Introducing Quip
Today, we are extremely excited to launch Quip. Quip is a modern word processor that enables you to create beautiful documents on any device — phones, tablets and the desktop. If you haven't already...
Dropcam Snaps Up $30M for Connected Video Cameras
A recent generation of Web-connected hardware startups — Withings, Fitbit (unofficial), and now Dropcam — have in the past few months raised $30 million each to scale their businesses. Funnily enough...
Microsoft Office for Android now available, but not for tablets
Microsoft is extending its Office mobile software to Android this week, bringing basic editing to smartphones running Android 4.0 or higher. Following the release of Office for iPhone, the Android va...
FileMaker dropping Bento database app for Mac and iOS
FileMaker is dropping Bento, the consumer-friendly database app for OS X and iOS, in order to focus on its core products. The Mac app was first released in 2008 to generally positive reviews, followe...
Zynga sues ‘Bang With Friends’ maker for trademark infringement
Zynga is going after hookup app Bang With Friends, suing its maker with trademark infringement over its use of the phrase “with friends” — common to a series of Zynga games including Words With Friend...
Nvidia Shield review
Is Android ready for a portable game console? — Last summer, I bought an iPad 3. I convinced myself I'd use it for everything: showing off wedding photos, reading all those neglected articles I sav...
Moto X To Use Nano-SIM Card, SIM Tray Leaks In Hong Kong
Moto X leaks again and again. This time is about the Nano-SIM tray of the Moto X. It was leaked earlier in an Asian country, Hong Kong. It looks like Moto X is available in different parts of the wo...
Dell Inc. Offers to Move Vote on Buyout, but Refuses to Bend on Voting Rules
A special committee of the Dell Inc. board said on Wednesday that it would be willing to accept the latest takeover bid by its founder, worth $13.75 a share, if he dropped his demand for a change to t...
Nintendo swings back to net profit, but it sold only 160K Wii U consoles in past quarter
Swinging back into a net profit, Nintendo today reported financial results for the first quarter ended June 30. But the company reported a sizable operating loss, and it sold only 160,000 Wii U game ...
Revealed: NSA program collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data — • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches — • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history
Google gives AT&T the boot, will supply 7000 US Starbucks locations with WiFi starting next month
After a brief announcement back in June that it had partnered with Starbucks to offer free, unlimited music through its new Google Play All Access streaming service, Google today announced …
Viacom Demands New Judge in YouTube Copyright Fight
An appeals court is primed to review the long-running dispute a second time. — After swinging and missing twice, Viacom is telling an appeals court it needs an umpire who isn't blind to YouTube's al...
Google's Privacy Balancing Act
Internal Debates Arise Over Using Collected Information and Protecting Privacy — In 2011, Google Inc. Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page asked executives to develop a new, simplified privacy ...
Intel's homage to Raspberry Pi: The much pricier Minnowboard
Open source, or open your wallet? — The huge popularity of the British-designed Raspberry Pi has caught Chipzilla's attention, and so you can now buy a similar bare-bones x86 PC named Minnowboard wi...
Apple fixing bug that allows fake charging stations to hack iPhones
(Reuters) - Apple Inc's next software update for its iPhones and iPads will fix a security flaw that allows hackers to engage in spying and cyber crimes when the victim connects the device to a fake c...
Motorola Reveals More X8 Chip Details
What the heck is the X8? Motorola's new processing system powers the Droid Ultra, Droid Mini and Droid Maxx, and it's anticipated to be under the hood of Motorola's new Moto X, coming tomorrow. — T...
Apple's upcoming A7 iPhone chip will have Samsung components, code inside iOS 7 reveals
While Apple is using an A6 processor for this new iPad mini, developer Nick Frey has shared with us that Apple is also developing a new A7 processor. A reference to an s5l8960x (likely A7) processor ...
NSA Director Heckled At Conference As He Asks For Security Community's Understanding
When NSA Director Keith Alexander appeared at the Las Vegas security conference Black Hat Wednesday morning, he hoped to mend the NSA's reputation in the eyes of thousands of the conference's hackers ...