Teardown Reveals Google's Moto X Costs $221 to Build
As the first smartphone to be completely designed since Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, there are a lot of expectations riding on the Moto X. — The phone, now considered the flagship of t...
Apple TV updated with Vevo, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Weather Channel, Smithsonian apps
Today, Apple has issued an over-the-air update to the Apple TV that brings several new content apps. Notably, in line with expectations, an app for the Vevo Music Video service has arrived.
Global Government Requests Report
Transparency and trust are core values at Facebook. We strive to embody them in all aspects of our services, including our approach to responding to government data requests. We want to make sure th...
Windows 8.1 is officially finished, but everyone has to wait until October 18th
Microsoft is confirming today, after recent reports, that the company has completed Windows 8.1 and is releasing it to manufacturing (RTM). The finalization of the Windows 8 update means that hardwar...
AllThingsD nears split with Dow Jones
The future of influential tech website All Things Digital is close to being decided. Reuters reported in February that AllThingsD co-executive editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg had begun discuss...
Google drops Nexus 4 price, now starts at $199
The Nexus 4 just got a lot cheaper. The company's flagship Android phone is now available for a full $100 less than it was just hours ago. The 8GB model is on sale through the Google Play Store for ...
BlackBerry Weighs Messenger Spinoff
Move Signals Firm Is Trying to Position BBM as a Valuable Asset Ahead of Potential Sale — BlackBerry Ltd. is considering spinning off its messaging service into a subsidiary that would operate with ...
“thereisnofatebutwhatwemake” — Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords
Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords — For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improve...
Jack Dorsey's Plan to Save America's Struggling Cities
Square co-founder (and Twitter chairman) Jack Dorsey started hosting events to bring together local business owners in California earlier this year. This fall he's taking the idea to places normally ...
Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means
There were doubts about being able to reverse engineer heavily-obfuscated applications written in Python. Two researchers have removed all doubt by reverse engineering the immensely popular Dropbox c...
Parallels Access puts Mac and PC apps on your iPad for $79.99
Parallels is best known for its virtualization software that lets Mac owners seamlessly run Microsoft's Windows OS. But today the company is taking up another mission: it's attempting to bring deskto...
ARM Acquires Internet Of Things Startup Sensinode To Move Beyond Tablets And Phones
As more reports of ARM-based Windows and Apple devices continue to fill the airwaves — the latest being reports of a Surface 2 and Nokia's first Windows tablet, along with upcoming iPhone handsets …
Samsung Exec confirms Note III and Galaxy Gear launch for September 4th (next week!)
Lee Young-hee, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile business, told The Korea Times that Samsung will be unveiling the Galaxy Note III and Galaxy Gear smartwatch on September 4th.
Patent seller Intellectual Ventures sets up its own lobbying effort in D.C.
As the White House and federal regulators work to crack down on so-called patent trolls, one company that's found success relying on a business model of licensing patents is building a new in-house lo...
Hacker Pleads Guilty to Selling FBI Access to U.S. Supercomputers
Cray XT4 supercomputer cluster (Franklin) has 9,660 compute nodes. Each has quad-core AMD processors running at 2.3 GHz. Franklin has 38,640 processor cores, with 8 GB of memory per node and a total...
Vine gets better with age: How screens, speed and networks are changing the future of online video
Earlier this morning when sitting in the San Diego Airport while waiting for my flight, I did what most people do these days in those situations — I peered into my phone and cycled through my various ...
The CODE Keyboard
What would you do, if you could do anything? — I don't mean in a fantasy superhero way, but in terms of resources. If someone told you that you now had the resources to attempt to make one thing ha...
Google releases a Chromecast app for iOS to help users set up and manage their $35 TV dongle
Google released an official Chromecast app for iOS devices today, making it easier for users to set up the new $35 TV dongle, switch between multiple Chromecasts and change common network settings.
Hangouts update brings support for AT&T video calling
Back in May Google announced their new messaging service to replace Google Talk, and hopefully one day Google Voice. That being their new Hangouts app. It was revealed at Google I/O, and since has b...
Instagram now offers a little thing that matters: the ability to straighten photos
As a long time Instagram member, one of the lessons I have learned is that people like photos that are straight and aren't at some awkward angles. Why, I can't tell you, but good framing …
Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth
Graham's tech accelerator, Y Combinator, has minted many big hits, including Dropbox, Reddit, and Airbnb. Here's a conversation with the start-up guru. — Paul Graham's appetite for small talk is wa...
Amazon Aims to Court Developers With In-App Merch Deals
It's hard out there for an app store. If you aren't Apple or Google, you're trying to court users to your platform. You're trying to promote your storefront. And, above all else, you want to keep y...
AT&T to sell Nokia Lumia 925 for $99; Pre-orders start tomorrow
AT&T subscribers shopping for a Windows Phone have a handsome new option to consider. — The carrier today announced that the Lumia 925, Nokia's first Windows Phone 8 smartphone sculpted from both po...
Following Google's lead, Mozilla considers rejecting long-lived digital certificates
Mozilla is considering the possibility of rejecting as invalid SSL certificates issued after July 1, 2012, with a validity period of more than 60 months. Google already made the decision to block …