Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands
San Francisco federal judge tells Mountain View company to comply with FBI's warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about law's constitutionality.
Tumblr's Creative Director Quits
Jacob Bijani joined Tumblr as one of its original, most formative employees (and its first designer/product engineer) back in 2008—when a $1.1 billion Yahoo buyout was unfathomable. Now he's leaving....
After Four Years, Twitter Platform Director Ryan Sarver to Depart
Ryan Sarver, Twitter's director of platform who worked closely with the company's partner ecosystem over the past four years, announced on Friday that he plans to leave the company. — “After four in...
Mac Pro Retail Supplies Drying Up Ahead of WWDC
Apple's WWDC conference is almost upon us, and with the expectation that the company will unveil new Macs at the event, I decided to do a bit of checking around on retail stock levels. What I found, ...
Google says it won't approve any Glass apps with facial recognition until it has protections in place
Today, Google posted a notice to its Google Glass channel on G+ that lays out its plan to prevent abuse of facial recognition on the head-mounted computer. It's solution?
Camino browser project discontinued after ten years
Pour one out for Camino. The Mac-only browser, born a decade ago, is no longer under active development. — Camino was a free, open-source browser for the Mac, built on Mozilla's Gecko engine. Unli...
Acer $400 ‘PC’ will run Android, pack Intel's Haswell chip
Acer is about to announce a PC that runs Android, showing that Windows and PC will not necessarily be synonymous in the coming months. — The Acer DA220HQL AIO will be priced just above $400 at most ...
Microsoft launches iPad comparison site for Windows 8 tablets
Microsoft is launching the second phase of its advertising against Apple's iPad this week. Following an iPad mini commercial parody, a new site aims to convince consumers that Windows 8 and Windows R...
DirecTV Said Among 3 Hulu Bidders at $1 Billion or More
DirecTV (DTV), the second-biggest U.S. pay-TV service, and two other bidders are each offering at least $1 billion for Hulu LLC, the online video website, said people with knowledge of the bid. — Th...
Every '90s Tween's Favorite Angst Outlet Xanga Will Shut Down Unless You Pony Up $60K
Xanga, one of the original online diary hubs for tweens too cool for Livejournal but not so cool that they didn't know to eschew blogging altogether, may soon shut down.
Rumor: Apple Is Considering Launching An Ad Exchange
Is Apple planning to launch an ad exchange, the way Facebook and Twitter have done? — That's the rumor. — We heard it from an executive who is one of the biggest players in online advertising. — ...
CBS acquires TV Guide Digital's TVGuide.com
CBS acquired TV Guide Digital from Lionsgate. The mobile application provides expanded features, such as a watch list that alerts viewers when they can watch a favorite TV show or actor. (TV Guide D...
Why Reddit Is Betting On Original Content
A Move to Reach Marketers in a Tech-Savvy Community — The “80s cliché is that video killed the radio star. Now it's quickly killing other priorities as a growing number of media concerns put greate...
Megaupload founder wins access to evidence seized in raid
(Reuters) - A New Zealand court granted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom access on Friday to all evidence seized by police in a 2012 raid, bolstering the Internet entrepreneur's fight against extradition...
BT dumps Yahoo! email after hacking claims
BT has dumped Yahoo! as email provider to its six million broadband customers following months of customer complaints over hacking. — Marissa Mayer is battling to restore Yahoo!'s reputation for tec...
Apple's iPhone sales reportedly up 400% in India thanks to aggressive pricing strategies
The institution of installment payment plans and deep discounts in India has netted Apple up to a fourfold boost in iPhone sales over the past four months, said investment firm Credit Suisse …
The Beauty of Xbox One: A New Approach to Design
“Xbox has always had something to say. It's always been bold with a strong personality,” said Carl Ledbetter, Creative Director, Industrial Design. “Xbox One needs to serve our most loyal gaming fan...
Microsoft to settle Vringo lawsuit over search-related patents
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp(MSFT.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing it of infringing patents that enable Internet search engines to place advertisements most effectively. — Vringo Inc(VRNG.O)...
Movie2K Down: The Mystery and Possible Reincarnation Revealed
While the world's largest torrent indexes tend to grab most of the headlines, a relatively new range of sites have been scooping up huge numbers of users during the past few years. — Avoiding the re...
Google's Eric Schmidt Invests in Obama's Big Data Brains
During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama's reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google's (GOOG) executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the ca...
Google exec sees Google Fiber as a ‘moneymaker’
Google Fiber head Milo Medin says the company is not just conducting an expensive research project in Kansas City and other places getting the technology. He expects the gigabit fiber networks to mak...
Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet
At Google, Chris Zacharias spent his “20 percent time” building a new version of YouTube just for places with slow internet connections. It was called Feather, and the basic idea was to build a YouTu...
Heroku publishes API for its platform cloud
Amazon piggybacker wants kids of its own — Heroku has released the public beta of a platform API to help its developers build apps and services that sit on top of its PaaS, which in turn sits on Ama...
Dell urges shareholders to vote for CEO's offer
(Reuters) - Dell Inc urged shareholders on Friday to vote for the $24.4 billion buyout offer led by founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell at a special meeting on July 18, saying the bid was superio...
Hon Hai sets up display R&D company in Japan
(Reuters) - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, said it set up a research and development company in Japan for displays and touch panels, its latest effort to strengthen its display business. ...
Global deal to eliminate tech product duty fast approaching
Summary: According to U.S. tech firms, a deal between nations worldwide to eliminate duty on new tech products is on the horizon. — Charlie Osborne — A deal between China, Europe, the U.S. and a d...
Sina testing subtle censorship ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
What happened? — On May 31, 2013 at 7am, we observed that searching for keywords that are normally blocked, for example, "" (June 4th incident), surprisingly returned some results and no censorship ...
Nokia Lumia 928 Review: Flawed Beauty, Best Camera
The nicest thing you can say about any gadget is that it changed the way you use that type of gear for the better. The 928 did that for me with smartphone cameras. It will for you, too, probably. I...