Moto X Coming Out by October; It's All About Sensors and Will Be Built in Texas (Video)
Motorola's next “hero” phone, the first big product launch conceived and executed since Google bought the company, will be called the Moto X. — Speaking at D11 today, Motorola head Dennis Woodside s...
2013 Internet Trends
The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report finds continued robust online growth. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and the total continues to grow apace. Mobile...
Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
TAIPEI—For years, nearly all of the world's iPhones and iPads rolled off the assembly lines of a single company: Foxconn. — It was a famous partnership between two outsize personalities— Steve Jobs,...
The talented Mr Green: How FWD.us lost New York, Elon Musk, and the tech moral high ground
At the end of April, FWD.us president Joe Green and angel investor Ron Conway, a FWD.us supporter, convened a lunch meeting with about 40 members of New York City's tech community at the swish offices...
In Blue: Start Experience Changes
I can now confirm that most of the rumored coming changes to the Start experience in Windows 8.1 “Blue” are correct. And I've got a few screenshots to help demonstrate how these changes are implement...
With August, Yves Behar Brings Fine Design to a “Smart” Door Lock
If the next big thing is the Internet of Things, Yves Behar wants in. And he'll get there the most obvious way: Through your door. — The industrial designer, known for the look of One Laptop Per Ch...
Dish Increases Its Bid for Clearwire
Dish Network Corp. has increased its bid for mobile-broadband operator Clearwire Corp., topping the offer Sprint Nextel Corp. raised last week. — Late Wednesday, Dish offered to acquire Clearwire fo...
Windows Phone app for PCs updated with sync improvements and iTunes podcasts support
Microsoft is taking its Windows Phone App for Desktop out of preview today, while adding in some additional features. The application, that lets Windows Phone users sync media between a phone and PC ...
WWDC Expectations
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is only a couple of weeks away and everyone is wondering what the company will unveil during the keynote address. As much as we all have long wish lists...
Max Levchin's New Plan: To Get You Pregnant (And Improve Health Care in the Process)
When I called PayPal co-founder Max Levchin last week, we talked about ovulation cycles, not payment cycles. — That's because Levchin's newest start-up involves an iPhone app aimed toward helping wo...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on how fast Twitter innovates, relationships with developers and Jack Dorsey
Today at the D11 conference, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke on a variety of topics including platform security, its relationship with broadcasters and how fast it's innovating.
The unbearable lightness of what Tim Cook says
Apple's CEO exercised his ability to out-wait his interviewers at AllThingsD. — FORTUNE — In trying to cover Tim Cook's roundly criticized performance at a major technology conference Tuesday evenin...
Facebook Acquisition Talks With Waze Fall Apart
After months of negotiations, Facebook is no longer in talks to acquire Waze, the Israel-based social mapping and navigation startup, according to sources familiar with the matter. — The two compani...
Spotify launches Discover, a news feed of recommendations from people you follow
30 million monthly users strong, Spotify finally gets serious about social — Nearly six months ago, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage and admitted that the service's discovery features were lacki...
Americans spend 58 minutes a day on their smartphones
New data from Experian Marketing Services' Simmons® ConnectSM mobile and digital panel sheds light on the way smartphone users spend time using their phone, with the average adult clocking 58 minutes ...
Critical Ruby on Rails bug exploited in wild, hacked servers join botnet
Attackers are exploiting an extremely critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails framework to commandeer servers and make them part of a malicious network of hacked machines, a security researcher sa...
HTC One, BlackBerry Q10 Launching Nationwide On Wednesday, June 5th
A bit of good news this morning as word just arrived that T-Mobile is planning to release the HTC One nationwide on June 5th. That's very welcome news considering the original retail/branded launch t...
Sony's Bread and Butter? It's Not Electronics
TOKYO — Sony is best known as a consumer electronics company, making PlayStation game consoles and televisions. And it loses money on almost every gadget it sells. — Sony has made money making Holl...
AMD bridges road to ARM with new low-power x86 server chips
Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company's direction. — The ...
Microsoft loads botnet-crushing data into Azure
C-TIP gives ISPs near-realtime access to MARS data — Microsoft is plugging its security intelligence systems into Azure so that service providers and local authorities can get near-realtime informat...
Here's How Facebook Will Invade Your TV with Product Placement
Facebook's TV ads are still young, experimental, and a bit strange. But not for long: the site is launching an old-school product-placement campaign to buy its way onto your favorite television show....
Marissa Mayer Is Bringing Back the Internet Portal. Here's Why
Since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo last year, there's been a lot of talk about how the famously detail-oriented ex-Googler will “refocus” the company. But it's becoming increasingly clear ...
Samsung readies first R&D center in Finland as it outsells Nokia in its home market for first time
Samsung is going all out to best Nokia in its home market of Finland. Fresh from an IDC report claiming that Samsung outsold Nokia in Finland during Q1 2013 — a notable first …
Microsoft Vows To Support Indie Developers on Xbox One
A report last week that the next Xbox console won't allow independent game developers to self-publish on the Xbox One gave people yet another next-gen Xbox thing to stew about. But Microsoft's Xbox c...
Passing 50M monthly users, Aviary announces its first international expansion to Tokyo slated for June
Photo-editing service Aviary announced today that it has passed 50 million monthly active users, a 100 percent growth in the past six months. With all of its success …