Apple Acquires Local Data Outfit Locationary
Last September Grant Ritchie, CEO of crowdsourced location data company Locationary, penned an article for TechCrunch describing five challenges Apple faces as it builds out its new mapping service. ...
Huawei spies for China, says ex-CIA head
The former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, Michael Hayden, believes Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei Technologies is a significant security thre...
New Nexus 7 leak points to Android 4.3, dual cameras and wireless charging (update: on sale July 31st)
A few days back, a lovely tipster sent us in some shots that strongly suggest a shiny new Nexus 7 will be hitting shelves next week for $269. Granted, that's for the 32GB model …
Moto X to be revealed on August 1st in New York City
Motorola is set to reveal its highly-anticipated new Android smartphone, the Moto X, on August 1st. We've received an invite for an event in New York City with the teaser “Come experience the new Mot...
Google's Chrome app launcher now available for all Windows users
Though there's no official word from Google yet, it looks like the Chrome launcher has come out of developer preview mode and into full release, at least for Windows. On our own PCs, the installation...
Evernote for iPhone and iPad Get Shortcuts, Related Notes and Skitch Support
For the latest Evernote for iPhone and iPad update (5.4), we're adding features that will help you rediscover your notes, jump to the content that's important to you, easily annotate just about anythi...
Google Cut 5,383 Jobs At Motorola Last Quarter
Google cut 5,383 jobs at Motorola Mobility last quarter, according to its earnings report released last night. — AndroidBeat was the first site we saw to spot this nugget from the release: — On a ...
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Renews Authority to Collect Telephony Metadata
As indicated by a previously classified court order disclosed by the media on June 5, 2013, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorization requiring the production of certain telephony meta...
New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data
Staking out new ground in the noisy debate about technology and privacy in law enforcement, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the police will now have to get a search warrant befor...
Netflix presses ahead with HTML5, as free software activists call for boycott
Netflix is pushing ahead with efforts to get rid of Microsoft's Silverlight plugin and play video straight in the browser instead. The company first introduced HTML5-based video streaming on Google's...
Gmail's compose window now has a full-screen option, and a switch to set it as the default
Google today announced a big change to Gmail's compose window: a full-screen option and a switch to set it as the default. The new feature is rolling out worldwide “over the next couple of days.”
Apple's Dev Center has been down for over 24 hours, keeping developers from downloading SDKs and iOS 7 beta
At 12:51 PM EST yesterday, we noticed that Apple's Dev Center website had stopped working and was serving a “We'll be back soon” error. 24 hours later, and nothing has changed.
U.S. Music Sales Down As Streaming Up 24% To 51B Tracks In 6 Months; Harlem Shake Bumps Its Way To The Top
As questions continue to swirl around just how well artists get paid through streaming music services like Spotify — and what they can do to improve that — Nielsen today released numbers …
Gigya: Only 2 Percent Of Social Sharing Happens On Google+
Despite a reportedly growing user base, Google+ isn't popular when it comes to sharing content on social networks. — A new report from Gigya says that only two percent of social sharing happened on ...
Bitcoin company acquisitions begin: Gambling site SatoshiDice sells for $11.5m (126,315 BTC)
Blockchain-based betting game SatoshiDice has been sold for 126,315 BTC, which at the time of writing was worth around $11.47 million. — SatoshiDice (S.DICE), which claims to be …
Adobe Launches PhoneGap 3.0 With New Plug-In Architecture, APIs And Better Tools
Adobe today launched version 3.0 of its PhoneGap open source mobile app development platform. PhoneGap has long been one of the most popular tools for developers who want to write cross-platform mobi...
Apple Said to Buy HopStop, Pushing Deeper Into Maps
Apple agreed to buy online transit-navigation service HopStop.com Inc., people with knowledge of the deal said, seeking to improve mapping tools after a rocky debut for its directions software last ye...
Jump, Edge, or Next: which mobile carrier's early upgrade plan screws you the least?
Caveat emptor — Within the space of little more than a week, three of the largest carriers in the US have introduced completely new plans to go alongside traditional contract agreements and prepaid ...
Would you pay again for iOS 7 versions of your favorite apps?
iOS 7 is coming, and with it an all-new design language. Apps will have to update to reflect that change, or risk looking old and outdated, and lose their place to newer, hotter updates and upstarts.