Apple Finally Reveals How Long Siri Keeps Your Data
All of those questions, messages, and stern commands that people have been whispering to Siri are stored on Apple servers for up to two years, Wired can now report. — Yesterday, we raised concerns a...
Julian Assange's secret chat with Google's chairman
Eric Schmidt met with the WikiLeaks founder for five hours in 2011 for material for a book expected to be released next week. — Eric Schmidt met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in secret in 20...
Sharpening our focus - to bring you new Yahoo! products
Like we announced last month, we want to bring you experiences that inspire and entertain you every day. That means taking a hard look at all of our products to make sure they are still central to yo...
LulzSec hacker receives year in prison for Sony breach
A hacker who pleaded guilty last year to taking part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment was sentenced on Thursday in Los Angeles to a year in prison, followed by home deten...
Twitter sets a May 7th kill date for TweetDeck Android, iPhone, AIR and Facebook integration
Back in March, Twitter announced that TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone would be killed off. At the time they gave a general ‘early May’ estimate …
Marissa Mayer breaks her silence on Yahoo's telecommuting policy
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks about ending the work-from-home policy, saying it was “wrongly perceived as industry narrative.” — FORTUNE — In the closing keynote at the Great Place to Work conferen...
Amazon Studios debuts 14 pilots for free viewing
Whether the pilots get the green light for a season of episodes will depend on what the data says. “The goal is to get customer feedback,” says studio head Roy Price. — After evaluating more than 4...
Reddit, Boston and the missing student
When crowdsourcing goes wrong. — The FBI's two suspect photos. … On 16 March, Sunil Tripathi, a student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, went missing, leaving behind a cryptic note. ...
AMD nabs Apple graphics chip designer
The PC and server chipmaker will soon announce Raja Koduri is joining AMD's team to work on graphics chip design, CNET has exclusively learned. — Advanced Micro Devices will soon announce it has hir...
China's Top Apple Hackers Launch a Pirate iOS App Store
KuaiYong has just launched this web store for pirated iOS apps. — Far from being shut down by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the Chinese team behind KuaiYong seems to be thriving. Last year it made a no-jail...
The Death of Upcoming.org
So, Yahoo's finally decided to close Upcoming.org, the events community I started nearly ten years ago. And, in Yahoo's typical f**k-off-and-die style, they're doing it with 11 days notice, no on-sit...
Twitter account of Boston bombing suspect uncovered
As authorities continue their relentless pursuit of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, another type of investigation has been developing online: a hunt for any digital footprint Tsarna...
Reddit faces outages in midst of DDoS attack
Reddit is experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious DDoS attack. — Anyone who did manage to access the site meanwhile was greeted with a warning stating that: “Site availabilit...
Now, With No Further Ado, We Present ... the Digital Public Library of America!
Three questions with the project's executive director — Benjamin Sewall Blake jumping, ca. 1888. Francis Blake, photographer. (Massachusetts Historical Society) — Two-and-a-half years ago …
After Apple's Rise, a Bruising Fall
Where's the old love, Apple? — Wall Street has turned viciously on its one-time iDarling. The rout in Apple's share price — it fell nearly 2.7 percent on Thursday, bringing the damage since late Se...
Penguin offers to scrap Apple e-book deals to end EU antitrust case
(Reuters) - British media group Pearson's Penguin unit has offered to scrap e-book deals with Apple that imposed price restrictions on Amazon and other retailers, EU antitrust regulators said on Frida...
HTC One available at AT&T and Sprint, Developer Edition delayed
Summary: HTC needs to hit it out of the ballpark to turn the financial tide and it comes to two US carriers today. However, the Developer Edition is delayed and the Galaxy S4 is coming around the cor...
Osito for iPhone: can this minimalist Google Now clone make a splash before the real thing?
There is no shortage of Google Now clones for iPhone, but none of them successfully emulate Google's concise and tasteful representation of data. Tempo focuses too much on being a “smart” calendar …
Google outlines plan for utilities to offer renewable power to companies, starts with its Lenoir data center
Google on Friday announced a new renewable initiative that would see utilities offer renewable energy power for sale to companies. Google not only outlined its vision for the initiative …
IBM's potential x86 server sale to Lenovo highlights oncoming train
Summary: IBM famously unloaded its PC business to Lenovo well before the post PC era hit. Is Big Blue bailing on commodity servers before the floor falls out? — IBM is reportedly talking to Lenovo ...
Bing Questions Study That Claimed It Delivers 5x More Malware Than Google
Last week, a study by German antivirus testing company AV-Test claimed that Microsoft's Bing delivered “five times as many websites containing malware as Google.”
A Hyped Startup Called Fab Is Pivoting To Become The 'World's Alternative To Amazon And Wal-Mart'
E-commerce design site Fab is gearing up to make its second big pivot, and further “reinvent and reimagine shopping.” — Fab co-founders Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer made a risky decision ...
In first 24 hours, #Music users tweet more Spotify links than iTunes URLs, Rdio comes in a distant third
Twitter's #Music app is out at last for the Web and iOS, following an extensive rumor cycle. If you are behind the times, head here for a detailed explanation of the service.
Broadband internet arrives in California's Gold Country through white spaces deployment
While select outfits race to make satellite broadband an acceptable solution for those who need ping times south of three digits, there's another game in town looking to quietly revolutionize rural ac...
Where's Twitter Music For Android? Why Today's Tech Companies Are Still Going iOS First
Where is Twitter Music for Android? With today's launch of Twitter's new music discovery platform, the company has again made a move to sideline the install base of around half of the U.S.'s smartpho...