Thanksgiving Day retail traffic increased 71% in 2012
Thanksgiving Day online traffic increased 71% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 181 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top re...
LG admits reason behind dropping 4G in Nexus 4
Because it's secretly another phone … The redundant 4G chip in the Nexus 4 caused confusion, but now LG has told TechRadar why it's there. — The presence of the LTE connectivity hardware in the Nexu...
Apple adds six Samsung products including Note II, S III mini and Galaxy Tab 2 to California lawsuit
Both Apple and Samsung keep exercising their rights under the Northern District of California's permissive rules governing the timing of infringement contentions.
Former Nokia exec Damian Dinning announces he's headed to Jaguar Land Rover
The sudden departure of Nokia imaging head Damian Dinning caught many by surprise earlier today, but now he's announced where his next post will be: Jaguar Land Rover. In an explanation posted at Pur...
Gaza violence leads lawmakers to call for shuttering terror groups on Twitter
The past week's violence in Gaza has rekindled calls for Twitter to shutter the accounts of U.S.-labeled terror groups such as Hamas. — Seven House Republicans asked the FBI in September to demand t...
What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?
Travel is among the most pivot-friendly categories in the startupland. What happens when a well-liked-but-limited app, focused on a nice but commodity niche, attempts to pivot into a larger company, ...
Windows Phone Team: This is No Way to Treat Early Adopters
Once seen as a nice gesture, Windows Phone 7.8 is now seen for what it is — When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7.8 in June, I knew it was too good to be true. At the time, it seemed like Micros...
Droidfooding: After Years Of Giving Employees iPhones, Posters At Facebook HQ Beg Them To Test Android
“In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily”, a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for ...
Conceived in Haste, India's Internet Law Now Targeted for Change
Civil rights activists, free speech advocates, lawyers and politicians have spoken out in recent days against India's controversial Internet laws, after two women were arrested in Mumbai for criticizi...
G.E. Looks to Industry for the Next Digital Disruption
SAN RAMON, Calif. — When Sharoda Paul finished a postdoctoral fellowship last year at the Palo Alto Research Center, she did what most of her peers do — considered a job at a big Silicon Valley compan...
Pakistani Google, Yahoo!, Apple, eBay, PayPal Sites Hacked
The Pakistani websites of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Visa, HSBC, Coca Cola, Blogspot, Sony, HP, eBay and PayPal have been hacked and defaced. — According to The Hackers Media, the sites have b...
Can Police Locate Wireless Internet Moochers Without a Warrant?
Beware, wireless Internet moochers. A federal court in Pittsburgh has ruled that the government can track you to your location, sans search warrant, using free anti-moocher software. — The courts h...