Apple Can't Add Galaxy S4 to Samsung Patent Lawsuit
Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost its bid in a lawsuit to add Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it alleges to infringe its patents. — The decision yesterday by U.S. ...
Google Is Developing Android Game Console
Google Inc. is developing a videogame console and digital wrist watch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet company seeks to spread the...
Air attack: Aereo CEO talks up his tech, prepares Chicago launch
Armed with his DVRs and tiny antennas, Aereo says the shift in TV has begun — Chet Kanojia, Aereo's founder and CEO, strolls past the rows and rows of DVRs, TV antennas, and transcoders, and smiles ...
Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say
The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Armywide. — Presidio employees said the site...
Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App
Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the Digg iOS app. An Android app is expected to...
Ex-Pentagon general target of leak investigation, sources say
Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright was the second-highest ranking member of the U.S. military, and a key Obama adviser who served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Legal sou...
Microsoft: Kinect for Xbox One will not work on PCs
This Kinect is designed to only work on an Xbox One. You'll need a different one to plug in to your PC. — When Microsoft announced a special next-generation Kinect for Windows pre-release developer...
Facebook announces Beta Program for its main Android app, ironically uses Google Groups
In a meeting with journalists today, Facebook announced it's offering a Beta Program for its app on Android, allowing users to test upcoming versions. The first beta will be available today.
Cloudsweeper tells you how much your Gmail is worth to a hacker
The value of your data is the driving force behind much of the malware and malicious behavior on the internet. If an attacker can gain access to a store of information, it can be sold off piece by pi...
Hon Hai reveals iPhone-compatible smartwatch
Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry — the main manufacturer of Apple's iPhones and iPads, better known by its trading name Foxconn — showcased a smartwatch on Wednesday that can be connected wirelessl...
FTC commissioner calls for way to ‘reclaim your name’
Consumers should be able to retake control of data collected by websites and data brokers, Brill says — IDG News Service - U.S. consumers should be able to reclaim control of their personal data fro...
Microsoft Seeks End to Dinosaur-Era Software Upgrade Cycle: Tech
Microsoft Corp (MSFT)., which for decades has refreshed its popular Office corporate software just once about every three years, says it will soon switch to weekly updates. — It's a radical shift as...
Google Earth 7.1 for Android and iOS, now with Street View
Whether you're on foot looking for the best sushi place in a new neighborhood or you'd like to do some virtual archaeology around Pompeii, we're all explorers of the world around us in our own way.
Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head
NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38 million …
EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records
Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a ‘Bigger, Faster and Better’ Biometrics System — San Francisco - As the FBI is rushing to build a “bigger, faster and better” biometrics database...
Cisco teases Insieme launch but instead announces a new switch and fabric
Cisco on Wednesday put executives from its spin out Insieme onstage and billed it as a launch for the secretive engineering effort, but instead of providing hard details on that effort, they delivere...
PS4 and Xbox One high volumes no problem for AMD
AMD's Saeid Moshkelani on his company's next-gen “clean sweep” and high-end PCs driving innovation — AMD owns the next-generation of consoles. In the past, game consoles were more custom and piecem...
Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet
Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors. — The company, which has been in stealth mode since …
EU to Cut Mobile Phone Roaming Charges by Up to 36% Next Week
The European Union will cut the price mobile carriers such as Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) and France Telecom SA (FTE) can charge customers for checking e-mail and watching videos while traveling by 36 pe...
Mark Suster's GRP Partners goes big: Announces new $200M fund and rebrands as Upfront Ventures
Venture capitalists GRP Partners announced today that it has closed its fifth fund, bringing in $200 million to help early stage startups grow. With news of the fund the Los Angeles-based firm …
Verizon wraps up LTE rollout; plans all-VoIP phone launch for late 2014
Verizon Wireless's LTE juggernaut has hit its 500th market, leading the carrier to declare on Thursday its rollout is “substantially complete.” Verizon's 4G network now covers 298 million people and ...
Marc Andreessen, Richard Stallman, And Aaron Swartz Were Just Inducted Into The Internet Hall Of Fame
It's hard to imagine life without the Internet. But it didn't spring into existence on its own. A whole lot of people made it happen. — The Internet Society just released its list …
Amazon AutoRip arrives in the UK, offers free MP3 versions for over 350,000 CDs
American Amazon shoppers have been offered free MP3 versions of their back catalog of music purchases since January and now Brits are getting the same deal, with vinyl tracks thrown in for good measur...
Nokia JobLens: Experience augmented reality job hunting on your Lumia
Summary: Nokia just released a new Windows Phone application that uses their LiveSight augmented reality technology to help you find the perfect job. Salary data, neighborhood info, contact relations...