Alleged Google Now for iOS video leaks on YouTube, is promptly pulled
iOS fans jealous of Jelly Bean's creepy Google Now might finally have something to get excited about. An October update to the Google Search app finally delivered an updated voice recognition experie...
Introducing Pinterest Web Analytics
Bloggers, businesses, and organizations often ask us, “what are people pinning from my websites?” These website owners help create the content on Pinterest and we wanted to help them understand which...
Amazon Has An Estimated 10 Million Members For Its Surprisingly Profitable Prime Club
Amazon hasn't disclosed how many people have signed up for its Prime program, which offers free two-day shipping, a Netflix-like video service, and other perks for a $79 annual fee.
Spotify: Growing like mad, yet so far to go
The digital music service has added another 1 million subscribers since December, bringing its global total of paying customers to 6 million. — AUSTIN, Texas — It's not a bluegrass jam on the legend...
The Only Thing That Has Really Changed At Apple Is That There's No More Reality Distortion Field
Apple! — A year ago analysts were tripping over themselves to raise their price targets. — This year, they're tripping over themselves to lower their price targets.
France Refers Skype to Prosecutors
PARIS - French regulators said Tuesday they have asked prosecutors to investigate Microsoft's Skype unit over its failure to register as a telecommunications operator in accordance with local law, rai...
∞ Apple's Maps being updated often and significantly
Apple's Maps being updated often and significantly — There is no doubt that Apple is working hard on improving its iOS Maps application in the past few months. The results can be seen in an update ...
The “iPhone 5S” problem
Apple may or may not release a product called the “iPhone 5S” this year. The presumption, however, fueled by Apple having previously released the 2009 iPhone 3GS-as-in-speed, and the 2011 iPhone 4S-a...
iPhone Video Usage Doubles Android, Says Ooyala
From the “Android is from Mars, Apple is from Venus” files, another reminder that the kind of phone you have influences what you do with that phone. — Or maybe it's a reminder that people buy differ...
Major glitch in Bitcoin network sparks sell-off; price temporarily falls 23%
A technical glitch in the core Bitcoin software forced developers to call for a temporary halt to Bitcoin transactions, sparking a sharp sell-off. The currency's value briefly fell 23 percent to $37 ...
Yahoo's Mayer gets internal flak for more rigorous hiring
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer was asked at an all-staff meeting several weeks ago whether her rigorous hiring practices had caused the company to miss out on top engineering tale...
Meet the ‘Corporate Enemies of the Internet’ for 2013
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders names five companies as “digital mercenaries” that have decided to sell their surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes. — Vietnam has been named one of ...
UK's anti-fraud agency says may be conflicted in Autonomy probe
(Reuters) - Britain's fraud-busting agency said it might have a conflict of interest in its investigation of Autonomy, a British software company accused of accounting irregularities by its new U.S. o...
Security firm: iOS Provisioning Profiles could be vector for Apple's first big malware wave
Up to this point, iOS users have been relatively safe from malware on their devices. Apple SVP Phil Schiller recently felt good enough about it to tweet a link to a recent report that put most of the...
Google Now confirmed for Chrome OS and Windows, beta browser reveals
Google Now integration may soon become available in Google's Windows browser and Chrome OS platform in the near future, after engineers added a new reference to the feature in the latest Chromium rele...
Chinese Version Of Samsung Galaxy S IV Apparently Captured In Hands-On Video
After yesterday's photos posted to a Chinese forum of a device claimed to be the Samsung Galaxy S IV, a video of what looks like the same device has landed on YouTube — again purporting to be the seq...
AWS Just Made It A Whole Lot Easier For Anyone
Amazon Web Services will now offer the option for everyone to have their own virtual private cloud (VPC), another sign of the company's intent to push into the enterprise market.
Crittercism Nabs $12 Million in Funding to Expand Beyond Tracking Mobile App Bugs
Crittercism, a San Francisco-based company that helps mobile app developers track their performance, has raised a further $12 million from its existing investors. — The company's technology lets mob...
Evolv pulls in $15M to prevent the ‘wrong person ending up in the wrong job’
Imagine being able to use data to pinpoint the most high-performing employees, and keep them satisfied? — A startup called Evolv is building technology to solve that very problem, and has raised $15...
Panic over as EU votes to reject ‘porn ban’ proposals
EU politicians have voted against a pan-European ban on all forms of porn, including on the web, at least for now. Such a vote has happened before, and it's worth putting the ‘porn ban’ into some con...
Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working
To begin his talk at the Startup Village at South By Southwest, Steve Blank played a clip from Bravo's reality show “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” Ben and Hermione Way, two aspiring entrepreneurs who h...
Automatic's iPhone app makes your dumb car feel a little smarter
Automatic handles everything from fuel efficiency to to crash response — Cars have been equipped with onboard computers for decades now, but as they get smarter, they remain stubbornly closed off.
Data Mining for Investors: DJ Patil
Data mining can help venture capitalists find the next big thing. But it can't be the whole story— at least not yet. — From his perch as data scientist in residence at the Silicon Valley venture-ca...
China says willing to discuss cyber security with the U.S.
(Reuters) - China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing ...
Microsoft offers Kinect code samples under open source
The software giant, hoping to get more developers writing PC applications to use its motion-sensing controller, is offering some pieces of code under an Apache 2.0 license. — Kinect for Windows sens...
AMD Richland chips will arrive in notebooks next month, promise better graphics, battery life and a few extras
Yearly product cycles? AMD doesn't need that long, thank you. It's planning to release a fresh batch of low-power APUs just 11 months after Trinity.