Your Feedback Matters - Update on Xbox One
Last week at E3, the excitement, creativity and future of our industry was on display for a global audience. — For us, the future comes in the form of Xbox One, a system designed to be the best plac...
HBO GO & WatchESPN Come to Apple TV
iTunes Viewers Now Purchasing Over 800,000 TV Episodes & Over 350,000 Movies Per Day — Apple® today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV® joining the great line...
Best Buy Is Recalling Thousands of MacBook Pro Batteries Over Fire Risk
Best Buy is recalling 5,100 third-party replacement MacBook Pro batteries after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported 13 separate cases in which the batteries caught fire, at least one ...
As Fab Raises Another $150 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation, E-Commerce Industry Looks On Warily
Here's an interesting exercise I tried recently when talking with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists involved in e-commerce: “I say ‘Fab’; you say?” — “Inspiring.” — “Ballsy.” — “Ambitious.”
Microsoft-Nokia Advanced Talks Recently Broke Down
Microsoft Corp. was recently in advanced discussions with Nokia Corp. about a purchase of the Finnish company's device business, according to people familiar with the matter, in a marriage that could ...
Microsoft Said to Add Qualcomm as Surface RT Supplier
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), seeking to break into the market for tablet computers, will update its Surface RT using chips from Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), people with knowledge of the company's plans said. — ...
Microsoft gives a sneak peek of Office Web Apps real-time co-authoring across Windows, Android, and iOS devices
Microsoft today released a sneak peek of how Office Web Apps real-time co-authoring will work across Windows, Android, and iOS devices. Unfortunately, the company still …
The Price to Pay for Facebook's Free Wi-Fi? A Scrap of Privacy
The idea of offering people free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates began at Facebook as a one-off experiment, a project by two engineers during an all-nighter in May 2012. Since then, ...
LeaseWeb: Statement on former client MegaUpload
On Twitter today we saw Kim Dotcom tweeting some statements saying LeaseWeb wiped data from dedicated servers formerly in use by his storage service MegaUpload. I think this calls for a reaction. — ...
Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords
Summary: Although iOS generates seemingly random passwords for its hotspots to eliminate the use of ‘default’ passwords, researchers at a German university have found that they are able to break these...
Google's Effort to Skirt Regulation May Invite More Scrutiny
Google's motto is “don't be evil.” But its recent acquisition of Waze, reportedly for $1 billion in cash, shows that just because you're not evil, it doesn't mean you can't be aggressive in pushing t...
HTC Butterfly s revealed: 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, UltraPixel camera sensor (video)
HTC's just pulled back the proverbial curtains on the Butterfly s at its Taiwan launch event. It'll arrive boasting an identical-sounding 5-inch 1080p display, front-facing BoomSound stereo speakers ...
Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome Gets Gmail Clipping
Web Clipping is one of our favorite Evernote features. With a simple click of our browser extension, you can save just about anything you see online into your Evernote account for permanent safekeepi...
Feedly Cloud Goes Live To Replace Google Reader's Backend, Power New Web Version Of Feedly's App
In ten days, Google's RSS feed-reading service Google Reader will shut down for good. In its wake, developers working on products in the RSS ecosystem have been stepping up to deliver apps, tools and...
Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data To Cloud Storage
Google just added a new service to Google Cloud Storage that will allow developers to send their hard drives to Google to import very large data sets that would otherwise be too expensive and time-con...
Amazon Wants to Create Appointment TV Online, Not Follow Netflix Binging
Though Netflix may have emerged as the frontrunner when it comes to original streaming content, what with the successes of House of Cards and Arrested Development, don't expect Amazon to be following ...
TripAdvisor Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys GateGuru Mobile App For Real-Time Travel Info
Travel portal TripAdvisor continues to push ahead with its mobile and social acquisitions: today the company announced that it has acquired GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time information o...
You Know What's Cool? 1 Million Advertisers At Facebook
Facebook just hit 1 million advertisers, a milestone that signals that it has become a mainstream advertising channel for small and medium-sized businesses. — OK, so maybe cool isn't the right word,...
Leaseweb Wipes All Megaupload User Data, Dotcom Outraged
Ever since the raids in January last year, the fate of Megaupload users' personal files has remained uncertain. — It's been a frustrating situation for the millions of affected users and one that ha...
Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video
EverySteveJobsVideo (via The Loop) today released a never-before-seen video of Steve Jobs in 1994, while he was at NeXT, pondering his legacy in the personal computer field and whether he thought he w...
Netflix will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, as its international expansion slows
Love Amsterdam? So does Netflix: The streaming service revealed that it's going to launch in the Netherlands later this year. — Netflix revealed the next target of its ongoing international …