Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
Sales of 31 Million iPhones Set New June Quarter Record — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 third quarter ended June 29, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35...
Verizon Reveals The $99 Motorola Droid Mini, $199 Droid Ultra, And The $299 Droid Maxx
As if we didn't already have enough Motorola phones to wait for, Verizon showed off a trio of new Motorola DROID smartphones at a (surprisingly cozy) event in New York City.
Ember for Mac: a digital scrapbook from the makers of Clear
Realmac Software, the developer behind Clear, has just launched its latest creation: Ember, a Mac app for collecting photos, sketches, drawings, and mockups. The app is a lot like Evernote, but focus...
Exclusive: Moto X Camera's New Minimalist User Interface And Swipe Gestures
Are you sick of hearing about the Moto X yet? Too bad: it's just over a week until Motorola's official debut, and the Good Ship Google is as leaky as ever. The latest tidbits of information from an ...
Move fast, break things: The sad story of Platform, Facebook's gigantic missed opportunity
It was May 24, 2007 at Facebook's inaugural developers conference f8, held at the San Francisco Design Center. Mark Zuckerberg, just 10 days past his 23rd birthday, was pacing the stage.
Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It
No one took ownership of Google Reader internally because it wasn't a top priority for Larry Page and his inner circle of lieutenants. And if you aren't working on something that the boss cares about...
Flipboard Brings Its Mobile Magazines To The Web
Flipboard started on mobile devices, but the magazine app is moving to the web today with the launch of a new site. Its 75 million registered users will be getting access to its superior formatting a...
AT&T: $32 Billion in Revenue, 6.8 Million Smartphones Including Record Number of Androids
AT&T said on Tuesday that it sold a record number of Android smartphones last quarter, helping fuel adjusted earnings of 67 cents per share on revenue of just more than $32 billion.
Polycom's CEO Andrew Miller resigns after company finds irregularities in his expense report
SAN JOSE — The chief executive officer of Polycom, Andrew Miller, resigned on Tuesday as the top boss of the videoconferencing company after the company discovered irregularities in his expense report...
The Web's longest nightmare ends: Eolas' patents are dead on appeal
Web pioneers united to stop “interactive web” patents at an East Texas trial. The Eolas patents were uniquely threatening to the Web and drew Tim Berners-Lee's personal attention. The inventor of th...
Viber Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army
Viber has confirmed a situation earlier this morning in which Viber appeared to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (a pro-government group of computer hackers aligned with Syrian President...
Dating app Tinder briefly exposed the physical location of its users
Tinder, the popular mobile dating app that matches people based on how they rate each other's photographs, briefly exposed the physical location of its users to other people on the service. — The lo...
DataStax Readies For IPO, Raises $45M For Modern Database Platform Suited To New Data Intensive World
DataStax has raised $45 million for its scalable, high-performance database platform. The Series D round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Draper Fisher Jurvetson …
Xbox Live service down for Xbox 360, Windows 8 and Windows Phone
It looks like Microsoft is once again having some issues with its Xbox Live service today. The Xbox Live status page shows that some people might have issues with signing into the online service from...
Opera: iOS still king of mobile ads, iPhone alone has equal reach and more value than Android
It's been a year since browser-maker Opera extended its series of insightful Internet studies with the introduction of its first State of Mobile Advertising report, and the company today provided its ...
Intel teases a new Haswell processor for thin, potentially fanless tablets
Intel's new Haswell processors are quickly earning a reputation for huge gains in battery life and power efficiency, but the company had another surprise up its sleeve. Today, Intel's announcing a li...
Twitter's One-Two Punch Now Lets All US Advertisers Target People Who Just Saw Their TV Commercials
Hit 'em with a television commercial, then with a Twitter ad to really drive the message home. That's the promise of Twitter's TV Ad Targeting it's rolling out to all US advertisers today after its b...
China Report: Device and App Trends in the #1 Mobile Market
Smartphones and tablets have gone from being the latest gadgets for relatively affluent people in relatively affluent countries to ubiquitous devices in mainstream use in many countries around the wor...
Nokia Lumia 625 official: Entry-level LTE Windows Phone with a 4.7-inch display (video)
The rumors were (unsurprisingly) true. Nokia's revealed its biggest phone to date, with a screen measuring in at 4.7 inches. It's the Lumia 625 and the series has certainly grown a fair bit since th...
Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's Q3 2013
The forecasts of 58 Apple analysts — 38 Wall Street professionals and 20 independents — FORTUNE — The results of Fortune's quarterly survey of Apple (AAPL) analysts are in. The professionals are, a...
Facebook to Let You Say Why You Hide News Feed Posts
It's not exactly a dislike button, but Facebook soon plans to roll out ways to better understand why you don't like something in your News Feed. — Currently, when you hide something in your News Fee...
Samsung Updates Exynos 5 Octa (5420), Switches Back to ARM GPU
In the first part of our series on ARM, we mentioned that with every major microprocess design ARM tries to choose 3 licensees to get early access to technology. It's very clear that Samsung was amon...
The White House Blasts The ‘Amash Amendment’ That Would Hamper The NSA's Surveillance Powers
In a terse statement late Tuesday evening, the White House blasted the so-called “Amash Amendment” that would limit the National Security Agency's ability to collect data on personal phone communicati...
Google Brings Cloud Print To Windows, Makes Printer Sharing Easier
Google today launched a number of updates to Cloud Print that finally bring it to Windows and make it easier to share printers with others. — Even Google knows that there are still some occasions wh...
Pentagon Offers Compromise on Spectrum Sought by Wireless Carriers
Decision Is a Win for Mobile-Telecom Companies — The Defense Department has offered to compromise with wireless carriers in a fight over valuable spectrum now used for purposes like training pilots ...
Alibaba targets China's living room with new platform to power smart TVs and set-top boxes
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has today announced that it has developed a smart TV operating system and is working with a number of partners, including Cisco and Chinese manufacturers …
We're Number 9! U.S. Slips in Internet Connection Ranking
Here's something to add to your decline-of-the-empire files: the U.S. is falling further behind in world rankings of average Internet connection speeds. — That's the verdict from the latest State of...
Apple Granted 49 Patents Covering Lightning, Mac mini
It's a huge day for Apple in respect to newly granted patents. The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 49 granted patents for Apple this morning.
Google Settles Vanity-Searcher's Class-Action Lawsuit For $8.5 Million
Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it leaked the names of search users via referrer headers, according to court papers filed on Friday in San Jose, Calif.
Is Ibrahim Balic Behind the Apple Dev Center Hack? Maybe Not.
Is Ibrahim Balic behind the hack that drove Apple to take its Developer Center offline for a few days and completely overhaul the security measures protecting it? — Balic, an independent security re...