Apple is partnering with Broadcom to bring super-fast 802.11ac networking to upcoming Macs
While it's believed that Apple's 2013 Mac lineup will feature the same designs as their late-2012 counterparts, they are set to include a range of updated internal features and hardware.
Is Apple Plotting A Route To A Waze Acquisition? Rumours On The Road Point To Yes
There can be no doubt that one of the hottest startups of the last couple of years has been social sat-nav smartphone app Waze. Not surprising in an era when - largely due to Apple initially dumping ...
Vehicle rental giant Avis acquires car sharing company Zipcar for $500 million
Happy New Year, and welcome to the ongoing rise of the sharing economy. — Vehicle rental services company Avis Budget Group (Avis) today announced that it has agreed to acquire car sharing network Z...
Samsung Loses Bid to Seal Sales Data in Apple Dispute
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) lost a bid to keep sales data of some of its products sealed in a U.S. patent dispute with Apple Inc. — U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose yesterday denied Sam...
Intel's Push Into Web TV Hits Delays
Intel Corp.'s effort to develop an Internet-based TV service and associated hardware is taking longer than expected, people familiar with the company's plans say, in part due to delays in reaching con...
Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project
David Karp is in the midst of a rite of passage that seems universal for the young tycoons of the Internet's social era: He's buying himself a proper swank pad. And like Mark Zuckerberg's luxe but do...
Google Requires People to Use the Google+ Social Network, Gains Ground Against Facebook
Google Inc. is gaining ground against Facebook Inc. thanks to a controversial tactic: requiring people to use the Google+ social network. — Google over the past year has boosted the Google+ operatio...
Sprint Will Begin Pay As You Go Service On January 25th, But Standard Sprint Phones Aren't Invited To The Party
If you want to use Sprint's network without signing a contract, there are a lot of options out there, including its subsidiary Boost Mobile, the American MVNO Virgin, and hybrid provider Republic Wire...
Putting 2012 To Bed
I'm typing this on my phone as our plane is starting to descend into the NY metro area. We will land at JFK within the hour. — I've wanted to write a year end post for days. I actually wrote one a...
Walt Mossberg Look Ahead to 2013 - Talk Gets Cheaper, TV Gets Smarter
Personal technology never stops changing. Some new products and services are game changers, like Apple's iPhone and iPad. Others are clever twists or refinements, like each successive version of Goo...
Court dismisses Apple's case against Amazon for use of ‘App Store’ name
In September, Amazon asked a California court to dismiss Apple's 2011 lawsuit against the company regarding the “App Store” trademark. Today, Bloomberg reports via a tweet that the court has dismisse...
Andrew Sullivan's Ad-Free Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In First Six Hours
When political blogger Andrew Sullivan announced this morning that he's leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the most provocative bit of news was his in...
Polaroid to launch Fotobar stores designed to print photos from our smartphones
Photography giant Polaroid plans to open at least ten new retail stores this year focused on getting people to print and edit the photos saved on their smartphone, or uploaded to social networks such ...
Imation Buys Nexsan For $120M To Beef Up Its SME Enterprise Storage Business
Some consolidation in the world of enterprise storage to kick off the new year: the storage and data security giant Imation Corp. has acquired Nexsan Corporation, a specialist in disk-based storage sy...