Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer sentenced to 41 months for exploiting AT&T iPad security flaw
Following prison term, Auernheimer will be subject to three years of supervised release; ordered to split $73,000 restitution to AT&T — Security researcher Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer was today senten...
BlackBerry chief lays out survival plan and says iPhone is old news
BlackBerry chief exectutive officer Thorsten Heins has said the rapidly advancing global smartphone market has left Apple's iPhone in its wake, and predicted his company would have 100,000 native apps...
Mainstream support for WP 8 ends July 2014, WP 7.8 September 2014
Plaffo.com reports on the life cycle support dates of Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8. — According to the table Windows Phone 7.8 will receive security updates until 9 September 2014, while Wi...
Verizon Seeks to Shake Up Fees for TV Channels
FiOS Operator Presses Smaller Media Firms for Deals Based on Audience Size — Verizon Communications Inc. is proposing to shake up the pay-television business based on a simple premise: it wants to t...
Google Keep note-taking app spotted in Drive before disappearing
Everyone might be focused on the services Google is scrapping as part of its spring cleaning, but it looks like there's at least one new (or rather, renewed) service on the way. Android Police report...
Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work
A year ago, I hosted a small conclave of fellow (early) explorers of the post-html Internet. And while we are not of the SnapChat generation, most of us grew up connected. There were some who helped...
Pinterest Shares Its New Look and Pin Discovery Features With All
Avid Pinterest users, prepare for some changes to your pinboards. Today the content-sharing site, which allows users to “pin” photos, videos, articles, graphics and other objects to their own boards ...
Flattr now lets you make money from your Twitter Favorites, Instagram Likes and more
Swedish startup Flattr has been running its ‘online tipjar’ service for a few years now, and yet it's failed to gain much traction. However, it's now taking a new direction that may finally make it c...
Messaging Service WhatsApp To Extend Subscription Model To iOS This Year, But Don't Hold Your Breath For A Desktop App
WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging app that eschews advertising in favor of a paid model, is getting ready to bring its iOS app in line with the apps it makes …
T-Mobile's LTE ambitions get real: network expansion, the BlackBerry Z10 and an OTA update for the Galaxy Note II
AT&T's failed acquisition was the best thing to ever happen to T-Mobile. As a consequence of the failed merger, the fourth place wireless carrier received AWS spectrum in over 100 markets …
Ericsson and STMicro agree to carve up ST-Ericsson chipmaking venture, cutting 1,600 jobs
Ericsson and STMicroelectronics were unsuccessful with their efforts to sell chip making business ST-Ericsson to Samsung and other chip makers, and now they have agreed to carve up the joint venture, ...
My Amazon bestseller made me nothing
My novel shot to the top of the site's bestseller list last summer. You won't believe how little I got paid — In one more week I was going to be a millionaire. — At least, that was the rumor circ...
Kaifu Lee: Check Out My Chart of How Often I Get Censored by Sina Weibo
Despite insisting that he's no activist and is just keen on debating with his 33.4 million followers on Sina Weibo, entrepreneur and former Google China country manager, Kaifu Lee, finds his Weibo pos...
GOP Taps Tech Allies To Narrow Digital Gap
The Republican Party is working with Silicon Valley investors on a venture, backed by political strategist Karl Rove, to create a digital platform for targeting voters and donors, an effort that is ad...
Analysis: Amazon's sellers unhappy about fee hikes, eye rivals
(Reuters) - A brewing conflict between Amazon.com Inc and its merchants over fee hikes could benefit rival eBay Inc, and provide an opening for Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Google Inc, which are just getti...
Tensions Rise Between Facebook, Developers
The Social Network Steps Up Efforts to Curb Spam, But Developers Say It Is Blocking Competing Apps — Last month in Paris, developer Antoine Morcos received an unexpected email: Facebook Inc. said it...
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own
We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own — While Congress is working on legislation to re-legalize cellphone unlocking, let's acknowledge the real issue: The copyright laws that made unlockin...
An In-Depth Comparison Between iOS Map Frameworks: Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK
“When we first got sight of Apple's maps in the iOS 6 SDK beta at WWDC 2012, we were excited,” says Lee Armstrong, developer of the popular Plane Finder app, which tracks planes in flight all over the...
Apple lengthens Australian warranty policy, but doesn't want to talk about it
Apple had quietly extended its hardware warranty in Australia to two years, but the company's retail employees have reportedly been instructed to not reveal the changes to customers.