Will Yahoo Try to Get Its “Cool Again” by Doing a Deal for Tumblr?
Earlier this week, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman spoke at JP Morgan's Global Technology conference and underscored the need for the aging Silicon Valley Internet giant to attract more users from the coveted 1...
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass
Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and remin...
Google Versus
Larry Page, on stage at I/O today: … Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook, an...
CW Strikes Deal with Apple to Bring Content to Apple TV
The CW has struck a deal that will bring the network's content to the Apple TV, reports Deadline. At the company's annual Upfront Presentation in New York today, CW president Mark Pedowitz announced ...
Intel May Have Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Still Win the Mobile War
As CEO Paul Otellini steps down from his post, he leaves the Intel machine poised to take on the swarming ecosystem of competitors who make smartphone chips. — Forty-five years after Intel was found...
Google+ Games to go dark after June 30th
Sure, Mountain View may be bolstering its gaming efforts on mobile platforms and the web, but it's seen fit to give Google+ Games the pink slip. After June 30th, the game section on the titan's socia...
Tim Cook says US-made Mac will be new model in an existing family
When Apple's Tim Cook revealed that his company would once more assemble a Mac line in the US, there was a flood of questions almost immediately: which model? Where would it be made? While the CEO i...
Google On Glass Privacy Issues & Congress: “Social Cues” Will Help, Plus It Takes Trust Seriously
Google Glass isn't even available for consumers and some in US Congress are already formally raising privacy questions. Google's reaction? Privacy has been “top of mind” as it has developed Glass, a...
One-third of all smartphone sales were prepaid in Q1
That's the word from The NPD Group, which found that 21 percent of purchased smartphones were prepaid last year. — Prepaid smartphone sales are starting to become more popular, according to new data...
Why the new Google server farm could displace Adobe Lightroom
Are you taking more photos per week in 2013 than 2012? How about 2010? My guess is yes. And it doesn't matter if you're a pro or just a casual photographer — it's really crazy how much visual data ...
Big offering for big data: Tableau prices stock at $31 per share
Tableau Software had been boosting its proposed price for Friday's initial public offering for the past few weeks and now we've got a concrete number. — The company will price its shares at $31 for ...
SMS is Indeed Coming to Google Hangouts, According to Google+ Community Manager
To say that readers were disappointed at the lack of SMS support in Google's new Hangouts application is probably somewhat of an understatement. People are 100% ready to make Hangouts their number …
Google Buys a Quantum Computer
Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study artificial intelligence by means of computers that use the unusual properties of quantum physics. Their quantum computer, which performs complex calc...
Samsung changes mind, will look at storage on Galaxy S4
Apple plans to move flagship San Francisco store to Union Square
Apple has submitted plans for a new retail location in San Francisco's Union Square that would replace the Apple Store currently at Stockton and Ellis. — Plans for the new store emerged on Thursday,...
Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development
Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble. The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures.
EA kills its controversial Online Pass program
EA is doing away with its Online Pass program from this point forward, a decision the video game publisher says is partially based on player response. — “Yes, we're discontinuing Online Pass,” EA se...
Biz Stone's New Startup Jelly Raises Series A From Spark Capital
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's new and mysterious startup called Jelly still isn't saying what it's up to, but it has announced funding.
Android and iOS accounted for 92% of Q1 2013 smartphone shipments, as Windows Phone passes BlackBerry
Android and iOS accounted for 92.3 percent of all smartphones shipped during the first quarter of 2013, according to new figures published today by the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Google adopts Bluetooth Smart, hints of a new Android version within two months
According to a just-issued press release from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), Google has committed to updating Android with support for Bluetooth Smart (also known as Bluetooth Low Energy)...
Microsoft building touch-screen feature into Chrome
To try to spread its flexible Pointer Events interface beyond Windows 8 and IE10, Microsoft programmers are trying to build support into Google's browser. — Through the peculiar dynamics of Web stan...
Senators struggle with tech industry concerns on U.S. immigration bill
(Reuters) - Senate supporters of a broad U.S. immigration bill struggled on Wednesday to satisfy technology companies that want greater leeway to hire high-skilled foreign workers. — Democratic Sena...
Gmail is getting quick action buttons that let you RSVP to events, rate restaurants, view flights, and more
Google on Wednesday announced the addition of a new Gmail feature called quick actions. These new buttons will be rolling out “over the next few weeks,” so don't fret if you don't see them yet.
USA Network's Dividing Line With Twitter
Several television companies have announced deals with Twitter Inc. in recent weeks, looking to take advantage of the popularity of tweeting while watching shows. But not all TV companies believe tyi...
Yahoo partners with Twitter to bring tweets directly into its US newsfeed on the desktop and mobile Web
Yahoo on Thursday announced a new partnership with Twitter that will see tweets brought directly into the company's homepage newsfeed. The new integration will be rolling out …
Is It Wrong to Use Data From the World's First ‘Nice’ Botnet?
When Morgan Marquis-Boire heard about the Internet Census 2012, he was excited. — Marquis-Boire, a Google engineer by day, spends his spare time looking for state-sponsored spyware, and here was som...
That settles it: Opera drops its $3.4m lawsuit against ex-employee Trond Hansen
A little over two weeks ago, word got out about Opera filing a rather nasty lawsuit against a former longtime employee and contractor, designer and musician Trond Werner Hansen.
Billions: How exactly do Apple and Google count app downloads?
Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it had hit 48B downloads of apps on the Google Play Store. During the same keynote, the counter on Apple's site ticked over to 50B App ...
RelayRides suspends New York service after cease and desist
New York State's Department of Financial Services today ordered car-sharing company RelayRides to suspend service in New York state, issuing a cease and desist letter to the company, alleging “repeate...
NEC's Medias X smartphone for DoCoMo features first-ever liquid-cooled CPU
NEC's just broken some new ground with the Medias X, the world's first liquid-cooled smartphone that was launched as part of DoCoMo's summer lineup. Rather than aiming it at the propeller-heads usual...
iOS BBM app will not support iPad at launch
With a summer iOS BBM app release having been confirmed, BlackBerry has revealed that the Apple friendly messaging application will not be available to iPad owners. — Leaving iPad mini and iPad 4 us...