Spotify suspends music download service in the UK
EXCLUSIVE: No longer supporting purchases — Spotify is no longer allowing users to buy music through its streaming service, Pocket-lint has discovered. — When trying to buy tracks, even Premium su...
Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger
Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but analyst Benedict Evans found a way to uncover them and they provide critical insight into the direction and performance of Facebook's mobile ...
Keeping Safari a secret
For much of the time we spent developing Safari — long before it was called by that name — it pretended to be Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, Internet Explorer for Mac, which Apple had pro...
Let Jason Kilar Take a Bow
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is headed out the door, as is CTO Rich Tom. Other employees at the video site are going soon, as well. — None of that is surprising, and if you're trying to figure out what tha...
Samsung expected to widen smartphone lead over Apple this year
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is expected to widen its lead over Apple Inc in global smartphone sales this year with 35 percent growth, helped by a broad product lineup, market researcher Str...
OS X Mountain Lion Now Accounts For A Majority Share Of Mac Web Traffic, Growing Nearly Twice As Fast As Lion
OS X Mountain Lion, or version 10.8 as it's known according to Apple's numbering system, accounted for 32 percent of all web traffic measured by Net Applications, a firm that charts OS share and other...
Amazon Prime Instant Video adds A&E, History, and Lifetime after Netflix's deal falls through
Months after Netflix users lose access, Amazon strikes a deal with A&E — Amazon's Prime Instant Video streaming service is continuing to fill out its selection with today's announcement …
Google Play will hit a million apps in June (probably sooner than the iOS app store)
I think we're well past the time when number of apps is the defining factor of a mobile ecosystem, at least if you're Apple or Google. Perhaps not so much if you're Windows Phone or RIM.
Surface Pro release date set for late January
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is set to go on sale in late January. After unveiling the pricing for its Windows 8 tablet late last year, Microsoft has remained relatively quiet about the exact timin...
Flextronics CEO Sees Hope for U.S. Tech Production
The CEO of Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore-based company that helped hundreds of firms move manufacturing of electronic parts and products to Asia, says it is getting “easier to justify” p...
The E-Reader Revolution: Over Just as It Has Begun?
The e-reader era just arrived, but now it may be ending. — Dedicated devices for reading e-books have been a hot category for the past half-dozen years, but the shrinking sizes and falling prices of...
Google Play Adds “Free for Print Subscribers” Option for Play Magazines
For people who actually read magazines on their tablets, this news is huge. Recently, Google has enabled the ability for paper magazine subscribers to transfer their subscriptions to the cloud and re...
Forrester Report Says Apple Will Sell $39 Billion In Macs and iPads To Businesses Over Next 2 Years
Forrester Research is reporting that Apple will sell $39 billion in Macs and iPads through 2014. — According to the firm's latest report, Apple will sell $7 billion worth of Macs …
RCA's upcoming Mobile TV Tablet features two tuners for live television broadcasts
RCA has announced that it will be launching a Mobile TV Tablet with a pair of tuners for those who want to watch live television on the go. Priced at $299 and set for release in the spring …
Kim Dotcom: US “planted” evidence to obtain illegal search warrants
Kim Dotcom living large in happier times. — Handout — Megaupload has accused US investigators of “planting” evidence the government used to prove that Megaupload knowingly kept copyrighted files o...
Netflix open sources tool to clean up your AWS cloud
Those Netflix engineers are at it again — releasing source code to an in-house tool they use to keep their Amazon Web Services pared down and tidy. Janitor Monkey is a tool they use to automate the d...
CinemaNow or never: Rovi puts its digital movie store up for sale
After having spent $720 million on it two years ago, Rovi announced Thursday that it intends to sell its Rovi Entertainment Store digital video platform, which was formerly known as CinemaNow.
AWS Management Console Improvements - Tablet and Mobile Support
Managing your AWS resources has become easier and more direct over the years! Let's do a quick recap before we dig in: — We launched Amazon SQS (2004) and Amazon S3 (2006) as pure APIs, with no tool...
Best Buy Complains About Walmart's iPhone 5 Holiday Sale, Claims $65,000 Profit Loss in One Day
The Wall Street Journal notes that several retailers including Best Buy and Toys “R” Us have complained to attorneys general in a handful of states about advertising practices of Walmart.
US frowns on Eric Schmidt's North Korea trip
The U.S. Department of State has described the timing of a proposed visit by Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and others to North Korea as not “particularly helpful” in view of the Asian count...
Euclid launches Google Analytics style measurement for brick and mortar stores via WiFi
Analytics provider Euclid is launching no-hardware solution Euclid Zero for brick and mortar shops to monitor customer behaviour and make better decisions about things like window displays and store l...
Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated)
Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government's internet controls, according to censorship monitor...
Samsung, LG Display Fined by China for Fixing LCD Panel Prices
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and LG Display Co. (034220), the world's biggest makers of flat panels, were among six companies fined by China's government for participating in a price-fixing scheme...
HTC Vows to Step Up Innovation
TAIPEI—The head of HTC Corp. said the beleaguered Taiwanese smartphone maker didn't market their products aggressively enough last year, but vowed to win consumers back by developing more innovative p...