Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal?
Here's a fun combination to ponder: The world's most powerful media company and America's most popular sport. — That could happen if Google buys the rights to the NFL's Sunday Ticket package, the al...
Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years for WikiLeaks disclosures
Bradley Manning's court-martial reached an end today, with Army Colonel Denise Lind sentencing him to 35 years in prison. The WikiLeaks source, arrested in Iraq in 2010 for releasing nearly 700,000 g...
Netflix Introduces ‘My List,’ A Personalized Instant Queue For Users All Over The World
Netflix is continually working to make its streaming video service more personalized, adding features that will make individual users keep coming back for more. The company's latest effort in that di...
Doubts cast over developer interest in BlackBerry as lone developer accounts for a third of all apps
In what could be the latest in a series of reality checks for BlackBerry, a report has emerged claiming that just one app developer accounts for a third of all apps on the company's app store.
Insight: Peter Chou - Is he HTC's savior or obstacle to revival?
(Reuters) - Now in his tenth year as CEO of HTC Corp, Peter Chou is lauded as the architect of the Taiwanese firm's award-winning smartphones. But as the company's fortunes have dived, some insiders ...
Comcast Threatens to Sue TorrentFreak for Copyright Infringement
Over the past several years we have covered many copyright disputes, but now we have become part of one ourselves. — Last week we wrote a news article based on public court records, revealing that P...
Disney's ESPN Holds Preliminary Talks for Web-Based TV
Walt Disney's ESPN sports network has held preliminary talks to offer programming on a Web-based TV service like those proposed by Google, Sony and Intel. An Internet TV provider would have to pay as...
Tech In A “Surprising Slump”? Hardly
What is the forecast for tech? It depends on whom you ask. For some, it's contraction. For others, the money is flowing. Cisco is in the tank and has layoffs planned, even as Microsoft mints new b...
Google's Stealthy Helpouts Live Video Commerce Service Makes Its First Public Appearance, Landing Page Now Live
Last month, our own Rip Empson broke the news that Google was working on Helpouts, a Hangouts-based marketplace “ that enables individuals and small and large businesses to buy and sell services via l...
The Great App.net Mistake
Before the great gold rush of venture capital and public offerings, there was an idea that the Internet should not just change the world, but actively make it a better place. Profit and empowerment, ...
NSA gathered thousands of Americans' e-mails before court struck down program
The National Security Agency unlawfully gathered as many as tens of thousands of e-mails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a now-discontinued collection program, accordi...
Motorola settles trademark dispute with Xoom Corp, will phase out tablet's name
Get a good lawyer and sometimes they'll tell you that your best hope is to settle a case, rather than participate in a courtroom brawl. That's exactly the route that Motorola Mobility is taking to re...
Yahoo #1 Web Property Again In US, First Time Since May 2011 [Updated]
ComScore just released its monthly Top 50 US Web properties list today. I've generally stopped looking at this list. But it was pointed out to me that Yahoo is back at number one. — When was the l...
Apple patents 3D gesture UI for iOS based on proximity sensor input
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday published an Apple patent for a method of generating and manipulating a three-dimensional object on a computing device, with the process controlled by s...
Apple IPad's China Market Share Slumps as Samsung Tablets Gain
The iPad's share of China's tablet-computer market plunged by more than 20 percentage points in the second quarter as Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) built on its lead in smartphones to cut into Appl...
Yahoo, Foursquare In Talks Over Data Partnership
Foursquare sells a lot of ads, but the biggest upside for the location-sharing start-up may be in selling its data. And sources say Yahoo is interested. Foursquare, once criticized for not being abl...
Get 4K video from your phone's USB port with the new MHL 3.0 spec
Simultaneous charging is one of MHL's advantages over Slimport and Miracast. — MHL Consortium — The Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) standard already lets you connect certain phones, tablets, and...
Bitcoin Spawns China Virtual IPOs as U.S. Scrutiny Grows
The Bitcoin craze is catching on in China. — Sun Minjie is a 28-year-old Internet worker who lives in Beijing. Eager to profit from growing demand for the digital currency, Sun has invested more th...
Here's how Beats Music is curating its subscription service
Beats Music, the yet-to-be-launched digital subscription service spearheaded by Jimmy Iovine, wants to edge out competitors like Spotify and Rdio through human curation, but the company hasn't really ...