Apple releases iOS 6.1 with more LTE carrier support
Apple has released iOS 6.1 to iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV users. This public release follows five beta seeds to developers.
Vine begins censoring searches, weeds out #porn and more
In the latest development in today's pornography on Vine saga, Twitter's video-sharing app now blocks many searches for pornographic terms. Trying to search for the #porn hashtag and other similar te...
Crashlytics is joining forces with Twitter
What an incredible journey this past year has been — today, we're excited to announce: we're merging with Twitter to take our platform to an entirely new level! — Our Product — We started Crashlyt...
HP's first Chromebook revealed in leaked spec sheet
HP is preparing to launch its first entry into the Chromebook marketplace, if a PDF found on its site can be believed. According to this listing, HP's currently-unannounced Pavilion Chromebook will f...
Yahoo Ends 2012 With A Solid Q4: $1.22 Billion Revenue, Non-GAAP EPS 32 Cents
Yahoo today released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, marking the end of a key year for the long-running web portal. Q4 2012 was Yahoo's second full quarter with Marissa Mayer at...
Acer Sees Success in Chrome; Windows Fails to Drive Sales
Acer Inc. (2353), the Taiwanese computer maker that's suffered two consecutive annual losses, posted strong sales of notebooks using Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Chrome platform after the release of Microsoft...
We're Testing Out A New Look!
We're excited to announce that we'll be testing an update to Pinterest.com with a small group of people soon. With this update, we've tried to take your feedback into account. We're eager to learn e...
New Details On Apple's Budget iPhone 5
Backstage Categories: — Rumors of a budget “ready for China” iPhone have been circulating for some time, but apart from a possible price point ("low") and assumptions about its components ("plastic,...
Nick Denton Is Resurrecting Valleywag
Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip blog Gawker killed off in 2009, is making a comeback. — Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, says he'll be bringing the site back to life, and he's currently hun...
Facebook recovers from outage affecting US users, says issue was DNS-related [Updated]
Facebook is suffering from an extended outage that is causing downtime for users based in North America. The site has been offline for many in the US this evening — including Texas, New York and othe...
WhatsApp violates privacy laws over phone numbers: report
(Reuters) - WhatsApp, one of the most popular apps in the world, contravenes international privacy laws because it forces users to provide access to their entire address book, Canadian and Dutch data ...
Barnes & Noble to Whittle Stores for Years
Barnes & Noble Inc. expects to close as many as a third of its retail stores over the next decade, the bookseller's top store executive said, offering the most detailed picture yet of the company's pl...
Pebble smartwatch review
Can Pebble make the first smartwatch for regular people? — The Pebble smartwatch is a lot more than just a watch — it's the latest attempt to turn your wrist into the launchpad for a wearable comput...
Sales Talks Fell Through, So Ad Exchange AdBrite Shuts Down
Advertising exchange AdBrite is shutting down, after an attempt to find a buyer for the company failed. — CEO Hardeep Bindra is telling partners that the company, which has 26 employees, will close ...
Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise
In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. — Whil...
Ubuntu phones to come with a terminal—prepare your command line skills
prepare your command line skills — The Ubuntu phone operating system will come with a terminal application. That's right: experienced users will have access to the full power of the Linux system run...
How Facebook Taught Its Search Tool to Understand People
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Human behavior is Facebook's business. — Its success is based on understanding how people are wired: how they present themselves, what they remember, whom they trust, and now, h...
Meet the man who would make BlackBerry apps cool
Alec Saunders has accomplished the seemingly impossible and gotten developers interested in RIM's new mobile operating system, which is set to be unveiled this week. — LAS VEGAS—Alec Saunders needed...
Google's approach to government requests for user data
Today, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, when the world recognizes the importance of preserving your online privacy and security. — If it's like most other days, Google—like many companies that provi...
Hardcore porn briefly climbs to the top of Vine's 'Editor's Picks,' Twitter blames it on ‘human error’
The launch of Twitter's video-sharing service Vine has brought with it another look at pornography on Apple's tightly-controlled iOS platform, and that scrutiny may be about to increase …
Ban on games consoles may be lifted, suggests Culture Ministry source
Chinese authorities are reviewing a decade-long ban on game consoles and considering the possibility of opening up the country's video game hardware market, a government source told China Daily.
We're Testing Out A New Look!
We're excited to announce that we'll be testing an update to Pinterest.com with a small group of people soon. With this update, we've tried to take your feedback into account. We're eager to learn e...
In Asia's trend-setting cities, iPhone fatigue sets in
(Reuters) - Apple Inc's iconic iPhone is losing some of its luster among Asia's well-heeled consumers in Singapore and Hong Kong, a victim of changing mobile habits and its own runaway success. — Dr...
Yahoo earnings: Mayer still has much to prove
Former Googler Marissa Mayer shocked the world last summer by taking the CEO spot at Yahoo, a brand marred by tumultuous CEO tenures and waning relevance. — Since then, Yahoo's stock has been on a t...
Microsoft to launch the new Office commercially on January 29
Summary: Finally, an official confirmation. Microsoft is launching the new Office, a k a Office 2013, on January 29. — It's finally official. Microsoft is launching the new Office, a k a Office 20...
ChaCha, Still Grinding Away at This Online Q&A Thing, Raises Another $14M
Giving people answers instead of links is the new hotness in search. To its credit, Q&A site ChaCha has been trying to do just that for six years now, and it's getting one last push of venture capita...
Lenovo responds to RIM acquisition reports, claims comments were taken out of context
After a Bloomberg report quoted Lenovo's CFO Wong Waiming as saying that it was interested in acquiring Research In Motion, the Chinese PC maker has issued a statement downplaying the significance of ...
Payvment Pulls the Plug on Facebook Commerce
Payvment announced today that is shutting down its Facebook commerce platform and handing over its customers to a competitor. — In a letter on its website, Payvment said that it and its companion si...
Twitter Gets More Transparent With A New
Twitter, now at 200 million monthly active users, is ramping up to be a big player in content delivery with embedded video services from Vine the latest move in that direction.
House panel demands briefing from Department of Justice concerning its prosecution of Aaron Swartz
Two members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today sent a letter to Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States, requesting answers to a number …
Samsung being investigated for ‘coverup’ in overnight fatality at semiconductor plant
Korean news sources are reporting that Samsung “covered up” gas leaks that led to the death of a worker at its Semiconductor plant in Hwaseong, Korea. The incident began last night at around 11pm loc...
Marissa Mayer's 3 Goals for Yahoo: A Better UI, Bigger International Reach And Broader Demographics
Considering the long-standing struggles of Yahoo as a business, its board of directors battles, and Scott Thompson's “ResumeGate”, Yahoo (and its investors) have been in sore need of some good news.
With The Help Of Citizen Cartographers, Google Launches More Detailed Map Of North Korea
Google Maps is not only a strong product, it's a strong platform. With its Map Maker tool, people from around the world can participate in making Google's maps more detailed, accurate and up-to-date.
Apple's iOS 6.1 Maps Search API is its official alternative to Google Places for local results
With the release of iOS 6.1, Apple has also announced a new Search API that will allow developers to query its Maps servers to get back point-of-interest and location data.