrian Chen outed him, went on Anderson Cooper 360 to defend himself on camera for the first time. —...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Windows 8 is ‘the end of Windows’
NEW YORK CITY — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, always game for a little tech trash talk, said that Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system would be “the end of Windows” and that “Windows is irrelevant.”
Airtime, a Pedigreed Start-Up, Is Struggling
It sounds like a recipe for success for a new start-up: Two famed entrepreneurs, tens of millions of dollars in the bank and endorsements from celebrities like Alicia Keys and Jim Carrey. — But Airt...
Is Pheed the New Twitter?
Miley Cyrus seems to think so. As does Ashley Tisdale, David Guetta, Paris Hilton, Chris Brown, and thousands of others who have joined the site in a matter of days. — So what is Pheed? — In shor...
Minnesota bans Coursera: State takes bold stand against free education
Honorable mentions go to New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission for driving out Uber's online taxi-hailing service and to automobile dealers' groups in four states for trying to have Tesla deal...
Microsoft Stores giving out Surface reservation passes
Looks like if you live near a Microsoft Store or even a pop-up holiday kiosk you can stop by and get a reservation card good for one Surface RT come October 26th. — The info comes via our forums whe...
iCloud: Sharing done wrong
Despite the prominent addition of sharing features in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion, the company's concept of “sharing” is actually a narrow one. And in an increasingly interconnected era—when people are s...
Microsoft offers only one-year Surface warranty, despite EU law
Summary: Microsoft is offering only one-year warranty for the enterprise-favored Surface tablet, while EU law dictates it should be “at least two.” Didn't Apple recently get stung for this kind of be...
Brazilian newspapers leave Google News en masse
Brazil's main newspapers abandoned Google News after the world's top search engine refused to compensate them for the rights to their headlines. The mass rush started last year when the National Asso...
Google Adds 25 Million New Building Footprints To Google Maps On Desktop And Mobile
Google just announced that it has added 25 million new building footprints to Google Maps. Most of the company's recent announcement around mapping had to do with flashy updates like 3D maps and buil...
Google Play Store carrier billing coming to Verizon in ‘the coming weeks’
Earlier this year Sprint began supporting carrier billing for the Google Play Store, allowing customers to purchase apps, movies, or music, and have the charges end up on their phone bill.
Ultra High Definition officially replaces 4K
The Consumer Electronics Association has announced that the consumer name for 4K will be Ultra HD and gears up for displays to be shown off at next year's CES in Las Vegas. — The display format form...
Microsoft promises better IMAP support in Outlook 2013
Previous versions of Microsoft's Outlook email client have not pleased users who have been waiting for more support for the Internet Message Access Protocol, better known as IMAP. Indeed, the recentl...
Bitten: Apple's ‘blasphemous’ logo under fire in Russia
Some Russian Orthodox Christians see the iconic logo as a symbol of sin that they would like to see outlawed. — You might make the case that Apple is sinful based on the gluttony for gadgets it insp...
Yahoo to exit South Korea in first Asian pullout
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's South Korean operation said on Friday it will quit the country, underscoring its struggle against Google Inc and local competitors expanding aggressively into mobile advertisin...
Distimo Launches Daily App Leaderboard & AppIQ Service
App store analytics firm Distimo is rebranding its cross-platform app tracking service known as Distimo Monitor to Distimo Analytics today, and adding a new data service …
Samsung Galaxy S III hitting MetroPCS next Monday for $499 off-contract
We got tipped off way back in August and managed to get a little hands-on time with the variant, and now that October is well under way, MetroPCS is offering up some more info on its Galaxy S III offe...
Sony to start Xperia upgrades to Jelly Bean by mid-Q1, rules out all 2011 phones
We've got mixed news for those who were wondering just where Sony's Jelly Bean updates were headed. The good? Sony has narrowed down its upgrade schedule for the Xperia T, Xperia TX and Xperia V to ...
Systrom on Andreessen Horowitz: Of course I was furious, but it made everyone work harder
No one likes to be told that the thing they're the most passionate about isn't worthwhile. Least of all, an entrepreneur who's pouring their soul into a venture in lieu of taking a more cushy traditi...
Sony closes Japan factory, cuts 2,000 jobs
Summary: The consumer electronics giant has cut another 2,000 jobs in Japan as the firm continues its battle against a cash hemorrhaging problem after weaker than expected first-quarter results. — Z...