Apple's Next iPad Mini Will Likely Have ‘Retina’ Display From Samsung
TAIPEI—Apple Inc.'s suppliers are gearing up for mass production of a new iPad mini in the fourth quarter that will likely feature a high-resolution screen from Samsung, people familiar with the matte...
FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
Law-Enforcement Officials Expand Use of Tools Such as Spyware as People Under Investigation ‘Go Dark,’ Evading Wiretaps — Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routine...
Netflix individual profile rollout brings up to five unique experiences per account
Netflix is finally ready to deliver individual profiles for its streaming service, meant to satisfy households with shared accounts by providing everyone their own settings, viewing history and (where...
Wearables and payments: What Apple might get from its Passif Semi purchase
Apple [AAPL] has acquired small semiconductor company, Passif Semiconductor — reading that company's published patents suggests Cupertino may be looking to use Passif's technologies in future wearable...
Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo?
Marissa Mayer is sitting in URLs, the Yahoo! (YHOO) cafeteria, making the case for the future of a company that almost everyone in Silicon Valley views as doomed. Employees swarm around her, assembli...
Is Tumblr Shrinking?
Yahoo bought Tumblr because Tumblr has millions of young users. But are they sticking around? — David Karp, founder and CEO of Tumblr, photographs the Nasdaq screen in Times Square after ringing th...
Google extends Windows Phone calendar and contacts syncing until December 31st
Google has granted new Windows Phone users another extension to access its Sync service until December 31st. The company had originally planned to drop support for the Exchange ActiveSync protocol on...
BBM For Android/iOS Betas Rolling Out In The Beta Zone
It seems that BlackBerry are moving forward with the cross-platform version of BBM as we have learned that there are a small number of users that are getting the chance to test out the Android, and iO...
Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
• Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden — • GCHQ expected to ‘pull its weight’ for Americans — • Weaker regulation of British spies ‘a selling point’ for NSA
Senators Caution White House Over ITC's Looming iPhone Ban
On Aug. 5 — Monday of next week — an International Trade Commission import ban on older iPhones and iPads found to infringe one of Samsung's standards-essential patents will go into effect — unless th...
Foursquare Selling Its Location Data Through Ad Targeting Firm Turn
Check-in Data Being Used to Contextualize Ads on Facebook — As part of its efforts to generate new sources of revenue, Foursquare is working with ad-tech company Turn to allow advertisers to use its...
HP launches Android-based SlateBook ‘PC’
HP's Android ‘PC’ has arrived. It packs Nvidia's latest Tegra 4 processor and can be used as either a tablet or a laptop. … HP SlateBook x2. HP is branding the SlateBook as an Android ‘PC.’ — (Cre...
Yahoo Paid Between $35M and $40M for Lexity E-Commerce App Platform
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo forked over between $35 million and $40 million in cash to buy Lexity, the e-commerce app platform startup. (The companies had declined to outline t...
Hulu Plans to Hook Subscription Service Into Google Chromecast
Online TV joint venture says it is ‘actively working’ with Google to add Hulu Plus access to $35 streaming adapter — Google's cheap Chromecast Internet TV adapter already lets users stream free Hulu...
AT&T unseats Verizon in the JD Power rankings for the 1st time
Verizon Wireless may be losing some of its edge when it comes subscriber good will. Verizon has long dominated J.D. Power's customer care rankings for mobile carriers, but on Thursday the global rank...
Dialogue controls your smartphone from your Mac, lets you make and record phone calls
As Apple continues to refine its mobile and desktop operating systems, the company has slowly integrated messaging and other mobile-centric features into Mac OS. With an Apple ID, Mac and iOS owners ...
Evan Spiegel And Bobby Murphy Say Alleged Snapchat Co-Founder Never Had Equity
Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy have said in new court documents that alleged co-founder Reggie Brown never had equity in the company. — In February, Brown filed a suit against Sn...
Cloud Analytics Player Tidemark Lands $13 Million Round Led by Tenaya Capital
It seems that I tend to check in on Tidemark, the cloud-based company that specializes in business intelligence and analytics, about once every 11 months, and every time I do, there's always something...
German publishers opt in to Google News, despite lobbying for opt-out law
Having originally campaigned for lawmakers to change the way Google includes their content in its News service, German publishers have decided they will continue using it after all.
USB 3.1 10Gb/s Specifications Gets Published, Available for Developers
SuperSpeed USB 10Gb/s - Ready for Development — The USB 3.0 Promoter Group on Wednesday announced the completion of the USB 3.1 specification which adds enhancements to enable SuperSpeed USB to oper...