Judge to review whether foreman in Apple v. Samsung hid info
A federal court will look into whether the jury foreman in Apple v. Samsung “concealed information” during jury selection. — Federal District Judge Lucy Koh will “consider the questions” of whether ...
Video game retail sales fall 25 percent year-on-year in 11th straight month of decline
The video game industry had a rough October — total sales across the board were $755.5 million, a drop of 25 percent year-on-year. Figures released by the NPD Group show that console sales falling 37...
Google TV brings music and movies to Europe on November 13th
Available in the UK, France, and Germany — Google blessed American Google TV owners with the ability to buy or rent content from Google Play last month, and now it's extending the same courtesy to i...
Apple donates $2.5 million to Hurricane Sandy relief
We just got the following email via an Apple employee from Tim Cook showing that the Cupertino company is looking after those on the other coast of the US. Apple will donate $2.5M to the Red Cross to...
Siri for travel, Desti, launches iPad app in public beta giving users their own “smart travel guide”
SRI International has produced some remarkable technologies over the years, with the more recent notables including Siri, Trapit, Nuance, and many others.
Microsoft's “Skype In The Workspace.” It's Like A Video-Based Quora
Thursday, Microsoft's Skype launched Skype In The Workspace, a service that combines elements of Quora and social networking to create an online space where entrepreneurs can seek knowledge from one a...
Exclusive: SEC left computers vulnerable to cyber attacks - sources
(Reuters) - Staffers at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to encrypt some of their computers containing highly sensitive information from stock exchanges, leaving the data vulnerable ...
How many startups will Facebook Gifts kill?
Each of the many, many gifting startups out there should have spent the summer reconsidering the future of their companies. Since buying Karma in May, Facebook has begun to testing out its social gif...
The Niantic Project: What Is Google Up To?
A “leaked” image from the Niantic Project, with a code written in Caesar cipher that translates into: “Every operation reaches a risk-assessment stage. At this point, my determination is that Niantic...
Peter Chernin Rounds Up Another $100 Million, This Time From Qatar
Peter Chernin, the longtime News Corp. executive who is now running his own media and technology fund, has landed another slug of investment money, this time from Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.
Family Feud: Tense Thanksgiving for Facebook and George Takei
Facebook's increasingly fraught relationship with small businesses just got more complicated thanks to celebrity user George Takei: The former Star Trek star will publish a book with a chapter taking ...
Microsoft adds Excel surveys to SkyDrive
Microsoft announced a couple of months ago that it planned to put in support for Excel surveys in its SkyDrive cloud service. Today, the company announced that this particular feature has finally bee...
Microsoft's Midori operating-system skunkworks project soldiers on
Summary: A new research paper makes a not-so-thinly-veiled reference to Microsoft's secret project to develop a non-Windows-based operating system and programming environment. — Midori — the Microso...
US imposes sanctions on Iran for Internet censorship
US government officials have been calling out Iran on its harsh treatment of bloggers and journalists for some time now. Now the US State Department is trying to put some teeth into those condemnatio...
China Telecom Prepares for iPhone 5
BEIJING—China Telecom Corp. plans to begin offering the iPhone 5 in late November or early December, which would mark the entry of Apple Inc.'s latest smartphone into China. — State-controlled China...
“Why the hell does this mouse need to connect to the Internet?”
To get the most out of this mouse, Razer says you need a “cloud-based driver.” — Razer — In this hyper-connected, networked world, many more of our devices are getting linked to the cloud, whether...
The Mess That Is Google Shopping
One of the things Google promised by moving Google Shopping to the pay-to-play model for merchants was how much the experience was going to improve for shoppers. If that's the case, I'm sure not seei...
Paul Allen's personal media browsing tool is now an iPad app for the rest of us
A new iPad app called Fayve, making its debut on Thursday, will join a crowded field of digital tools that help people discover movies and television shows. But this one is different …
Facebook Experiments With ‘Reply’ Button on Comments
Facebook isn't just testing a sound-alert function on the site — it's also experimenting with a reply option for comments posted to Timeline, a Facebook spokesperson has confirmed. — “We are testing...
ToyTalk, the AI toy company founded by Ex-Pixar talent, gets $11.5M from Charles Rivers Ventures
ToyTalk, the artificial intelligence toy company founded by ex-Pixar and SRI talent has recieved $11.5M in Series-A funding from Charles Rivers Ventures. The funding round was discovered …
After $368.2m award in patent lawsuit, VirnetX files another complaint against Apple
VirnetX, the Internet security software company that was awarded $368.2 million after a jury decided that Apple had infringed several of its patents, has filed another complaint against the Cupertino,...
Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me: Yahoo's Latest New Homepage Redesign Tries Dramatic Interactive Tile Look
Another week and yet another new design for the Yahoo homepage is being tested out on users — this time, it appears to be one (which you can see below) that looks a lot …