Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder (Updated)
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is on the run from murder charges, Belize police say. According to Marco Vidal, head of the national police force's Gang Suppression Unit, McAfee is a prime suspect in t...
Email Location Data Led FBI to Uncover Top Spy's Affair
U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, presides over a re-enlistment and awards ceremony while visiting Soldiers of Task Force Mountain Warrior. Photo: U.S. Army Spc. Al...
Google Said to Face Ultimatum From FTC in Antitrust Talks
Google Inc. (GOOG) is being pressed by U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz to make an offer to settle the agency's antitrust investigation in the next few days or face a formal c...
HTC settlement may pay Apple $8 per phone, act as blueprint for Samsung & Motorola
Apple's out-of-court settlement with rival smartphone maker HTC is expected to give Apple a net licensing fee of as much as $8 per phone, and may also serve as a blueprint for future deals with Samsun...
BlackBerry 10 Launch Event to be held on January 30th, 2013
One of my favorite things about working as a community and blog manager for BlackBerry ® is getting to talk to you and provide updates on our products. Each day on our social channels fans, followers...
Microsoft to deliver SharePoint apps for Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS starting in early 2013
Summary: Microsoft is readying two new companion apps for SharePoint that will work on Windows 8, Windows Phone and iOS devices starting early next year. — Microsoft is working …
Introducing Popcorn Maker
Brett Gaylor launching Popcorn Maker at the Mozilla Festival this morning — Today at the Mozilla Festival, we're extremely proud to launch the 1.0 version of Popcorn Maker, a free web app that makes...
Changing Channels: YouTube Will Pull the Plug on at Least 60 Percent of Its Programming Deals
YouTube has helped fund about 160 “channels” as part of a new strategy to make the video site more TV-like. — And just like the TV world, YouTube isn't going to renew all of last season's programs.
Samsung reportedly raising iPhone and iPad processor prices by a fifth
Samsung has made no secret of the fact that it provides a number of the key components inside Apple's flagship iPhone and iPad devices, even while actively competing against them with its own Galaxy l...
SMS traffic and revenues decline for the first time ever in U.S., Chetan Sharma says
U.S. mobile operators raked in third quarter 2012 data revenues of $19.9 billion, up 3 percent quarter-over-quarter and 17 percent year-over-year—despite suffering their first-ever decline …
Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 preview coming tomorrow
Last month, Microsoft finally broke silence and announced that a preview version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 will be coming in mid-November. It appears that tomorrow will be the day when Mi...
Google announces 11.6-inch Acer C7 Chromebook with 3.5 hours of battery life, for just $199
Google today announced the $199 Acer C7 Chromebook, available tomorrow in the US on Google Play, BestBuy.com, and rolling out this week in select Best Buy stores.
Look Out, New York: Randi Zuckerberg Is Casting for a New Techcentric Bravo Show Set in the Big Apple
With 634,000 viewers tuning in for last week's premiere of Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, newly-minted Bravo TV producer Randi Zuckerberg already has her sights set on New York.
On not being boring: A dramatic reading of Apple's share price
Apple's renaissance began with the iPod. This was not evident right away however. The product was unveiled on October 23, 2001 at a time when Apple's share price had just fallen 70% from year-earlie...
Twitter snags former Google Deputy General Counsel Nicole Wong for legal team
Twitter has scored a nice get for its legal team with the addition of former Google VP and Deputy General Counsel Nicole Wong. Wong joins the team as legal director today, which already sports severa...
iPhone 5 Apple online store shipping time drops from 3-4 weeks to 2-3 weeks
Apple updated the iPhone 5 section of its online store to show shipping estimates for the handset have improved from “3 -4 weeks” to “2 -3 weeks”. The iPhone 5 has seen shipping delays since it first...
Some LTE iPads getting delivered as early as Friday, Nov. 16
Late last week, Apple started notifying customers that orders of LTE iPad minis would begin shipping within 5 business days. Those same customers were also reporting updated shipping times ranging fr...
HTC One X+ and One VX available on AT&T November 16th, priced at $199 and $50
AT&T announced this afternoon that the HTC One X+ and One VX will be available on its network beginning November 16th, with One X+ pre-orders beginning November 13th both online and in-store.
AT&T to offer Samsung's Galaxy Camera for $500 starting Nov. 16
AT&T just announced the Samsung Galaxy Camera would land Nov. 16 for $499.99 with or without a data plan. — The Galaxy Camera is Samsung's first 4G-connected camera to marry point-and-shoot technolo...
Louis C.K. Comes Back to HBO, but Doesn't Ditch the Web, Either
Last year Louis C.K. earned the love of the Internet by cutting out the middlemen and selling his comedy special directly to his fans, over the Internet. — Other comedians — and at least one start-u...
Apple improves first-run Passbook experience in iOS 6.1 beta 2
A new beta version of iOS 6.1 has been seeded to developers today, and it includes a better, more explanatory first-run Passbook experience for users. The updated Passbook app now features a card tha...
Apple Gives In to Employee Perks
CEO Tim Cook Pushes Employee-Friendly Benefits Long Shunned by Steve Jobs — When it comes to keeping employees happy, Apple Inc. appears to be taking some inspiration from Google Inc. — Earlier th...
Facebook insiders could sell 773 million shares Wednesday
The largest set of employee stock shares since the company's IPO can be sold this week as another stock “lockup” expiration date passes. — The largest set of Facebook stock shares available since Ma...
Australian wins $208k from Google for defamation
Google was ordered to pay Aus$200,000 (US$208,000) in damages to an Australian Monday after a jury found the Internet giant defamed him by publishing material linking him to mobsters. — Milorad Trku...
A billion dollar software tech company is founded every 3 months *in U.S.
Ron Conway once said: “There's a billion company created every 3 months. Now, it is every 2 months”. I finally got the chance compile “The Billion Dollar” list. I tried to limit this list to only s...
Microsoft Announces Leadership Changes to Drive Next Wave of Products
Steven Sinofsky to leave the company; Windows executives Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller take expanded roles. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sino...
HTC to Pay Licensing Fees to Apple
TAIPEI—HTC Corp. will have to pay licensing fees to Apple Inc. as part of its settlement agreement with the California-based company, a person familiar with the situation said Monday. — Although it ...
Murder Suspect John McAfee: I'm Innocent
As Belizean police combed the property of expat antivirus pioneer John McAfee Sunday afternoon, McAfee was closer than they could have known. He'd seen them coming, and says he hid — burying himself ...
With Kim Dotcom's Me.ga plans scuppered, soon-to-relaunch Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
After his dreams of a Me.ga domain were shot down by Gabon's government, Kim Dotcom's soon-to-relaunch Mega service has finally found its place online after the German confirmed that the Mega holding ...
Skype Preview for Windows Phone 8 is now available! Hands on video.
Oh what a weekend it has been. With the launch of Windows Phone 8 on AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile expected in the next week, it has been quite exciting but now it is coming to full steam with the re...
Steve Ballmer: first Surface sales are “modest”; hypes Windows 8 Pro version
When Microsoft started taking pre-orders of its new Windows RT-based Surface tablet in late October, it appeared that sales of the device were pretty high, thanks to high back order numbers.
Apple Stomps On Tapjoy's App Download Circle Jerk (Again)
Memories of Scamville have faded, and we don't see the brazen customer ripoff schemes from the big gaming companies these days. — But the main company behind Scamville, Offerpal (the company renamed...
Demonoid Is Back, BitTorrent Tracker is Now Online
When Demonoid went down at the end of July the site's admin blamed a DDoS attack. This initial attack resulted in a series of problems that were not easy to fix. — However, at the time the tech adm...
j2 Global buys tech media company Ziff Davis for $167 million in cash
Well, well, well. It turns out Ziff Davis will live on to die another day. The technology media company has been acquired by j2 Global, a business cloud services provider, for roughly $167 million i...
Starbucks, Amazon and Google to face UK lawmakers over tax
(Reuters) - UK lawmakers will quiz executives of Starbucks (SBUX.O), Google (GOOG.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) on Monday about how they have managed to pay only small amounts of tax in Britain while racking...
Cray's Titan system takes supercomputer crown
Summary: Titan is a Cray XK7 system that hit 17.59 Petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. Titan features 560,640 processors, including 261,632 Nvidia K20x accelerator cores. — Larry Dignan — The Oa...
Verizon confirms Droid DNA on its Droid Does portal, promises ‘unboxing’ on November 19th
Last we checked, there are about six days between Verizon / HTC's press event in New York City and November 19th. Which, by most counts, should be just enough time for the two companies …
Obama 2.0 will revitalize tech agenda
The reelection of President Barack Obama along with another politically divided Congress means the tech policy battles from the past few years are going to intensify, even if a few of the faces fighti...
Along With New Homepage, Yahoo Also Set to Launch a “Gmail-Like” Email Reboot to Slow Gmail Gains
According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is prepping to launch a major overhaul of Yahoo Mail — which sources said has a cleaner, “more Gmail-like” look.
Facebook Tests Ranked Comments to Boost Engagement
Facebook is testing a new comments format on brand and subscriber pages by placing the most engaging comments up higher on posts, the company confirmed on Monday. — “We are testing a new format for ...