Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors. — The building o...
EU privacy regulators take aim at Google privacy policy
(Reuters) - European data watchdogs said on Monday they plan to take action against Google by this summer for its privacy policy, which allows the search engine to pool user data from across all its s...
Digital Diary: Are We Suffering From Mobile App Burnout?
At last count, I had 259 applications on my iPhone. — I probably use 16 regularly — including Google Maps, Messages, Twitter for iPhone and Instagram. — When I got my first iPhone in late 2008, I ...
Galaxy S IV will ‘definitely’ be announced on March 14th: sources
Expect it to take design cues from the Galaxy Note 8.0, which doesn't look like the leaks — Earlier today, mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin suggested on Twitter that March 14th would see a “big announ...
The Next Apple TV: iWatch
Rumors don't actual Apple products make, see the perennial Apple TV — and the latest iWatch rumors. This is an opportunity to step back, look at Apple's one and only love -personal computers — and us...
Tech Industry Sets Its Sights on Gambling
SAN FRANCISCO — Look out Las Vegas, here comes FarmVille. — Silicon Valley is betting that online gambling is its next billion-dollar business, with developers across the industry turning casual gam...
Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17%
Dumps multi-license packages, all to make Office 365's subscription pricing more attractive — Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-licen...
Amazon fires German security firm amid probe over mistreatment of temporary workers
BERLIN — Amazon says it has fired a German security company amid mounting criticism after reports that temporary workers had been mistreated. — An Amazon spokeswoman in Germany, Ulrike Stoecker …
You can download Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, and Linux right now; official launch tomorrow
Firefox 19 for desktop is due to officially launch on Tuesday, with long-anticipated built-in PDF viwer, but the latest version is already available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
PSA: Sprint LTE is now live in San Francisco
Imagine our surprise when, upon firing up Sprint's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 earlier today for some routine app updates, we saw the 4G logo light up (!) for the first time ever. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it...
Opera's workforce down 10% due to switch to WebKit; CEO tells us why he thinks that's a good thing
Opera Software has ‘lost’ approximately 90 employees, some of them straight-up veterans of the Oslo, Norway-based browser maker, Digi.no duly reported earlier today (in Norwegian).
The newest overhyped mobile industry buzzword: LTE-Advanced
Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks. — This week Broadcom unveiled its first LTE chipset ...
China Knocks Off U.S. to Become World's Top Smart Device Market
Just days into the Chinese New Year (Year of the “Snake” for anyone keeping track), China has passed the U.S. to become the world's top country for active Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.