Microsoft unveils Xbox One: the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system
Blockbuster titles, Steven Spielberg-produced Halo TV series, and exclusive agreements with the NFL transform games, TV and entertainment for the 21st century living room. — A new vision for the fut...
Apple Tax Bill Overstated to Investors
Apple Inc.'s real tax bill isn't as big as the one it reports to its investors. — Among the findings of an investigation by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are figures that sho...
Flickr, Vimeo integration likely to bolster social ties in iOS 7
In the upcoming overhaul of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, iOS 7, Apple plans to include an increased presence of third-party social networks, including Flickr and Vimeo, according...
Former Apple, Palm Executive Mike Bell to Head Intel's New Devices Unit
While it isn't going into detail about its plans for a new devices unit, Intel has tapped a leader whose expertise goes well beyond chips. — Mike Bell, who has been co-leading Intel's mobile chip bu...
Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends, But Twitter & Instagram Adoption Way Up
Teenagers use Facebook by far more than any other social media site and have over 400 friends on it. But Twitter and Instagram have massively increased their usage in the past year …
Images: Amazon.com wants to build a massive biosphere in Seattle (perfect for workers and mature trees)
Amazon.com is charting a new course for one of its proposed downtown Seattle office buildings, unveiling new drawings this week which show a massive spherical greenhouse-like structure capable …
Latest Google+ redesign comes to the mobile Web: Cover photos, larger tap targets, and card-based posts
Google on Tuesday announced a redesign of its Google+ social network for the mobile Web. The revamp is meant to bring the mobile version of Google+ in line with the last redesign of the service.
Ireland rejects blame for Apple's low tax rate
(Reuters) - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments and had no special rate deal with the company after the U.S. Senate said it paid little or no tax on ten...
IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon
IBM's question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical s...
Customers not as happy with iPhone as they were last year
The American Customer Satisfaction Index shows Apple remains on top, but it's declining while Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung are rising. — The iPhone 5 — More customers are satisfied with Apple's ph...
NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400
An administrative law judge decides that a man leasing a condo broke New York's laws after he rented out part of his home on Airbnb. — New York officials have determined that a man who rented out pa...
Spotify to Share Top-50 Song Lists
Music-streaming service Spotify AB Tuesday will begin publishing lists of its top 50 most-streamed songs and most-shared songs, embedded with links that allow fans to listen without registering or sig...
Live from Microsoft's next Xbox event
We're live blogging Microsoft's next Xbox announcement. The tagline on the screen is “A New Generation Revealed” and we're inside a tent on Microsoft's soccer pitch. The usual pre-event executive gl...
The man who ‘nearly broke the internet’
Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox — The day Sven Olaf Kamphuis parked his huge orange Mercedes van wit...
Microsoft launches The Music Room, an interactive TV series on Xbox Live
A day ahead of its hotly anticipated Xbox event, Microsoft has announced a new interactive TV series entitled The Music Room, exclusively on Xbox Live. As a part of Microsoft's drive to beef up Xbox'...
Opera's WebKit-Based Android Browser Exits Beta To Battle Apps For Users' Attention
Browser maker Opera's first WebKit browser has exited beta. The full launch for the browser previously code-named Ice adds a few additional minor updates to the meaty feature-set demoed at the Mobile...
FedRAMP seal of approval clears Amazon for more government work
Amazon Web Services can now claim a rare blessing among cloud providers: it has earned the FedRAMP accreditation that certifies that it has met a variety of security standards. That certification, wh...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active leak-proof S4 now leaked on video
Twitter granted patent on pull-to-refresh, promises to only use it defensively
Can the Innovator's Patent Agreement bring peace to the patent wars? — Twitter was just officially granted a patent on the ubiquitous pull-to-refresh gesture — a touch interface concept the company ...
You are your data: The scary future of the quantified self movement
Few if any consumers who fell behind on their credit card payments in the early 2000s thought that half a decade later employers would use their credit score to determine their job worthiness.