A new welcome to Yahoo!
Yahoo! first began as Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web, a directory of links created to help organize the Internet during its very early days. That simple directory evolved through the ye...
Google Looks to Make Its Computer Glasses Stylish
People wearing Google's glasses are transported to a strange new world in which the Internet is always in their line of sight. But for people looking at the people wearing those glasses, the view is ...
Apple iPhone 5 Overtakes Samsung Galaxy S3 to Become World's Best-Selling Smartphone Model in Q4 2012
According to the latest research from our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) service, Apple's iPhone 5 overtook Samsung's Galaxy S3 to become the world's best-selling smartphone model …
Google Developing Touchscreen Devices Using Chrome Operating System
Google Inc. has developed the first touchscreen laptops powered by its Chrome operating system to be sold later this year, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet giant tries to ...
Announcing the Twitter Ads API
Since we launched Promoted Tweets in April 2010, marketers have come to Twitter to reach new audiences and engage with more than 200 million active Twitter users on the web, on mobile devices, and on ...
FCC orders 2M people to power down cell phone signal boosters
Wireless signal boosters improve cellular connections to service provider networks. — FCC — The Federal Communications Commission today enacted a set of rules governing the sale and deployment of ...
Google shows what it's like to use Project Glass in new video and expands preorders
It's been almost a year since Google first unveiled its vision for Project Glass, but today the company has expanded preorders and released a new overview video, demonstrating how the glasses display ...
Exclusive: Pinterest Completes $200 Million Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation
Pinterest, the popular social scrapbooking site, has completed a massive $200 million funding, which values the company at $2.5 billion, according to sources close to the situation.
Steve Ballmer On the Strategy Behind His Strangest Product
Windows 8 is radically different from any previous version of the Windows operating system. Designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, servers, and even supercomputers, Windows 8 pres...
Qualcomm formally details lower-end Snapdragon 400 and 200 processors
We knew way back at CES that Qualcomm had a few lower-end chips up its sleeve, but now it's official: the Snapdragon 400 and 200 have been formally detailed in a company blog post thrown up today.
iPhoneDevSDK Details What Led to Apple, Facebook Hacking
In January, a number of Apple employees had their Macs compromised following visits to the popular iPhoneDevSDK forum. Employees from Facebook and likely dozens of other companies were compromised as...
For $19, an Unlimited Phone Plan, Some Flaws
A typical smartphone costs around $200, but it's usually shackled to a two-year contract that often costs $70 or more monthly and includes limits on data consumption, voice minutes and texts. Even pr...
Square now offers stores a “Business in a Box” hardware package for Square Register, starting at $299
Digital payments company Square today announced that it can now offer brick-and-mortar stores a complete package of hardware to run their business with its point-of-sale solution Square Register.
SwiftKey 4 released for Android (hands on): Best keyboard for Android
Summary: The best mobile keyboard just got even better with the release of SwiftKey 4 for both Android phones and tablets. — James Kendrick — I have been using the SwiftKey keyboard on both Androi...
LivingSocial raises $110 million in fresh capital
LivingSocial Inc. has raised a fresh $110 million from a group of current investors that will allow the daily deal giant to “build our reserves, solidify our long-term plans and execute against our vi...
Foxconn Says Current Hiring Freeze Due to Strong Returning Workforce, Not Waning iPhone 5 Demand
Financial Times reported earlier today that Foxconn has enacted a hiring freeze at most of its Chinese facilities due to reduced demand for the iPhone 5.
China says U.S. hacking accusations lack technical proof
(Reuters) - Accusations by a U.S. computer security company that a secretive Chinese military unit is likely behind a series of hacking attacks are scientifically flawed and hence unreliable, China's ...
Nanotubes Seen as Alternative When Silicon Chips Hit Their Limits
SAN FRANCISCO — In the next decade or so, the circuits etched on silicon-based computer chips are expected to shrink as small as they can physically become, prompting a search for alternative material...
AT&T signs roaming deal with The Cloud to offer customers access to 16,000 free WiFi spots in the UK
In an effort to provide more connectivity when its customers travel outside the US, AT&T has signed a deal with BSkyB-owned WiFi hotspot provider The Cloud to offer up to 1GB per month free of charge ...
Microsoft, EMC, NetApp join Oracle's legal fight against Google on Java
Software trade group BSA has also come out in support of Oracle — Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined an appeal by Oracle against an earlier decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit...
100Gbps and beyond: What lies ahead in the world of networking
The corporate data center is undergoing a major transformation the likes of which haven't been seen since Intel-based servers started replacing mainframes decades ago. It isn't just the server platfo...
Xamarin debuts iOS and Android app development inside Visual Studio for C# programmers
If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad ... and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development e...
Adobe updates Reader and Acrobat to patch vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild: Download now
Adobe on Wednesday released a security bulletin addressing a vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat products discovered and being exploited exactly a week ago.