Microsoft and Foxconn Parent Hon Hai Sign Patent Agreement For Android and Chrome Devices
Agreement provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio to manufacturer of more than 40 percent of the world's consumer electronics. — Microsoft Corp. and Hon Hai, the parent company of...
Facebook's Chat Heads Come to iPhones, iPad With App Update
You can't get Facebook Home on iPhone. But very soon you'll be able to get one of the most buzzed-about features from Facebook's new mobile software set: “Chat Heads” are coming to iOS devices, via a...
Tech industry cautiously welcomes Senate immigration bill
(Reuters) - Tech industry officials welcomed a bipartisan U.S. Senate immigration bill on Tuesday, saying they hoped it would make it easier to hire highly skilled workers from abroad, while laying th...
Google's Next Group of Gadgets Will Blow You Away, Says Eric Schmidt
Google chairman Eric Schmidt is spending a lot of time on the road right now — he's got a new book to promote — but he has popped into Google's Motorola unit to see what the phone company is working u...
ACLU asks feds to probe wireless carriers over Android security updates
“Defective” phones from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile pose risks, ACLU says. — Civil liberties advocates have asked the US Federal Trade Commission to take action against the nation's four major w...
Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop
Summary: Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.
Facebook Said to Hire Apple Maps Executive Amid Mobile Push
Facebook Inc. (FB) has nabbed another member of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s original iPhone team, hiring Richard Williamson, the manager who had led Apple's mapping efforts, according to people with knowledge...
WhatsApp “Bigger Than Twitter” With Over 200M Monthly Active Users, 8B Inbound And 12B Outbound Messages Daily
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum was on stage today at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference in New York City, where he said that the app is now larger than Twitter by monthly active users.
Talking heads: how a late-night hack turned into Facebook's next big thing
Facebook gambles on private messages as the future of mobile — On a Wednesday almost one year ago, Facebook product designers Joey Flynn and Brandon Walkin decided to work from home.
Facebook Seeks 7-Figure Price Tag for Summer Debut of Video Ads
TV-Like Ads Can Be Bought for Four Broad Demographic Swaths — Facebook is hoping that its hotly anticipated video-ad units can be a more-than-$4-million daily business out of the gate — if its askin...
Funny or Die's Steve Jobs Movie ‘iSteve’ Now Available Online
After being delayed yesterday, Funny Or Die's Steve Jobs movie “iSteve” has now been released online. The movie stars Justin Long as Steve Jobs and Lost's Jorge Garcia as Steve Wozniak. — The film ...
AT&T's Galaxy S 4 page lists April 30th ship date, $199 / $639 price for 16GB
We saw AT&T open up a registration page for the Galaxy S 4 almost as soon as Samsung's presentation was over, but now that link is exposing a bit more information. Several tipsters let us know that f...
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer tries to trigger chain reaction
For CEO Mayer, the chain reaction starts with great people and products to spur user growth and engagement, leading to higher ad spending and more revenue. — Marissa Mayer is sprinting and trying to...
Mailbox Drops Its Reservation System As It Revamps To Handle 100M Messages/Day
Mailbox, the email-reading and organizing app that was scooped up by Dropbox for reportedly $100 million in March after a barnstorming entry to the market, is dropping its reservation system …
Snapchat Now Boasts More Than 150 Million Photos Taken Daily
Snapchat, the wildly popular messaging service that lets users send self-deleting photos to one another, has exploded in volume over the past few months, now moving upward of 150 million photos throug...
Screen Mirroring Awareness Reaches 40 Percent of Smartphone and Tablet Owners, According to The NPD Group
Apple's AirPlay is the most well-known — Screen mirroring technologies, which gives consumers the ability to wirelessly project content from smartphones, PCs or tablets directly to a television …
Outlook.com for Android gets revamped interface, adds conversation threading, filters, and more
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has updated its Outlook.com app for Android with a revamped user interface and a few new features. You can download the latest version of the app now from Google Pla...
Tweetie and ‘pull-to-refresh’ creator Loren Brichter working with Facebook Home team
According to a tweet from Facebook's Mike Matas this morning, the company's new social home screen project has gained itself a hot collaborator. Matas says that developer and designer Loren Brichter ...
Google: Mobile Web Access Speeds Increased 30% Over The Last 12 Months
Mobile browsing got significantly faster over the last 12 months, according to a new report from Google, and the average page load times on mobile are now comparable to desktop page load times.
SoftBank Says Still Hopes to Complete Sprint Deal by July
Japan's SoftBank said Tuesday that it still expects to complete its deal by July to acquire a controlling interest in Sprint Nextel. — SoftBank's statement comes despite a rival $25.5 billion bid fo...
Details Of Immigration Bill Revealed, More High-Skilled Visas And Employer Fees
New details of the highly anticipated comprehensive immigration reform bill have leaked ahead of its introduction to Congress on Tuesday (April 16). Most of the technology industry will be pleased …
Windows Phone Head Myerson: Android “Still Kind of a Mess”
In an interview at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference today, the leader of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, Terry Myerson, said that the software giant's mobile effort continued to cast it as a “ch...
Twitter cuts off another payment service: Flattr is told to stop tying Favorites to money
Just days after Ribbon was forced to withdraw the ability to make payments within tweets, Twitter has moved to stymie another startup's ambitions to monetize its platform.
Leap Motion and HP to embed gesture controls in PCs
Leap Motion announced today that it's partnering with Hewlett Packard to release the first line of built-in gesture controlled computers. The companies declined to say whether the models would be lap...
Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway (Updated)
The action is being billed as “A Monster from Rome” and when you look at the scale and implications that's hard to contest. — The Public Prosecutor of Rome, Italy, has targeted a total of 27 file-sh...
Windows Azure Announces General Availability And Promises To Match Any AWS Price Drop
Microsoft has announced general availability for Windows Azure Infrastructure Services with a promise to match any price drop from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Microsoft marked the occasion with a decr...