BlackBerry Z10 Said to Hit AT&T Stores on March 22 to Reach U.S.
BlackBerry's new Z10 device will go on sale with AT&T Inc. (T) on March 22 as the Canadian smartphone maker seeks a sales recovery in its biggest market, according to two people familiar with the plan...
Appeals Court Curbs Border Agents' Carte Blanche Power to Search Your Gadgets
A federal appeals court for the first time ruled Friday that U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche authority to search the cellphones, tablets and laptops of travelers entering the country — a ...
Google's Motorola Unit to Cut 10% of Workforce
Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility hardware unit has begun laying off about 1,200 employees, or more than 10% of its headcount, according to a company email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, as the sm...
No Winning Exploit Found For Chrome OS At Annual Hacking Competition, Pwnium 3
Google's operating system Chrome OS survived all attempts to hack it at this year's Pwnium 3 competition, which took place at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, BC this week.
Revolution in Resale of Digital Books and Music
The prospect of online stores that sell used e-books and digital music has heartened consumer advocates, but publishers and artists are worried.
Netflix Stops Issuing API Keys To New Developers, Effectively Ending Its Developer Program
Netflix just used the quiet Friday afternoon to announce that it is effectively ending its public developer program. Netflix will stop issuing API keys immediately and will not accept new API affilia...
Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It
Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype's role in China's online surveillance apparatus. The 27-year-old computer-science graduate student at the University of ...
Google to Pay $7M to Settle Wi-Spy Case With More Than 30 U.S. Attorneys General
Google will soon settle with the attorneys general representing more than 30 U.S. states over its Street View cars collecting data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks, multiple sources said.
Apple Can't Duck Giving Documents in Privacy Lawsuit
Apple Inc. (AAPL) must show in detail how it's complying with court orders to turn over evidence in a privacy lawsuit, a judge ruled, saying he can no longer rely on what the company tells him in the ...
An iPhone Lover's Take On The Nexus 4
This is the first Android device I would feel comfortable using on a regular basis. — That doesn't mean I'm going to, but I would be just fine with it. — If I had to boil down my thoughts about th...
Exclusive: CDW owners plan IPO after $7.3 billion buyout - sources
(Reuters) - Technology products retailer CDW, which was taken private by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC and Providence Equity Partners for $7.3 billion in 2007, has hired banks for an initial public of...
New Money Ventures to Silicon Valley
When SurveyMonkey LLC Chief Executive Dave Goldberg wanted to raise money for his Palo Alto, Calif., company, he didn't lean on the venture capitalists that scour Silicon Valley looking for the next G...
Bill limiting cities' ability to create broadband networks fails
Sponsored Links — The House on Thursday vote down an effort to limit local governments' ability to create their own broadband Internet networks, an effort to spur greater private sector competition.
Apple CEO Tim Cook May Testify in E-Books Antitrust Suit
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook may testify in the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit against the world's biggest technology company over e-books pricing. — The U.S. sued Apple and a grou...
Apple unlikely to introduce wireless charging iPhones this year despite rumors to the contrary
Digitimes is out today with a report that states Apple and Samsung are set to introduce wireless charging flagship phones this year. At least with Apple, this is unlikely.
T-Mobile USA to start BlackBerry Z10 business sales on March 11
T-Mobile USA, the fourth biggest U.S. mobile service provider, said on Friday that it would start selling the highly anticipated and much delayed BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen smartphone to its business ...
At an Annual Tech Show, It's Hardware's Turn in the Spotlight
AUSTIN, Tex. — Each year, thousands of tech enthusiasts flock to South by Southwest, the technology, music and film conference here, hoping to be among the first to find the next big thing in social n...
What's up with Apple's down low on Ebay sales?
Summary: Apple's Ebay store is something of a mystery. Cheaper prices (mostly) on its refurbished hardware. Is there a story here? Inquiring minds want to know. — Ken Hess — Early this morning ...
BlackBerry's Heins Says He Won't Sell $50 Phones
BlackBerry (BBRY), the Canadian smartphone maker, said it's readying less expensive devices for emerging markets like India, though it has no plans to compete with lower-cost Asian rivals at the $50 t...
Social app monetization kicks in as App Store revenue jumps 87% year-over-year: Report
Social networking apps are beginning to pay off quite nicely after monthly revenues for the category on the App Store jumped 87% year-over-year in January, according to a new study from App Annie.
Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data
Bill Gates at the SXSWedu conference. Photos via Brandon Phenix. — If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, it was the...
German court dismisses two Nokia patent lawsuits against HTC, one of them over Google Play
This morning the Mannheim Regional Court announced decisions relating to three smartphone patent cases: two Nokia v. HTC lawsuits and one Samsung v. Apple case (I'll blog about that one in the subsequ...
Facebook Plotting Major Video Push Look for Timeline videos
Video is soon going to take center stage at Facebook. — As part of Facebook's redesigned News Feed (which will be announced today), it's expected that users …
If followers can sponsor updates on Facebook, social advertising has a new horizon
This week, I found that one of my Facebook updates received significantly more attention that others I've posted. On the one hand, it was a share of an important New York Times story focusing on the ...