One Microsoft: Company realigns to enable innovation at greater speed, efficiency
Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding changes in the senior leadership team at the company. — Today, we are announcing a far-reaching r...
Nokia Lumia 1020: a 41-megapixel Windows Phone available on July 26th for $299.99 at AT&T
After weeks of leaks, Nokia is making its Lumia 1020 handset official on Thursday. The Finnish smartphone maker has just unveiled its latest flagship Windows Phone on stage at an event in New York.
Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
• Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism — • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch — • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablets, base model to cost $349
Microsoft is planning to cut the price of its Surface RT tablets. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Surface plans have revealed to The Verge that the price cut could occur as early as next week, with...
IFTTT comes to iPhone with a crisp app featuring native Photos, Reminders and Contacts channels
The digital glue service IFTTT is finally launching an iPhone app and it brings with it a set of new channels specific to Apple's platform and a lovely mobile platform for both building and using its ...
For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference
Since its founding in 1992, Defcon has been a venue where anarchists, geeks, and employees of three-letter federal agencies became unlikely comrades under a live-and-let-live credo that placed the lov...
Deutsche Telekom to launch Firefox OS devices in Poland on July 12; Germany, Hungary, and Greece this fall
Mozilla today announced that Poland will be the second country to get Firefox OS devices, starting as soon as tomorrow. Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile Poland will begin offering …
Instant Bitcoin Purchases at Coinbase
You know what's really satisfying? Being able to buy Bitcoin without a lot of hassle. That's what Coinbase has always let you do. But you know what's really awesome? Being able to buy Bitcoin inst...
LG unveils world's thinnest Full HD LCD smartphone panel
Measuring 5.2 inches long and only 2.2 mm thick, new display panels being developed by LG could prompt the move toward slimmer and lighter mobile devices. — LG Display is working on what it says is ...
Apple's quarter of lowered expectations: Fiscal Q3 2013
Wall Street is looking for Apple to report zero revenue growth. — FORTUNE — On April 24, the day after Apple (AAPL) reported its earnings for fiscal Q2, Cowan and Company's Matthew Hoffman published...
Three big takeaways from the Microsoft reorg
Microsoft's rumored reorg was officially announced today. Perhaps more interesting than the executive moves are the underlying themes that Microsoft unveiled in a couple of memos. The company is cle...
UpTo social networking app morphs into a modern calendar with a social twist
The default mobile calendar may seem like one of the most mundane apps on your phone, but there are dozens of startups aiming to help people better manage their work meetings, personal appointments an...
Meet Lumi, the no-effort content discovery engine from the founders of Last.fm
What do you do when you've built a product up from nothing to the point of being acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars by a massive American corporation? You take some time off.
Chairman Eric Schmidt: Google's Relationship With Apple Has Improved
On Thursday, Google chairman Eric Schmidt revealed a surprising thing: Google's relationship with Apple has improved after many meetings, he said. — He praised Apple alongside Google saying, “These ...
PCWorld Exits Print, and the Era of Computer Magazines Ends
The last of the big general-interest PC magazines is no longer a magazine. — By Harry McCracken @harrymccrackenJuly 11, 2013 — The news isn't shocking. In fact, it's sort of a shock it didn't hap...
European ISPs hit with antitrust raids
Summary: The European Commission's antitrust watchdogs have raided the offices of a number of European “internet connectivity providers”. — Jo Best — The European Commission has carried out a seri...
RIAA Wants Infamous File-Sharer to Campaign Against Piracy
Did you hear the one about the world's most infamous music file-sharer being asked to publicly extol the virtues of the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy platform? — The RIAA i...
Verizon joins Ubuntu's potential smartphone launch partners
Verizon will help “shape” Ubuntu phone OS, possibly sell the phones. Verizon Wireless today joined Canonical's “Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group (CAG),” meaning the company is exploring smartphones base...
NSA's Snowden case review focuses on possible access to China espionage files, officials say
A National Security Agency internal review of damage caused by the former contractor Edward Snowden has focused on a particular area of concern: the possibility that he gained access to sensitive file...
YouWeb Founder Peter Relan Debuts New Company Building Studio And Accelerator, 9+; Raises $2M In Funding
As we reported a couple of weeks ago, serial entrepreneur Peter Relan is sunsetting his gaming and mobile focused incubator YouWeb, which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint and others.
HP admits to backdoors in storage products
Usernames and passwords in the wild, factory resets possible — Hewlett-Packard has agreed that there is an undocumented administrative account in its StoreVirtual products, and is promising a patch ...
New peak: Amazon shares surpass $300 for first time
The rapid growth of Amazon.com was echoed Thursday on Wall Street, as the company's stock briefly topped $300 for the first time ever during the trading session. Shares rose $7.27, or 2.5 percent, to...
More Moves Abroad for Twitter's Top Brass as Three Execs Head Overseas
Three of Twitter's top execs are moving away from the company's headquarters in San Francisco, charged with overseeing international offices across multiple countries. — The changes, noted in the th...
Andreessen Says Foreign Web Co.'s Could Take Advantage of Prism Fallout
SUN VALLEY, Idaho- Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said in an interview that U.S. Internet companies may lose business to foreign competitors following revelations about Prism, the government data-...
Data Brokers Are Now Selling Your Car's Location For $10 Online
The Berkeley Marina, a stretch of park and an enclosed yacht harbor, juts into the San Francisco Bay. Visitors regularly drive there to admire the dramatic view that includes Alcatraz Island and the ...
E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon an Advantage
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade,...