New BlackBerry Messenger will offer free voice calls over Wi-Fi, open beta starts today
RIM may be focusing most of its energy on the upcoming launch of the BlackBerry 10 OS, but it's also getting ready to roll out a major new feature to BlackBerry Messenger users.
Google TV: Now faster and easier
Last year, your Google TV received an update which added Google Play and simplified the entertainment discovery experience. Our next update makes finding whatever you want on Google TV even faster an...
Rumor: Release of new iMacs may be delayed into 2013
After Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed last month that there would be a “significant shortage” of the newly redesigned iMac, a report on Wednesday claims manufacturing difficulties may push back the all-in...
Samsung plans no settlement with Apple: executive
SEOUL — A top Samsung executive said that the South Korean electronics giant had no plans to follow Taiwanese firm HTC in seeking a settlement over its patent disputes with arch-rival Apple. — Samsu...
Skype plugs security hole letting anyone hijack accounts, says ‘small number’ of users affected
A number of hours after The Next Web revealed a flaw in the way Skype handled password resets, allowing third-parties to hijack accounts using just an email address, Skype has said that it has now fix...
Gartner: Android Accounted For 72% Of Smartphone Sales In Q3, Overall Sales Of Mobile Handsets Down 3%
Gartner has this morning published its numbers on the performance of the mobile handset industry in Q3. The topline figure is that the mobile industry overall continues to see pressure …
Facebook Stock Price Up 10.3 Percent On The Day And Climbing As Biggest Lockup Expires, Irrational Changes Are Over
Facebook share prices are up today, with shares at 21.07, 6.1 percent above yesterday's level — and still climing. Today the company is experiencing its biggest stock-lockup expiration …
Yoga PC Flips and Bends, but as a Tablet, It's Clumsy
Windows 8 presents a dilemma for PC makers. It contains two very different user interfaces: a touch-oriented, tablet-like one with clusters of tiles, full-screen apps and an on-screen keyboard; plus ...
Understanding Like-gate
Several prominent people are up in arms about Facebook charging for access to users who have already Liked their page. — I believe this debate is missing the big picture, and what we are in fact wit...
Chinese Authorities Putting Pressure on Businesses to Help Censor the Web
BEIJING — As the Chinese cyberpolice stiffened controls on information before the Communist Party leadership transition taking place this week, some companies in Beijing and nearby cities received ord...
Google Foretells Big Switch to Networks of the Future
In the summer of 1998, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were drafting an official business plan for the company they hoped to build around their Google search engine, they asked Guido Appenzeller for a...
Apple confirms first store in Rio de Janeiro Brazil as Istanbul, Turkey also preparing for Apple retail
Apple today emailed several Brazilian outlets to confirm the news that it would open an Apple retail store in the city. Translated: … The news comes after it was recently discovered …
Google Voice is broken in Android 4.2
We're hearing lots of rumblings about Google Voice issues with Android 4.2, starting with the early Nexus 4 review units that went out, but that could've been blamed on pre-release software. Well it ...
Adobe investigates alleged customer data breach
The information, published on Tuesday on Pastebin, includes hashed passwords, names and email addressses — Adobe said Wednesday it is investigating the release of 230 names, email addresses and encr...
Panasonic prepares for “garage sale”, to axe 10,000 jobs
(Reuters) - About a fifth of Panasonic Corp's (6758.T) 88 business units are losing money and only half so far meet a target for at least 5 percent operating margin, the Japanese electronics group's f...
Internet ban on convicted sex offender ‘unreasonable’, rule judges
Court of appeal's decision to uphold complaint over internet restriction could set precedent in hacking and fraud cases — Banning anyone from the internet is an “unreasonable” restriction, two appea...