Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks...
Amazon launches “Send to Kindle” button for web publishers and WordPress blogs
Amazon is now allowing publishers to add “Send to Kindle” buttons to their websites and WordPress blogs, the company announced on the Kindle blog Tuesday. It can be integrated into WordPress blogs as...
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble
Twitter gets a patent on... Twitter
Although Twitter famously has a pending patent on the familiar “pull-to-refresh” gesture, the company may have just acquired something more valuable: a patent on the Twitter messaging service itself. ...
HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed
TAIPEI—The rollout of HTC Corp.'s new flagship smartphone is being pushed back due in part to some component shortages, executives said, a setback for the Taiwanese smartphone maker attempting to turn...
Microsoft confirms ‘high-profile’ employee Xbox Live accounts hacked
The hack used SSNs in a “stringed social engineering” attack involving another company — As more of the story about the simultaneous cyber attack and real-world “Swatting” carried out against securi...
Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with Lock screen security flaw fix, Maps improvements for Japan
Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 to end users today. The update includes a security flaw fix involving the iOS device Lock screen. Additionally, the new update includes fixes for the Apple Maps applicat...
Amazon in talks with record labels about subscription music service
Subscription music is all the rage with the big Web music stores — Subscription music services have yet to profit but that hasn't stopped some of the internet's biggest media distributors from jumpi...
ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices
THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programmin...
ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot
Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company Hubspot. We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons' departu...
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device
The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move. — The administration maintains that po...
Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion
Yahoo Inc. is in talks to buy a controlling stake in France Telecom SA's online-video site Dailymotion, according to people familiar with the talks, in what would be Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Maye...
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Benchmarks
Android Authority ran Geekbench 2 on the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 last week and posted the results on YouTube. I thought it would be interesting to see how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 compares to other popu...
What 420,000 insecure devices reveal about Web security
Using a simple technique, a researcher creates a benign botnet to survey the breadth of the Internet, and finds a back door flung wide open and beckoning the bad guys. — A researcher used a simple, ...
EU plans stronger consumer law enforcement after Apple warranty case
Summary: The European Commission is frustrated that its member states have on the most part failed to take action against Apple for flouting EU law, and warns that enforcement must be actioned in orde...
Sources: Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal
In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million o...
Justice Dept. to Congress: We want greater email, Facebook, Twitter snooping powers
Summary: As a US House committee prepares to meet to discuss changing outdated email privacy laws, the US government will today tell lawmakers that it wants greater powers to access email data …
Checkboxes that kill your product
(To read this article with its formatting and typography intact, click here) — If I told you that a company is shipping a product to hundreds of millions of users right now, and included in the prod...
Google undeletes RSS extension for Chrome browser
TheIt's not dead after all. Google has resurrected an extension that lets Chrome handle RSS and Atom feeds, even though it's not resurrecting the related Google Reader service. — The 868,163 people...
Nokia wins German patent injunction against HTC over power-saving technology
This morning Nokia won a German patent injunction against HTC that may give the Finnish handset maker enough leverage to sell a patent license to its Taiwanese rival unless Qualcomm, which provides ba...
Microsoft to push Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to users starting March 19
Summary: Microsoft is starting to push Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 7 users via Windows Update, ahead of the early April end-of-support date for the RTM version of the product. — As Microsoft marches to...
Google Chromebooks Go Global: Now Available In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland And The Netherlands
Google has learned all that it needs to learn about the reception of its Chromebook laptops in the U.S. and UK and has announced availability of Acer, HP and Samsung flavors …
LG calls out Samsung for possible eye-tracking patent infringement in Galaxy S4
Yonhap News reports that the Korean cousins Samsung and LG are in a row over the eye-tracking technology in their respective flagship phones, the Galaxy S4 and Optimus G Pro.
ARM CEO Warren East Is Stepping Down And Getting Replaced By President Simon Segars
Warren East, the executive who has seen UK semiconductor juggernaut ARM Holdings through some of its most explosive growth, fuelled by deals with companies like Apple for its iPhone and iPad devices …
Same hacker may have targeted Ars, reporter Krebs, and Wired's Honan
Security reporter Brian Krebs has uncovered some details about one of the people tied to the denial of service attack on his site and the fraudulent 911 call that brought armed police to Krebs' doorst...
Skype for Windows Phone updated with People Hub integration and HD video support
After temporarily disabling People Hub integration in Skype for Windows Phone, Microsoft is pushing out a fresh update this week that brings back the feature to its latest mobile OS.
Ex-Googlers Launch Sift Science
Sift Science, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by former Google engineers, is today launching its fraud-fighting service based on machine learning …
Samsung weird: how a phone launch went from Broadway glitz to sexist mess
Surprise! Corporate influence and ‘Sex and the City’ don't mix well — “While the ladies cool off, why don't you tell us about S Health?” — That line, uttered with complete sincerity, was the caps...
RapidShare scraps unlimited storage with short notice
Even customers who paid in advance for long-term unlimited storage at RapidShare will see it disappear on March 20. The company says its terms of service permit such abrupt changes. — Online storag...