U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Google CIO To Unveil Free WiFi In NYC's Chelsea Neighborhood
Google has slowly been building up its service provider cred, with an ambitious fiber project in Kansas City and free WiFi initiatives through a partnership with Boingo.
Apple Working On a Less-Expensive iPhone
Apple Inc. is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped. — While Apple has explored such a device ...
Exclusive: A first look at Netflix's test of personalized profiles
Netflix recently started to test personalized profiles with a limited subset of its subscribers, allowing them to create a separate profile for each member of their family. The company has talked abo...
Microsoft confirms Messenger will be retired and users migrated to Skype on March 15
Microsoft on Tuesday mass emailed its 100 million+ Messenger users to let them know that the service is officially being retired on March 15, 2013. On that date, all users will be migrated to Skype …
Airbnb's growing pains mirrored in New York City, where half its listings are illegal rentals
Apartment rental site Airbnb's revolutionary simplicity has made it easy for tens of thousands of people to both list and discover lodging options in private residences and book them easily, quickly, ...
Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming
A rare and candid talk with Valve's boss — We just sat down for a rare and wide-ranging interview with Valve CEO Gabe Newell, who opened up to The Verge with details about the company's upcoming …
“The telephone network is obsolete”: Get ready for the all-IP telco
Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks and transition to what AT&T sees as an inevitability: the all-IP telco.
Google Withdraws Patent Claims Against Microsoft
Google today filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate its attempt to stop Microsoft from using video-compression technology on the Xbox. — Microsoft wants to license two stand...
Tablet PC Market Forecast to Surpass Notebooks in 2013, NPD DisplaySearch Reports
Tablet PC shipments are expected to reach more than 240 million units worldwide in 2013, easily exceeding the 207 million notebook PCs that are projected to ship, according to NPD DisplaySearch Quarte...
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit
A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the “Mark of the Beast” because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip has lost her federal court bid Tuesda...
The new guard: Look at who is buying technology companies now
A few days ago, I pointed out the inevitability of the Internet and how it was going to play an increasing role in the companies that have traditionally not been classified as technology companies.
Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation
One of the magical things about Twitter is that it opens a window to the world in real-time. An event happens, and seconds later, people share it across the planet. — Consider, for example, what ha...
This 15-Year-Old Built An App To Help His High School Debate Team. It Could Do Much More Than That
Tanay Tandon, high school sophomore, put out a Flipboard-like app last week called Clipped. What's it like to be a teen prodigy hacker juggling the demands of high school?
Broadcom chip ushers in H.265 and UltraHD video
The H.265 video standard, aka HEVC or MPEG-5, squeezes more pixels over a network connection to support new high-resolution 4K TVs. Broadcom's chip supports both and is due to arrive in volume next y...
Apple CEO Tim Cook meets high-level officials, US ambassador on visit to China
While Google chairman Eric Schmidt is enjoying a much-criticised visit to North Korea, Apple is coordinating an Asia visit of its own, after its CEO Tim Cook met with China's Minister of Industry and ...
Sony Goes Big Into 4K: OLED Ultra HD, 4K Video Service and Consumer Camcorder
Image: Sony. — LAS VEGAS — You're not surprised, are you? Sony took the stage this evening at its press conference at CES 2013 to unveil a whole array of electronics, including, yes, a 4K TV.
Valve and Xi3's ‘Steam Box’ codenamed Piston, early specs detailed at CES
The “Steam Box” modular computer announced by hardware maker Xi3 and Valve at CES is codenamed “Piston” and is modeled after the PC maker's X7A line of pint-sized computers, Xi3 reps tell Polygon.
AT&T sold a record 10m smartphones in Q4 2012, helped by best-ever sales of Android and Apple devices
US operator AT&T announced today a new for sales of smartphones by the company, after it saw sales top the 10 million unit market for the first time in its history in the fourth quarter of 2012 …
Target will now price-match Amazon, other retailers year-round
Matching Amazon's pricing during the holidays is one thing, but Target today announced it plans to continue the practice on a year-round basis. The extended policy will apply to competitors other tha...
Chinese man pleads guilty in $100 million stolen software sting
(Reuters) - In a case U.S. officials say is the first of its kind, a Chinese businessman pleaded guilty Monday to selling stolen American software used in defense, space technology and engineering - p...
FreedomPop, textPlus team up to offer freemium voice, SMS service
FreedomPop is delivering on its promise to become a voice as well as mobile data provider. At CES 2013, it revealed it's partnering with IP voice and messaging startup textPlus, bundling the latter's...
Game discovery platform Chartboost is on fire, scores Sequoia in $19 million Series B
There are two principal challenges facing mobile game developers today. The first is app discovery. Amid an increasing sea of choices, it's never been more difficult to gain user mind share and cruc...
Consumers pay the hidden costs for the ‘free’ app ecosystem
Can mobile developers find a way to make paid apps work at scale? — Time is money, and apps don't last forever. You're never going to get back the hours you spent Oinking that hip record shop in Wi...
Mo' money, fewer funds: 182 U.S. VC firms raised $20.6 billion in 2012, most since 2008
According to a new report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), U.S. venture capital firms raised $20.6 billion from 182 funds during full year 2012.
Verizon Says Buying Out Wireless Venture ‘Feasible’
Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Lowell McAdam believes the company could pull off the acquisition of its wireless joint venture with Vodafone Group PLC. — In an interview Monday ahead of...
Amazon Prime comes to Canada with free two-day shipping, but no Instant Video
Amazon Prime is finally available in Canada. For $79 a year, plus taxes, Canadians will receive free two-day shipping on eligible items destined for “most cities” in the country, with no minimum purc...
Firefox 18 gets up to 25% faster JavaScript with IonMonkey, built-in PDF viewer, and Retina support
Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 18 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include a new JavaScript compiler, a built-in PDF viewer, as well as Retina support (on Macs) ...
GM Announces New App Framework, SDK, And Store For In-Vehicle Apps
Ford today introduced its new AppLink API that allows mobile apps to talk to its cars. Not to be outdone, General Motors just introduced its own API and SDK for its new in-vehicle app platform. the b...
GitHub Introduces Contributions, A New Way To Display On Profile Pages What Developers Are Doing
GitHub continues to build out its unique social network with Contributions, a new addition to profile pages that displays the projects developers created and what they are contributing to …