After nearly 10 years, Adobe abandons its Creative Suite entirely to focus on Creative Cloud
Adobe first launched Creative Suite 1 back in 2003, and now, ten years and six versions later, the company is taking a left turn: Adobe is abandoning its Creative Suite entirely to focus efforts on Cr...
Senate OKs Internet sales taxes, bill goes to House
The Senate on Monday voted to allow states to collect Internet sales taxes, sending the bill to the House where it could face more resistance from anti-tax Republicans. — The Marketplace Fairness Ac...
On To Google Ventures
It was almost exactly 19 months ago that I laid down the proverbial writer's pen and picked up the less proverbial pen for writing checks. It has been an amazing experience getting a fund up and runn...
U.S. Says China's Government, Military Used Cyberespionage
WASHINGTON—The Chinese government has targeted U.S. government computer systems for intrusion, the Pentagon said Monday in a more direct accusation of cyberespionage than the U.S. has made in the past...
Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn't
Should single-player games, Blu-ray playback, and live TV viewing be possible on a gaming console with no Internet connection? Most gamers would say “yes,” but they have been worried that Microsoft f...
Fitbit Flex review
Whipping you into shape one step at a time — For a little over a month, I've been getting off my subway one stop early and walking the rest of the way home. I've been playing soccer twice a week, a...
Jon Rubinstein Joins Board of Qualcomm, as Mobile Chipmaker Ups Its Silicon Valley Cred
According to sources close to the situation, well-known tech exec Jon Rubinstein will be joining the board of Qualcomm, the San Diego-based chipmaker that has gotten a big boost of late for its role i...
Apple extends 2.25 banhammer to apps with sharing, recommendation and App Store search tools
Product: — App Store — Manufacturer: — Apple — Apple has begun clamping down on third-party tools that allow users to recommend apps to their friends, with releases equipped with an app search...
BILL GATES ON THE IPAD: ‘A Lot Of Those Users Are Frustrated’
Bill Gates took a shot at the iPad while explaining Microsoft's rationale for the Surface this morning on CNBC. — He was asked about the declining PC market. He said that tablets are growing in pop...
Intel's Silvermont Architecture Revealed: Getting Serious About Mobile
The most frustrating part about covering Intel's journey into mobile over the past five years is just how long it's taken to get here. The CPU cores used in Medfield, Clover Trail and Clover Trail+ a...
Asustek to Make Small Windows 8 Tablets
Taiwanese PC Manufacturer Expects Prices to Drop Below $300 — Asustek Computer Inc. of Taiwan plans to sell small Windows 8 tablet computers this year, giving a boost to Microsoft Corp.'s efforts to...
Apple Misses IPhone Customers as Global Carriers Balk
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is missing out on a chance to court as many as 2.8 billion new smartphone customers, many of them in Asia, as wireless-service providers balk at conditions imposed by the iPhone make...
Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years
A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers — One of the dreams for security exper...
Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram
The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom …
Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun
“Alright. One...two...” — Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape. A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of y...
First Retina iPad Mini is on track: DisplaySearch update
The first refresh of the iPad Mini is coming in the third quarter, NPD DisplaySearch said Sunday, in an update. — Update: The iPad Mini will be refreshed in the third quarter with a retina display, ...
Nintendo taps smartphone apps for console boost
OSAKA - Nintendo Co. is trying to modify its game consoles so customers can use smartphone applications on them as it searches for a way to return to profitability, company sources said. — The game ...
Aereo files suit against CBS to head off second copyright claim from network
Aereo has filed a complaint against CBS in an effort to prevent the network from filing additional lawsuits against the fledgling service. — Aereo is a web TV service that enables users to view over...
Dell snaps up Enstratius to build cloud momentum
You have to give Michael Dell credit: his company's still moving and shaking despite what have to be considerable distractions as he and his private equity pals take the company private. On Monday mo...
EU regulator takes aim at Google over Apple mobile patent lawsuit
(Reuters) - The European Commission said it believed Motorola Mobility, a unit of Google, was abusing its market position by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany over patents e...
The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC
When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. It was a fun period for me because everything was new and I was curious. — What kind of deals should I be doing? — What st...
BlackBerry R10 leaks again, now in black and with rumoured specs
BlackBerry R10, the entry-level physical QWERTY BlackBerry 10 smartphone, has leaked online once again. We first saw this in white, then red and now it's making an appearance in black. All the colou...