T-Mobile CEO confirms the iPhone and the death of phone subsidies
T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere confirmed that the iPhone will be among the Apple products that T-Mobile sells next year, but he said that T-Mo will sell it in a far different way than other carriers.
Apple Hires Hacker Who Helped Save Windows From Security Hell
Apple has hired a noted computer security researcher who helped Microsoft lock down its Windows operating system. — Kristin Paget — formerly known as Chris Paget — now works on Apple's security team...
Google To Rein In Free Version Of Software
Google Inc. said it stopped offering its suite of Web-based software for businesses—known as Google Apps—free of charge to groups of 10 or fewer users, as it moves to generate revenue from previously ...
Netflix CEO Gets A Warning From The SEC Over A Facebook Post
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings got a Wells notice from the SEC. — A Wells notice comes when the SEC is giving a company a heads-up that it's likely to bring some sort of action against it. — In this ca...
Spotify debuts new Discovery engine, Collection, and Follow, which lets users follow friends and celebrities
At an event in New York City today, Spotify announced a new Discover section to help users find new music on the service. Ek admitted that users say Spotify is great …
Exclusive: Cloudera Closes Massive $65 Million Funding Round at $700 Million Valuation
Whenever you hear the phrase “big data” these days, and depending on whom you're talking to, the word Hadoop usually isn't far behind. When companies and large organizations seek to tackle the bigges...
FCC to FAA: Allow ‘greater use’ of electronic devices during flights
The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday pushed for wider in-flight use of electronic portable devices during airplane flights. — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called …
Facebook And Microsoft Are Working On A Deal, And It Could Change Everything About Advertising
Facebook and Microsoft are working on a deal that, if completed, would put Facebook one huge step closer to launching an ad network that could rival Google's in size, and change the way advertising is...
Washington Post Plans a Paywall
The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar wi...
No more blind refreshes: Techmeme now alerts you to new headlines
Are you the kind of Techmeme reader who reloads all day to check for new headlines? Well, we have good news: you can stop refreshing blindly, because Techmeme now automatically reports when there are...
AT&T Finally Gives Up On Their In-House CDN: Will Resell Akamai's CDN Services
In August I reported that AT&T was planning to shut down their in-house CDN and re-sell CDN services from Akamai or Limelight Networks and that Akamai would probably win the deal since they were willi...
Nokia Lumia 620 hands-on: $249 for Windows Phone 8 (video)
Surprising a few of us, Nokia yesterday revealed a brand new Windows Phone 8 device, the 3.8-inch Lumia 620, in an explosion of colors. As its naming convention goes, and at just $249, this is the ch...
California attorney general sues Delta Air Lines over smartphone app privacy policy
California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed suit Thursday against Delta Air Lines in her first enforcement action since she promised to crack down on companies that don't inform consumers about th...
Judge May Trim Apple's $1 Billion Patent Verdict
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to reduce a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics. — During a hearing in a San Jose federal courtroom,...
Apple CEO Tim Cook announces plans to manufacture Mac computers in USA
In an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at 10pm/9c on NBC's “Rock Center,” Apple CEO Tim Cook announced one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the Unite...
T-Mobile and Apple sign agreement to launch products in 2013
T-Mobile and Apple have entered an agreement and will be launching products beginning next year. The announcement was posted —nearly as an afterthought, oddly enough — as part of a press release in w...
Apple, Samsung Back in Court
Companies Battle Over $1.05 Billion Damages From Patent Trial's August Verdict — Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. return to a Silicon Valley courtroom Thursday, as Samsung fights to get a fede...
Meet Google+ Communities: Google's answer to Facebook Groups aimed at helping you meet new people
Google has launched a new feature to its social network, Google+, that will aid in meeting new people. It's called Google+ Communities and it's Google's attempt of competing against Facebook Groups.
They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead
We just got screwed. More on this below. — Nobody says “Web 2.0” anymore. The term just didn't stand the test of time, long ago it became cliched. — But a handful of years ago it had real meanin...
Deep Dive With Google's Snapseed Team: Android App Launches, iOS Is Free And Instagram Should Watch Out
One of the things that we hear the most from pundits when Google acquires a company, much like it did Nik Software, makers of the gorgeous and dead-simple to use app Snapseed, is “What will they end u...
Lenovo exec: We didn't realize how big touch would be
Gerry Smith, Lenovo's recently named president of the North America region, tells CNET that the industry underestimated demand for touch on computers. He also says Lenovo will eventually become the t...
Inside the IPO pipeline: It's all B2B, all of the time
It's shaping up to be an average year for initial public offerings, with about 125 companies listing shares to date. — But who are the up-and-comers in the technology industry that could break out i...
Apple's ranking in China smartphone market falls to No.6: IDC
(Reuters) - Apple Inc's rank in China's smartphone market, which is set to become the world's largest this year, fell to No.6 in the third quarter as it faced tough competition from Chinese brands, re...
SwiftKey Flow enters beta, bringing its Swype-style ‘gliding’ gesture keyboard to Android
Back in October we reported on SwiftKey's upcoming Flow feature, designed to bring ‘gliding’ gesture input to its Android keyboard app. And today, well, it's launching in beta to SwiftKey's 75,000 co...
Senator Al Franken reintroduces privacy act requiring user consent for location sharing
Senator Al Franken (D-MN), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, plans to reintroduce legislation that would require companies to obtain express consent from users b...
Patriot Act can “obtain” data in Europe, researchers say
European data stored in the “cloud” could be acquired and inspected by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, despite Europe's strong data protection laws, university researchers have suggest...
Nationwide Mutual hack leaves 1.1 million Americans' information exposed
More details are coming out about a massive October 3rd data breach at Nationwide Mutual Insurance. The company reported to the North Carolina Attorney General that as many as 1.1 million Americans' ...