AT&T adds ‘administrative fee’ to wireless bills, stands to rake in hundreds of millions from unwitting customers
AT&T has introduced a new “Mobility Administrative Fee” to its postpaid contracts. The $0.61 monthly fee ($7.32 per year) is being categorized “below the line” alongside tax and fees as an administra...
Apple's WWDC Keynote Scheduled for Monday, June 10
Apple today said the keynote address for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will occur at 10 AM PT Monday, June 10, at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Not a big surprise, as that is the day ...
Evernote Launches Reminders
In the years I've spent using and recommending Evernote, I've always noticed a chasm between people who rely on the service to store reference material and notes, and those who want to also use Everno...
Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War
Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter ...
New Colors Rumored for iPhone 5S and Lower-Cost iPhone, Dual LED Flash for iPhone 5S?
Macotakara has released a report with new details on a number of upcoming products, including the rumored low cost iPhone, the iPhone 5S, and the iPad 5. Citing information from several different sou...
Lyft Lifts $60 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Gives 30,000 Rides A Week A Year After Launch
It was almost one year ago (to the day!) that my colleague Kim Mai-Cutler wrote our first story on Lyft, and how the company was going to offer some lower-priced competition to on-demand ride leader U...
Google Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads
Google Inc. (GOOG) is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb comp...
Microsoft's Sculpt Mobile Mouse and Sculpt Comfort Mouse have built-in Start buttons, arrive in the coming weeks
File this under “things we could have sworn already existed.” Microsoft just announced two mice, the Sculpt Mobile Mouse and Sculpt Comfort Mouse, and believe it or not …
Microsoft Xbox 360 did not infringe Motorola patents, rules ITC
The International Trade Commission has ruled that Microsoft did not infringe upon any Motorola Mobility patents with the Xbox 360. The decision represents the end of an investigation that stretches b...
Nvidia launches its GeForce GTX 780 for PC gaming that is faster than Xbox One
You could wait for the Microsoft Xbox One or the Sony PlayStation 4 to arrive this fall, or you could play PC games with better graphics now. Nvidia is launching its GeForce GTX 780 graphics chip tod...
Google brings your Google+ photos right into Search, serves results via computer vision and machine learning
Google on Thursday announced a very interesting integration between its main search service and Google+ Photos. The company now lets you find your photos both on Google+ and Google Search just by, we...
Google debuts Chrome 28 beta with rich notifications for apps and extensions on Windows; Mac and Linux coming soon
Just two days after releasing the stable version of Chrome 27, Google has announced the release of Chrome 28 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Developer Edition headed to Verizon and AT&T
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Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings
What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March? — Mostly working on new versions of the product …
Box acquires Folders technology to enrich iOS offering
Box indicated on its blog Thursday that the cloud-storage company has “acquired the technology” for the Folders iOS app enabling users to open many kinds of files on the iPhone. The deal marks Box's ...
Facebook won't bring HTC First smartphone to the UK after all (update: due to bad feedback in the US)
After a series of rumors about the HTC First not selling too well in the States, we've now heard that the customized Facebook / Android handset won't be coming to the UK.
Yahoo Acquires Gaming Platform Startup PlayerScale
Another day, another acquisition by Yahoo. — Today Yahoo is announcing it's acquired PlayerScale, a California-based startup that makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Financial ...
Google adds Google Drive files and Calendar events to Gmail's search for US users
Google on Thursday announced Gmail users will soon be able to see relevant emails, Google Drive files, Calendar events, and so on as they type out a query. The search feature is rolling out to US Eng...
Jeff Bezos grilled over violent games, movies during Amazon shareholder meeting
Amazon just wrapped up its annual meeting of shareholders at Seattle Center, with Jeff Bezos giving a broad overview of the company's business and fielding questions from shareholders.
Ex-Googler Ben Ling Brings His Operations Experience To Khosla Ventures
Former Badoo COO and ex-Googler Ben Ling has joined Khosla Ventures, according to sources. Ling, who has held senior operations roles for a number of big companies in the mobile and Internet space …
With New Mobile App, Nextdoor Unveils Its Take on the Neighborhood Watch
Think of what you're used to in a local neighborhood-watch group: Signs posted around a community with contact information, perhaps monthly meetings to discuss safety issues and concerns.
Google engineer bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers, discloses Windows zero-day
Microsoft confirms probe of vulnerability hackers could use to gain additional privileges on targeted PCs — A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with …
AT&T's GoPhone Prepaid Brand to Gain iPhone and LTE/HSPA+ Support Tomorrow
MacRumors has learned that AT&T's GoPhone prepaid wireless brand will be undertaking a significant expansion of its services starting tomorrow, offering support for the AT&T's fastest LTE and HSPA+ da...
JustFab Goes Up A Size In Europe, Acquires Fab Shoes To Take Its Fashion Subscription Service To France And Spain
JustFab, the subscription-based fashion commerce site, is putting the $109 million that it has raised so far to use: today it is announcing the acquisition of The Fab Shoes …
Online Video-Ad Network Tremor Video Files For Its IPO
Video ad network Tremor Video has filed for its long-awaited public offering. The company's shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least $86 million. — Tremor Video, which r...
In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance
BEIJING — Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, r...
Jack Dorsey's digital payments company Square expands beyond North America, landing in Japan first
Red hot payments startup Square is invading Asia after it announced that its service has launched in Japan, which becomes its third market worldwide in addition to the US and Canada.
Kim Dotcom accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of violating his two-step security patent
Hours after Twitter rolled out support for two-step verification, Kim Dotcom has claimed credit for inventing the security feature. In a series of tweets, the embattled Megaupload founder points …
Twitter Launches TV Ad Targeting, Twitter Amplify For Real-Time Videos In Stream
Twitter today made the latest push in its bid to cozy up to Madison Avenue and the world of big-budget advertising, by tapping more into the kind of mainstream mediums where advertisers like to spend ...
Temping fate: can TaskRabbit go from side gigs to real jobs?
The errand marketplace hires for longer-term work, and may add benefits — Not long ago, Chris Mok worked in the advertising department for Macy's in San Francisco, booking models for the department ...
Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
In a bid to make JavaScript run ever faster, Mozilla has developed asm.js. It's a limited, stripped down subset of JavaScript that the company claims will offer performance that's within a factor of ...
Lenovo Quarterly Profit Rises 90% on Market Share Gains
Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, reported a 90 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit after increasing its market share and boosting smartphone sales. —...
Wary of China, U.S. Steps Into Sprint's Board
SoftBank Corp. is readying a plan to allow the U.S. government an unusual level of influence over the operations of Sprint Nextel Corp., a concession to ease security concerns raised by the proposed c...
Why iPhone repair costs have soared
A broken screen can now cost more than $200 to fix … The company charges as much as $229 to replace an iPhone 5 with a broken screen. That's more than the $200 price of the device with a two-year con...
HP redesigns Envy and Pavilion laptops for 2013, including one with a 3200 x 1800 screen
Last year, Hewlett-Packard decided to unify the design of every thin and light laptop it sold, applying the same basic curves across every keyboard, touchpad, hinge, lid, and frame.
Corning Pits Gorilla Glass 3 Against Sapphire, Plans Reflection Reduction and Antimicrobial Technology
Following Apple's adoption of sapphire crystal as a strong and durable covering for the rear cameras on the iPhone 5 and fifth-generation iPod touch late last year …
‘Around 5 million’ HTC One smartphones sold since launch
HTC has sold “around five million” of its flagship smartphone, the One, since launch. The figure will abate fears that HTC is dead in the water (the company is struggling internally) but does confirm...
Chrome 27 for Android is out: Fullscreen on phones, simplified searching, tab history on tablets, and more
Just a day after releasing Chrome 27 on the desktop, Google on Wednesday announced the release of Chrome 27 for Android, adding fullscreen support on phones and a tab history option on tablets.
Apple's Newest iPhone Ad Still Says Nothing, Is a Little Less Great
The deceptively simple iPhone ad Apple rolled out last month has garnered all sorts of praise. Totally justified! — So you can see why they'd try a new one, using the exact same format, music and s...
HP Envy Rove 20 is the company's stab at a giant all-in-one Windows 8 tablet
It's hard to say if there's a market yet for an all-in-one touchscreen PC that you can just pick up and carry around, but it seems that no Windows PC maker wants to be left out.