Jobs's Spaceship-Like Apple Offices to Arrive Later Than Planned
Apple Inc. (AAPL) said the construction of a new spaceship-like headquarters with a circular design in Cupertino, California, won't be completed until mid-2016, later than originally projected, as the...
Samsung accuses iPad mini of patent infringement in latest legal salvo
Samsung successfully added the iPhone 5 to its newest patent battle with Apple, and today the company accused several more of Cupertino's products of infringement — including the iPad mini.
Deloitte Denies Knowledge of Fraud at Autonomy
Deloitte is finally speaking up about Autonomy P.L.C. — and the accounting firm says it knew nothing about potential fraud at its onetime client. — The statement by Deloitte comes after Autonomy's p...
The Red Flags That Were Obvious — To Some — In the HP-Autonomy Deal
To Some — In the HP-Autonomy Deal — The one big, glaring question that will probably never be fully answered in the still-developing HP-Autonomy scandal is this: If buying Autonomy has so obviously...
U.S. Said to Waver on Antitrust Case Against Google
Google Inc. (GOOG) may skirt the most serious antitrust allegations under investigation by the U.S. as regulators waver on whether they can prove consumers are hurt by the way the company ranks its se...
Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC Windows Phone 8X Are Great, and Yet
Thanksgiving, is it? I'll tell you what I'm thankful for: competition. — Because competition drives innovation. Innovation leads to improvement. Improvement begets happiness. — In the tech worl...
Apple has solved its iPhone 5 supply problems - just in time
Ship times hit 2 weeks Tuesday and a spot check found it at 9 out of 10 of Apple stores — FORTUNE — Despite stock-outs, production hiccups and Foxconn worker unrest, it looks like Apple (AAPL) will ...
Lotus: Farewell to a Once-Great Tech Brand
Wolfgang Gruener of Tom's Hardware alerted me to a bit of news that, while minor, has left me in a wistful mood. IBM is planning to remove the Lotus branding from its Notes and Domino workgroup produ...
FCC chairman backs Dish Network plan to compete with wireless giants
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday proposed to greenlight Dish Network's long-fought plan to create a wireless service that would compete with those of giants AT&T and Ve...
Artists Being Asked to Prepare for iTunes 11 Launch in “Next Days”
According to a post on the MacRumors Forums, Apple is asking record labels to submit pictures and galleries of their artists to iTunes for use in iTunes 11's new Music Store layout. — This email was...
AT&T Seems to Be Extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular to All Customers
AT&T appears to be quietly extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular capabilities to all their iPhone customers. Earlier this month, AT&T announced that they would allow any customer “with an LTE device” on a...
Verizon FiOS Mobile app for iPad updated with streaming access to 75 channels
The first time we saw Verizon's FiOS Mobile app for the iPad, it was showing off the ability to stream live TV channels directly to the tablet. Unfortunately when it was released later in 2010 that f...
NTSB May Drop BlackBerrys for iPhones, Citing Reliability
Research In Motion Ltd. may be losing another U.S. government customer, but this time the reason isn't fickle employees who prefer to carry around an iPhone. — The National Transportation Safety Boa...
Apple's “iMessage” is now a Registered Trademark
Apple's iMessage was first introduced by Scott Forstall at their World Wide Developer Conference in June 2011. Then in February 2012, Apple announced that iMessage was going to replace iChat in OS X ...
Security Hole Allows Pirates to Get a Legitimate Windows 8 Activation for Free
A new security hole has been discovered in Microsoft's product activation process that allows pirates to get a free legitimate activation of Windows 8 using the current Windows Media Center upgrade pr...
BitTorrent updates uTorrent beta for Android with Wi-Fi only option
BitTorrent has released a small but important update to its µTorrent client for Android: Wi-Fi support. You can download the new version now from the official Google Play store. — Version 1.13′s ch...
Microsoft ‘Xbox TV’ device due in 2013 with casual gaming and streaming
A set-top box to compete with Apple TV and others — Microsoft is building an Xbox set-top box. Multiple sources familiar with Redmond's plans have confirmed to The Verge that the company plans to i...
No More Lulz: Should Weev, the World's Most Notorious Troll, Go to Jail for ‘Hacking’?
Hacking is really about making things better, but it's also about causing havoc, and Andrew Auernheimer's most infamous hack sits somewhere between the two. But according to a federal court in New Je...
Google's Eric Schmidt Tells Parents To ‘Have Online Talk Before Sex Talk’ With Kids. Survey Suggests Many Do.
“We need to fight for our privacy or we will lose it,” said Google chairman Eric Schmidt to Reuters in a recent on-camera chat. “[All of the user generated material on the web] …
Hulu Plus Launching on Nintendo Wii U with Integrated Second Screen Experience
At Hulu's development center in Seattle, we spend our time focusing on making the Hulu Plus living room experience delightful for our subscribers. With our latest innovation, we've teamed up with Nin...
Feds aim to kill .Army, other military domains
Demand Media wants to run three military domain extensions that — big surprise — Uncle Sam isn't too happy about. — Here's a cyberfight it seems anyone could have seen coming. — Among the hundreds...
Global government panel files web domain objections
New domains due for introduction next year by Icann - including .islam and .casino - may face delays after GAC protests — Plans to introduce a string of new web domains - including .islam and .movie...
Umano wants to tell you the news, literally
As a Bay Area resident, I think I can speak for most when I say: BART is awful. The Bay Area Rapid Transit pales in comparison to other metropolis' public transportation trains. It's overly crowded ...
HTC DROID DNA now available from Verizon for $199
We loved it. You might too. Today, the HTC DROID DNA is officially available from Verizon Wireless for $199 on two-year contract. For those that need a spec refresh, the DNA features a 5-inch, 1080...
Security firm showcases vulnerabilities in SCADA software, won't report them to vendors
The vulnerability information will be sold to private buyers as part of a commercial service, the company says — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src= 'http …
Facebook confirms it is testing Upcoming Events and Recently Released Albums in the News Feed
Facebook is testing at least two new features in its News Feed: Upcoming Events and Recently Released Albums, though it won't go into detail on either of them. “We're always testing new features,” a ...
Apple and HTC fine with showing license agreement to Samsung — but not the royalty rate
but not the royalty rate — On Friday Samsung's counsel in the Apple case in California brought a motion to compel, demanding access to the newly-minted Apple-HTC license agreement that settled Apple'...
Black Friday: Catalyst for Tablets to Far Surpass Notebook Shipments in North America
This year's Black Friday is expected to be the catalyst for tablets to pass notebook shipments for the first time in North America, a trend which we expect to continue for the foreseeable future.
The Oatmeal sued over trademark by “Oatmeal Studios”
It's only been a few months since webcomic artist Matthew Inman, operating under the name The Oatmeal, was able to put his bizarre legal clash with competing humor website FunnyJunk to rest. — Now I...
Facebook Asks Users If It Can Abolish Their Right To Vote On Future Site Governance Changes
Today Facebook will send its largest email blast to date, informing all 1 billion users that it's proposing to modify the site's governance structure and remove the ability for users to vote on change...