Next iPad Takes After Thin, Light Mini
The same touch-panel technology that made the iPad mini thin and light will likely feature in the next iPad, which is currently being produced by Apple Inc.'s Asian suppliers, according to people with...
City of London halts recycling bins tracking phones of passers-by
The City of London is halting a scheme that used recycling bins to track people as they walked by with their smartphones. The head of Renew London, which was behind the operation, wrote in an email, ...
BlackBerry Says It's Looking For A Buyer
BlackBerry, the embattled Canada-based handset maker, today finally called a spade a spade. The company halted trading in its shares to announce what some might argue …
Hold This Cat: HTC and Robert Downey Jr. kick off $1 billion ‘Change’ campaign (video)
“Big things ahead?” Well, it looks like HTC's earlier tweet wasn't a cheeky hint at the upcoming 5.9-inch One Max; but rather, it was a tribute to the sheer scale of the new “Here's To Change” global...
New Windows 8.1 build addresses first-time user complaints
Microsoft is expected to finalize its Windows 8.1 update in the coming days, but a near-final build has leaked online offering a closer look at some of the improvements. The 9741 build, a test versio...
20 injured at ill-conceived LG G2 promotional event
Looking to capitalize on buzz surrounding its brand new G2, LG held a public event in Seoul Friday where it teased that up to 100 people would walk away with the new flagship smartphone. What it didn...
Firefox OS for the world! ZTE to sell $80 Open smartphone through eBay
Have you been jonesing for a chance to play with Mozilla's Firefox OS smartphone operating system, but you don't live in one of the countries where it's been launched over the last month or so?
Regulator Examines Bitcoin Practices
New York Issues Subpoenas to Firms Tied to Bitcoin — New York's top banking regulator has issued subpoenas to roughly two dozen companies associated with bitcoin as part of a wide-ranging inquiry in...
Android is better
It was just meant to be a quick experiment. I started using a Nexus 4. I was going to go right back to my iPhone after a week. I was designing more and more Android interfaces at Twitter and realiz...
Kim Jong Un visits ‘cell phone factory’
Kim Jong Un visited on Saturday the Pyongyang factory where North Korean cell phones are supposedly made, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. — Photos of the visit, released by KC...
Mega to run ‘cutting-edge’ encrypted email after Lavabit's ‘privacy seppuku’
Kim Dotcom's Mega.co.nz is working on a highly-secure email service to run on a non-US-based server. It comes as the US squeezes email providers that offer encryption and Mega's CEO calls Lavabit's s...
After Years Of Bootstrapping, MyFitnessPal Raises $18M Round From Kleiner Perkins And Accel
MyFitnessPal, a service that allows users to track their calories and share that information with friends, has raised $18 million in its first round of funding. — This seems like one of those storie...
Facebook Makes Mobile Pages More Functional With OpenTable Reservations And Rovi TV Guide Info
Facebook's on a mission to make mobile Pages more functional. Following a Yelp-ish redesign in April, iOS, Android, and mobile site updates coming later today add an integration with OpenTable …
Leaked press shots show Sony's upcoming 20.2MP, Carl Zeiss camera lens attachment for iPhone & Android
Last month a report from often reliable sources claimed that Sony was readying a new Carl Zeiss camera lens with a 20.2 MP sensor that would attach onto a smartphone and connect over WiFi or NFC.
First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released
After half-a-year of delays and roadblocks, the U.S Secret Service today released the first 104 pages of agency documents about the late coder and activist Aaron Swartz, including a brief report on Sw...
Microsoft's bet on touch PCs fails to pay off
Buyers reject touchscreen notebooks, spooked by higher prices and concerns about value of Windows 8's touch UI — Microsoft's bet that touch would propel Windows 8 has run into a major snag, an indus...
Windows 8.1 to be made available in October
Microsoft is currently testing near-final versions of Windows 8.1, but the company won't release the final update publicly until October. According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, the sof...
Three years in, Google has paid researchers over $2 million in security rewards and fixed more than 2,000 bugs
Less than two weeks after Facebook announced its Bug Bounty program has paid out over $1 million in two years, Google has announced it has crossed the $2 million mark in three.
Apple to support third-party USB power plug trade-ins beyond U.S. & China
Last week, we reported that Apple, will soon kickoff a trade-in-program for third-party or counterfeit USB power adapters in its retail stores and select authorized resellers. The program will allow ...