Facebook launches free calling for all iPhone users in the US
In early January, Facebook began testing free calling over Wi-Fi and cellular data for all Messenger for iPhone users in Canada, and said that a US launch could be coming soon. Apparently, the test w...
Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search
The post Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. — A sample Graph Search result for the query “friends photos before 1999.” — By now the news is ...
Exclusive: SurveyMonkey Raises $850 Million in Debt
Including New Investment From Google's New Late-Stage Unit — SurveyMonkey has raised a massive $800 million in debt and additional equity funding, which it plans to distribute in a tender offer, sai...
I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
According to his indictment, Aaron Swartz was charged with wirefraud for concealing/changing his “true identity”. It sent chills down my back, because I do everything on that list (and more). — To ...
Internet 2012 in numbers
There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it's impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but we're going to give it a shot anyway. How many emails were sent during 2012? How m...
Verizon finds US developer outsourced his job to China so he could surf Reddit and watch cat videos
No, this is not the Onion, it's not April Fools, and I'm not making this up. All of this comes straight from Verizon, or more specifically, a case study from 2012 outlined by its security team.
U.S. Attorney breaks silence, defends prosecution of Aaron Swartz
AMD alleges former managers copied 100,000 confidential files before joining Nvidia
Summary: AMD believes that a former vice-president and three managers handed trade secrets to Nvidia, after they jumped ship to join a rival hardware-making firm. — Zack Whittaker
YouTube Is Ready to Invest in Vevo, but the Deal Isn't Done
YouTube is set to make another big investment in a content partner. This time around it's Vevo, the music video site. — YouTube and its owner Google have agreed to buy a minority stake in Vevo, acc...
The Tegra 4 GPU, NVIDIA Claims Better Performance Than iPad 4
At CES last week, NVIDIA announced its Tegra 4 SoC featuring four ARM Cortex A15s running at up to 1.9GHz and a fifth Cortex A15 running at between 700 - 800MHz for lighter workloads. Although much o...
Microsoft Office 2013: What to expect on the pricing front
Summary: Microsoft's Office 2013/new Office should be launching soon. Here's what we know so far about prices and packages. — As expected, Microsoft is pricing its next-generation Office 2013 line-...
Leap Motion Teams Up With Best Buy As Exclusive Retail Launch Partner, Pre-Orders Start In February
Leap Motion, makers of the innovative Leap Motion controller for PCs, today announced that at launch, it will sell its device exclusively through Best Buy's physical and online stores in the U.S. …
TWC: Netflix Is Withholding Content to Gain ‘Unprecedented’ Access to ISPs
Operator Says It Is in Discussions on Connecting Into Netflix's Private CDN — Time Warner Cable said it is currently in discussions with Netflix on terms for connecting into the video streamer's pri...
Samsung Galaxy tablets do not infringe Apple design: Dutch court
(Reuters) - A Dutch court, citing previous decisions in British courts, has ruled that some Samsung Electronics Galaxy tablets do not infringe an Apple design. — Wednesday's ruling by a district cou...
Apple Needs to Adapt to Emerging-Market Growth, Sculley Says
Ex-Apple CEO: Apple Must Adapt to Emerging-Markets — Apple Inc. (AAPL) needs to overhaul its supply chain to meet demand for cheaper smartphones in emerging markets, former Chief Executive Officer J...
Photo Sharing/Social Commerce Network Lockerz Closes
TechCrunch has learned that Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, is downsizing. It has shut down its San Diego office, laying off all but two of the staff who will now work remotel...
Google, Seen as Print's Nemesis, Is Honored by USA Today for Creativity
THE winner of a contest to encourage creativity in print advertising, with a grand prize of $1 million worth of full-page ad space in USA Today, is a company that, it can be said, is a reason there ar...
Apple Lets Buyers on China Web Pay in 2-Year Installments
Apple Inc. (AAPL) began allowing users of its Chinese website to pay in installments as the company looks for ways to make iPhones and MacBook laptops more affordable in the world's largest computer a...
Apple, Amazon ordered to try settlement in ‘app store’ suit
Even though Apple's ongoing case against Amazon over its use of the term “app store” is scheduled to go to trial, the judge wants the companies to work to settle beforehand. — A judge has ordered Ap...
After 17 Years, Education Platform Lynda.com Raises Its First Round Of Funding, $103M From Accel & Spectrum
Back in May, we shared the unique story of Lynda.com, the veteran, video-based education platform, and how it was able to generate $70 million in revenue in 2011 without taking a penny from outside in...
With licensing and cost issues, can Thunderbolt break out of its niche?
Enlarge / Intel was still pimping Thunderbolt at the 2013 CES, even if vendors weren't as keen on the technology as they seemed to be last year. — Intel launched Thunderbolt in February 2011, choosi...
Nintendo to unify console and handheld divisions in major organizational shift
Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS consoles haven't performed badly so far, but there's a real sense that they may not match their predecessors' huge success. According to a Nikkei report, however …