NSA Tries To Justify Its Surveillance Programs With Ridiculous Assertions
As President Obama was laying out his “plan” in response to the public's concerns over NSA spying, both the DOJ and the NSA released some documents defending the various programs. I would imagine it ...
Samsung faces sales ban on older devices in U.S.
The U.S. International Trade Commission says Samsung infringes on a pair of Apple patents with some of its older phones. — The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled in favor of Apple in a de...
T-Mobile Pulls iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 From Its “No Money Down” Promotion
If you want to get the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S as part of T-Mobile's “no money down” offer, you'd better make some plans to head to a store pronto. — T-Mobile confirmed to AllThingsD that, starting Sa...
Judge Considers Limits on Apple's Future E-Book Deals
A federal judge proposed on Friday that Apple be required to negotiate future contracts with major publishers separately and at defined intervals as part of its punishment for illegally conspiring to ...
Twitter joins Washington's influence economy, forms PAC
Twitter on Friday became an official member of Washington's influence economy, with the formation of a political action committee and the appointment of its first registered lobbyist. — The seven-ye...
Windows Phone update in testing, includes rotation lock and text syncing to PCs
While Microsoft's latest Windows Phone 8 update is slowly rolling out to existing handsets, the company is prepping new changes that will be made available by the end of the year.
Rumor: Amazon developing Android console to release this year
Online retail giant Amazon will enter the Android console market later this year, according to Game Informer sources. In a brief report, the site claims people with “knowledge of the in-development h...
Armstrong Confirms “Hundreds” Of Layoffs At Patch, 400 Sites Shuttered Or Partnered Off, And A New CEO
We reported yesterday that AOL's hyper-local news service would lose hundreds of employees today, and now we have confirmation from a well-placed Patcher privy to the call …
Asus to manufacture Nexus 10 refresh
The largest of Google's three Nexus devices is soon due for a refresh, and it looks like Asus will be the manufacturer this time around. — Google's Nexus program is something of a bidding war in the...
ASUS pulls out of Windows RT due to financial losses and ‘industry sentiment’
This isn't a huge shock, given that ASUS has already publicly expressed woes about poor sales of its Windows RT products, but CEO Jerry Shen's latest comments have a surprising edge of finality to the...
Bitcoin Ticker Arrives on Bloomberg Terminal (But only for Employees for Now)
Bitcoin ticker finally arrives on the famed Bloomberg terminal, which is central to all data on Wall Street and beyond. This has only been released internally so far to the employees, perhaps for tes...
Skolkovo, Russia's Massive Project To Emulate Silicon Valley, Gets A $4B Commitment
Skolkovo, the much debated public effort by the Russian government to kickstart a startup culture inside the country, said it secured another 135.6 billion ruble ($4 billion) commitment from the gover...
Apple's Tim Cook, tech execs meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance
President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door m...
Exclusive: BlackBerry open to going private, sources say
(Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is warming up to the possibility of going private, as the smartphone maker battles to revive its fortunes, several sources familiar with the situation said. — Chief Execut...
In ebook case, Apple wants a stay, and DOJ argues publishers are conspiring again
In advance of a Friday afternoon conference where a federal judge, Apple and the DOJ will meet to discuss Apple's punishment in the ebook pricing case, both sides submitted new filings and Kobo and th...
Apple faces three major legal showdowns Friday
Apple and Samsung continue to their legal squabbles over which company is the innovator and which one is the copycat. (Park Ji-Hwan / AFP/Getty Images / July 27, 2010) — Get your legal scorecard re...
New Google Nexus 7 having GPS problems
Several owners of the new Google Nexus 7 have resorted to posting on online forums about a problem they are having with their new tablet. The problem has to do with the GPS system on the slate. Acco...
Why Google Glass costs $1,500 now and will likely be around $299 later
If the $1,500 price tag for Google Glass is a budget buster for you, don't give up hope just yet. When the wearable gadget arrives on the consumer market it could cost as little as $299 according to ...
Nexus 7 2 release date UK: Asus confirm 28 August
The Nexus 7 2, or 2nd generation Nexus 7 as it is also known, will launch in the UK on 28 August, Asus has confirmed to Pocket-lint. The UK release date comes just one month after the US launch, but ...
Nvidia drops Tegra revenue forecast as Windows RT woes loom
Tegra revenue will fall by as much as 40 percent this year, the company said — Nvidia is expecting Tegra chip revenue to drop by as much as 40 percent this year, with the company indirectly blaming ...