Google Glass Had a Vulnerability for Being Taken Over Via QR Code, But It's Been Fixed
A Google Glass security vulnerability that allowed an outsider to take control of the wearable computing device via QR code has been fixed. — Basically, since Glass allows users to connect to Wi-Fi ...
Exclusive first look: Pics and video of the new Nexus 7
The new Nexus 7 sports an updated look, adds a rear camera — Here we go, folks. The first probable pictures of what we believe is the long-awaited successor to the Nexus 7. We've had to do a litt...
How Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Plans to Tackle Video
Yahoo took the unprecedented step of broadcasting live video of its second-quarter earnings call. Perhaps it's fitting, then, that CEO Marissa Mayer talked up video as a top priority for the Internet...
Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Others Call for More NSA Transparency
Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will tomorrow demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government ...
Hunter Walk And Satya Patel's Homebrew Is A $35M Seed-Stage Fund To Invest In The “Bottom Up Economy”
Former Googler/YouTuber Hunter Walk has been making angel investments for some time now, and recently began observing that although he was one of the smallest parts of the cap table …
Tumblr iPhone app fixed after plaintext password goof spotted
Tumblr has been forced to rush out a patched version of its iPhone and iPad apps, and has advised all users to change their password, after researchers discovered the apps had been transmitting login ...
6,000 mobile developers: Android most popular, iOS most profitable, Windows Phone most ‘next’
The biggest mobile developer study in history with 6,000 respondents from 115 countries says that while iOS developers make an average of $5,200 per month in app revenue and Android developers pull in...
Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” — Freewill, Rush — If you happen to be a sports fan (I am), one of the coolest features to emerge in our lifetime is the ability to prog...
Acer preparing 8-inch Windows 8 tablet successor to address complaints
Acer is preparing to release a refreshed version of its Iconia W3 tablet. After only being announced in early June, and recently released to retailers, Acer's 8-inch Windows 8 tablet has been critici...
Lumia 625 leaks with LTE and Nokia's biggest screen ever
Nokia is preparing to launch a Lumia 625 in the coming weeks with a 4.7-inch display and LTE support. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have confirmed to The Verge that the handset will debut as on...
Smartphone Upgrades Slow as ‘Wow’ Factor Fades
Fewer Customers Trade in Devices—A Potential Problem for AT&T, Apple and Others — Fewer people are upgrading their smartphones—a trend that could make it harder for companies from AT&T Inc. to Apple...
Russia says ‘nyet’ to Apple's iPhone
Why the big three Russian mobile phone carriers cut their ties with Apple. — FORTUNE — There's good money to be made selling cell phones in Russia, a country with more than 180 million mobile subscr...
Universities Face a Rising Barrage of Cyberattacks
America's research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with milli...
Almunia Says The EU Antitrust Ball Is In Google's Court
We are still waiting for the antitrust commissioner in Europe to make his next formal statement on negotiations with Google, after the search giant in April …
Driverless cars to be tested on UK roads by end of 2013
Driverless cars will be tested on public roads by the end of 2013, says the UK government. — So far, UK trials of the autonomous vehicles have taken place only on private land. — Driverless cars a...
UK spies aren't breaking law by using PRISM data, security oversight committee claims
The British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee has rebuffed claims that UK intelligence services broke local law by taking PRISM data from the Americans. However, the committee also sai...
Google buys nearly 15 acres in Palo Alto
Google Inc. appears to be staging a return of sorts to Palo Alto, where the tech titan opened its first office in 1999. — A spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday that the Mountain View-based company has sna...
In another Aereo win, court refuses to rehear New York case
Appeals court clears the way for the TV-over-the-Web service to continue around New York City. But broadcasters aren't giving up their legal battle against the Barry Diller-backed service and its amb...
Dish hands over Hopper DVR to mobile-app developers
The pay-TV operator is opening up the programming for apps that work with its ad-skipping DVR to third-party developers — The third-party Thuuz Sports app integrates Hopper's API, so subscribers can...