Samsung takes a page from Apple's Passbook with new Wallet app
Samsung took the wraps off of its new Samsung Wallet app during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. The Wallet app is designed to let users store things such as event ticket...
Unsold IPhones Piling Up at Leap Wireless
For one of the country's prepaid cellphone carriers, a big bet on the iPhone is becoming a big headache. — Leap Wireless International Inc., which operates the Cricket cellphone brand, said it is on...
Passbook mobile ticketing expanding to 13 MLB ballparks this season
For the 2013 baseball season, Major League Baseball is more than tripling the number of stadiums that will accept mobile tickets via Apple's Passbook app. This year there will be 13 stadiums that wil...
Groupon's Loss Widens; Stock Dives
Groupon Inc.'s stock plunged 26% after the daily-deals site capped a turbulent first year as a public company with a wider quarterly loss and a forecast for weak growth. — Chicago-based Groupon has ...
Microsoft launches updated Office 365 for business users
Summary: Microsoft is launching the services piece of its ‘new Office’ for businesses on February 27. Here's what new and existing users can expect, as of today. — In late January 2013, Microsoft l...
Sergey Brin: Smartphones are ‘emasculating’
During a talk at TED, the Google co-founder says Glass improves on the smartphone experience. — Mobile phones may generate the fastest-growing segment of Google's revenue, but the experience of usin...
This Amazing 3-D Desktop Was Born at Microsoft
LONG BEACH, California - The history of computer revolutions will show a logical progression from the Mac to the iPad to something like this SpaceTop 3-D desktop, if computer genius Jinha Lee has anyt...
E Ink Android Phone Lasts a Week, Weighs Next to Nothing
Who would want a smartphone with a grayscale E Ink screen? Anyone who want days of battery life, superior outdoor readability and low cost should be interested in using the technology in a phone.
Judge Upholds VirnetX Jury Verdict Against Apple For $368M
with regards to Case No. 6:10-CV-417 VirnetX (VHC), Plaintiff vs. Apple (AAPL), Defendant a memorandum opinion and order was delivered by Judge Leonard Davis. The follow key factors were released and...
Comcast Punishes BitTorrent Pirates With Browser Hijack
Earlier this week when the six strikes system launched, little was known (officially) about the punishments ISPs were planning for persistent pirates. — Since then Verizon reinstated their copyright...
Pebble Smart Watch Tells When Phone Calls, Emails Arrive
Do you ever find yourself frantically trying to fish your phone out of a pocket or purse to find out whether that beep or buzz from the device is an important call, text or email — or just something y...
Cook: Forget About Our Share Price, Apple Has Some Great Stuff Coming
If you're an Apple shareholder dismayed by the downward trajectory of the company's stock price lately, CEO Tim Cook feels your pain. — Remarking on the value of Apple's stock, which has plummeted b...
Amazon's Streaming Music Service Goes Big Screen With Debut Of Cloud Player For iPad
Only a couple of weeks after announcing Amazon Cloud Player integration with Ford SYNC's AppLink platform, the company has today updated its iOS application with native support for the Apple iPad.
New App Turns Your iPhone Into a Mobile Urine Lab
LONG BEACH, California - For entrepreneur Myshkin Ingawale the logic was unassailable. Everybody pees. And everyone has a cellphone. “There has to be something going on there,” Ingawale told a chuc...
Fake Google Glass eBay Auction Pulled After Bids Soar Past $15,000
Your plan to simply buy your way into the Google Glass early-adopter contest has been foiled. On Wednesday morning an eBay auction immediately began raising eyebrows for how much bidders were driving...
Leap Motion Controller Ships Pre-Orders May 13, Hits Best Buy Store Shelves May 19 For $79.99
Leap Motion today announced that its innovative motion controller for PCs will start shipping to pre-order buyers beginning May 13, and will launch in the U.S. at Best Buy locations on May 19.
Why don't MacBooks come with cellular networking?
I've shared John Gruber's theory on this for a while: … It's been long enough since cellular modems in PC laptops became commonplace, and the MacBook line is diverse enough, that the omission of cellu...
Apple rolls out iTunes in the Cloud support for movies to 12 European countries [update: Confirmed]
Scattered reports are emerging that Apple is rolling out movie and TV show support for iTunes in the Cloud in Europe, namely France, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Adobe outs Photoshop Touch for phones, ready to outfit pockets for $4.99
Jealous about your mates' ability to edit photos and whatnot via their mid-sized slates? Well, Adobe has just announced a solution that's ready to equip your handset of choice. That's right, the pro...
Spotify for iPhone updated with new interface
Spotify has just updated its mobile app for iPhone with a new interface that puts it on par with last year's overhauled Android version. There are a few big changes to the interface, and the most pro...
Why Silicon Valley Is the Next Detroit
All good things must come to an end, including Motown and many a once-noble region or hamlet. So I have history on my side when I lob the following grenade: Silicon Valley will take its turn someday,...
Waze adds real-time re-routing around road closures to latest iOS, Android update
Social navigation app Waze is pushing an update to iOS and Android users on Wednesday that will let users report road closures. If enough people use that capability, it could start automatically help...
Apple Shareholders Approve Board Amid Calls to Pay Cash
Apple Inc. (AAPL) shareholders re-elected the company's board and approved a non-binding measure on the company's executive compensation policy. — Investors had been asked to vote on the board and A...
Nexenta pulls in $24M to realize its vision for a software defined data center
A software defined storage startup called Nexenta has closed a $24 million funding round, proving that storage is increasingly an area of focus for IT. — In Silicon Valley, the storage space is heat...
Intel Tackles Big Data With Release of Apache Hadoop Platform
Intel on Tuesday made a big play to provide organizations with an open-source, hardware-accelerated, and secure foundation for big data analysis with the announcement of the global availability of Int...
Practice Fusion buys mobile health startup 100Plus to power patient tools with clinical data
Electronic health records provider Practice Fusion is bringing in some new blood. On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based company said it made its first major acquisition in purchasing 100Plus, a perso...
Tweens + Instagram = Tweenstagram !!!
While hanging with my 12 year old cousin the other day, I unknowingly entered into the world of Tweenstagram, a vastly different space than the Instagram I have grown to know and love (and refresh too...