Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance
Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are “impossible to intercept,” even with a warrant. — Encryption used in A...
For labels, Apple's iRadio deal could be sweeter than Pandora
Apple is close to a deal with two major music labels to bring to life its streaming music service, which could pay labels better than Pandora does. — Apple is close to striking a streaming deal with...
Apple's Campus 2 Shapes Up as an Investor Relations Nightmare
At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple (AAPL). Scarecrow thin b...
comScore: Apple increases lead as top US smartphone maker, Samsung gains; Android down second month in a row
In the US, Apple started 2013 as the top OEM and it has only further increased its lead in February. Samsung is gaining as well, but not quite as quickly.
Anonymous takes control of North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites
North Korea's official Twitter and Flickr accounts have been hacked and two of its main websites defaced, in hacker group Anonymous's latest efforts to disrupt the communist county's online presence.
Verizon CEO says he's open to dropping contracts
CEO Lowell McAdams says the company could easily shift to the model if consumers begin demanding it. — Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam cracked open the door to a full no-contract wireless world. — McAda...
Apple adds age rating tags to iOS App Store descriptions
In a slight tweak to the App Store, Apple recently began highlighting apps' recommended age ratings by adding a small informational box located directly below a title's developer credits, possibly in ...
Google Fights U.S. National Security Probe Data Demand
Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's largest search engine, is challenging a demand by the U.S. government for private user information in a national security probe, according to a court filing...
Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warns
PC market begins to slip and tablets will outsell desktops and laptops combined by 2015, as Android ascendancy means challenge to relevance of Microsoft, research group warns — Microsoft faces a sli...
Samsung Decides to Build Its Own Stores — Inside Best Buy
Inside Best Buy — Samsung is battling Apple on many fronts, and retail stores are no exception. — However, this time the company has opted not to follow the same path as its rival. Whereas Apple o...
Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg's Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website?
The word on the interwebs today is that this 1999 Angelfire page belongs to one Mark Zuckerberg. Yes, that Mark Zuckerberg, which means this could be the very first website that the hoody that made F...
Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later
The photo above is a Microsoft classic, showing the company's founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, surrounded by personal computers in 1981. Fast forward 32 years, and check out the picture below …
T-Mobile Says It Gained 579,000 Customers Last Quarter Amid Strategy Shift
T-Mobile USA late on Wednesday released some preliminary first-quarter results that it says show its turnaround efforts are starting to take hold. — The company said that its total customer base gre...
Intel: The Big Bet That Could Change TV
@awallenstein — Employees at Intel Corp. are free to roam almost anywhere across the vast Santa Clara, Calif., campus they call home. Certain laboratories are off-limits of course; that's understan...
Facebook to See Three in 10 Mobile Display Dollars This Year
Mobile advertising will reach $7.29 billion in 2013, and Google will take home more than half of it — Following explosive entrances by Facebook and Twitter to the marketplace, as well as a strong pe...
Twitter Arrives on Wall Street, Via Bloomberg
Largely blocked on Wall Street, Twitter is making its big debut on trading desks — via Bloomberg terminals. — Bloomberg L.P. announced on Thursday that it was incorporating tweets into its data serv...
iPad price cuts: A signal Apple is about to release new ones
WalMart, BestBuy and MacMall have all lowered their prices on iPads and iPad minis. — FORTUNE — It's only been 163 days since Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPad mini and updated its full-size iPad lin...
What to Expect From Facebook's Android Event
Facebook is hosting a big mystery event today for the world to see its “new home on Android.” — We've reported that Facebook has been working to build software that runs on Android, Google's smartph...
Online music licensing revenues pass radio for first time
Google Play and Xbox licensing agreements help digital revenues jump 32.2% in 2012, from £39.1m to £51.7m — British songwriters, including acts such as Ed Sheeran and Calvin Harris, netted a record ...
Unusually low number of Q1 VC exits reported
U.S. budget and world economic worries appeared to have made for a very small exit window for venture-backed companies in the first three months of 2013. — Only eight venture-backed U.S. companies w...
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox says technical problems are result of major DDoS attack
Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, says it's been hit by a major DDoS attack that's causing lengthy trading lags, 502 errors, and in some cases, preventing people from logging ...
Arthur Frommer gets Frommer brand back from Google
NEW YORK (AP) — Travel guru Arthur Frommer said Wednesday that he has reacquired rights to his travel guidebook brand from Google, and that he intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks. — Goog...