Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed
Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung cases in the Northern District of California, has just entered an order striking (or, more precisely, vacating) $450,514,650 …
Einhorn's Greenlight Drops “Silly” Apple Suit
Hedge fund magnate and famous Apple bull David Einhorn has dropped his lawsuit against the company in which he holds some 1.3 million shares. Einhorn's Greenlight Capital on Friday withdrew the suit ...
BlackBerry coup confirmed: iPhone, Android users make up half of Z10 sales in Canada, one-third in UK
BlackBerry (BBRY) is at the start of a very long haul as the struggling smartphone maker attempts to stage a comeback for the ages. Early sales of the company's first next-generation …
Apple's Lightning AV Adapter contains an ARM SoC, 256MB memory, may be an ‘AirPlay’ decoder
Apple's new Lightning Digital AV Adapter appears to have a system on a chip inside of it and may actually function as an AirPlay receiver, according to some recent investigation by Panic Software.
Best Buy Says It Got No Offer From Founder Schulze
Best Buy Co. (BBY) said it received no offer from founder Richard Schulze by the deadline yesterday and will continue to focus on its turnaround. — The deadline expired and Schulze didn't make a bid...
Google Releases Interactive Infographic: “How Search Works”
Every wondered how Google Search works, finds pages from across the web and decides how to list them in response to a search? If so, Google's got a new resource designed to answer questions. Called ...
Apple Offers Refund After British Boy Spends $2500 on In-App Purchases in 15 Minutes
A five-year-old boy in the UK accidentally made £1700 ($2550) of in-app purchases in a freemium game in just 15 minutes after asking his father to type in the password for a free download, reports the...
Yahoo to kill swath of products including BlackBerry app, message boards, and more in April to sharpen focus
Yahoo on Friday announced it is killing a slew of services next month. The company is shutting down Avatars, its BlackBerry app, Clues, app search, Sports IQ, Message Boards, and its Updates API next...
BSkyB buys Telefónica UK's fixed-line business for $300M
British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) will buy Telefónica's UK fixed-line broadband and telephony business for up to £200 million ($303 million), the companies announced early on Friday.
Facebook holding an event to show off a ‘new look for News Feed’ on March 7th
Facebook has just sent out an invite to press with the text ‘come see a new look for News Feed’. The event will be held at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters on Thursday March 7th, 2013 at 10am PST ...
Evernote for iOS Update: New View, Better PDF Support, Evernote Business Improvements, and More
Today's Evernote for iOS (5.2) update is full of exciting and useful features, including a new way to view your notes, a completely overhauled PDF experience, more formatting options …
Square Slapped With Cease And Desist By Illinois State Department Of Financial Regulation
Mobile payments company Square appears to have just received a cease and desist order from the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. You can access the document here.
Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline
Yahoo today issued its annual 10-K report to the Securities And Exchange Commission. These kinds of forms have a lot of boilerplate language that is reused again and again — often …
Apple Invents Advanced iPad Magnetics System for Dual iPad Notebook, Tripod Stands, Gaming Controller & Much More
On February 28, 2013, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals a system for magnetically attaching a tablet device to a supporting structure.
Google Defeats Publishers Over Copyright in German Parliament
Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a b...
Smaller Tablet PCs to Take Over in 2013?
The launch of the iPad mini in late 2012 has been seen as an acknowledgement by Apple that smaller size (7-9") tablet PCs would become a larger part of the market than larger sizes (9.7" or 10.1"). K...
HitBliss, The Pandora Of Ads, Will Pay You To Watch Commercials
We've been bombarded by advertisers for so long it's rare we even remember this, but advertising is still valuable. — HitBliss, a new service launching into beta, is looking to put the control back ...
At last, Microsoft brings Photosynth panorama app to Windows Phone 8
After previously making the panaroma app available for iOS (and Windows Phone 7 after that), Microsoft is finally bringing Photosynth to Windows Phone 8. As you'd expect, Microsoft has tapped into WP...
Exclusive: Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO
One month ago, I interviewed then-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason for a forthcoming Fast Company feature on the future of Groupon. His performance—at turns, defensive, weary, combative, and naïve—foreshadow...
Oracle investigating after two more Java 7 zero-day flaws found
Summary: Polish security researchers have discovered yet more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java, the beleaguered Web plug-in, that led to the successful intrusion of Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in re...
The Raspberry Pi: One year since launch, one million sold
The Pi super-charged DIY projects and offers a perfect teaching tool. — The folks who built the Raspberry Pi knew they had a great idea, but they probably didn't anticipate just how successful it wo...
Ex-Apple marketing guru Guy Kawasaki now advising Motorola
Apple's former chief technology evangelist Guy Kawasaki has taken a job as an advisor to Motorola. His remit at Motorola includes product design, user interface, marketing, and social media. One of ...
T-Mobile Attacked by AT&T in Newspaper Ad Ahead of Potential Rebranding
According to TmoNews, T-Mobile is gearing up to introduce significant changes to its service in March, eliminating both contracts and early termination fees, along with implementing installment paymen...
US Web payment enabler Stripe finally comes to Europe, launches beta service in the UK
Stripe, the fast-growing Web payment enabler from the US, has finally launched its service in Europe, starting with the UK today. — Founder Patrick Collison announced the launch of a beta service …
FTC: Chairman was unaware of Google's donation to ceremony celebrating his work during investigation
The FTC has responded to yesterday's controversy regarding Google and its director stating that he knew nothing at the time of the donation in question. This implicitly states …
PayPal Competitor WePay Launches iOS App to Take Invoicing & Payments Mobile
Startup WePay launched as a group payments solution that allowed people to purchase an item together online, and has since pivoted to become a PayPal-like contender in the online payments space.
HP SVP suggests learning from cyber criminals and their methods
Summary: HP's senior vice president of enterprise security software suggests that we could learn a thing or two from cyber criminals — and possibly persuade them to look elsewhere for targets at the s...
Google's Low Profile at Show Belies Its Clout
Android-Phone Makers Generate Buzz at Mobile World Congress; a Rare Apple Sighting — BARCELONA—Google Inc. kept a low profile during this year's biggest mobile-industry event here, but the Internet-...