Nintendo dropping Wii U price to $299.99 ahead of Xbox One and PlayStation 4 launch
The Wii U hasn't been selling quite as well as Nintendo might like, and September 20th it's giving the new console a $50 price cut that'll bring it down to $299.99. Earlier this month …
Exclusive: Google+ Hangouts goes HD as it switches from H.264 to VP8. Next up, WebRTC.
Noticed any differences when using Google's Hangouts video chat lately? If you did, then you may be one of the lucky users who has already received an upgrade to 720p HD video.
Apple Said to Plan First Tokyo Retail Store Since 2005
Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to open a store in Tokyo's upscale Omotesando shopping district as early as March, according to a person familiar with the plans. — Construction is scheduled to be completed ...
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HTC Develops China-Focused Mobile Operating System
Taiwanese Handset Maker Works With China in Bid to Revive Sales — TAIPEI—HTC Corp. is developing a mobile software system specifically for Chinese consumers, people familiar with the project say, as...
Apple Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim, A Company That Does Mobile Media And Data Compression
Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer graphics while minimizing memory requireme...
Apple looking to turn the iPhone into an intelligent universal media, ‘smart home’ remote control
An Apple patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday describes a method in which a portable device, like the iPhone, can save, manage and recall entertainment and “smart home” ...
Facebook Sees Big Gains in Global Mobile Ad Market Share
Google to take home half of $16.65 billion worldwide mobile ad market — Facebook's continued emphasis on mobile monetization, along with its users' ongoing shift toward mobile devices, is resulting ...
Facebook and Unity's joint-SDK aims for easy cross-platform deployment
When people say “Facebook game,” there's a certain stereotype that immediately pops into mind, and for a lot of people, that stereotype is some kind of FarmVille clone or a match-three puzzle game.
Trendrr Joins Twitter
Over the last five years we have led the way in working with real-time data and television, unlocking the power and value of engagement around TV and creating compelling media experiences around conte...
The Time Warner Cable TV App For Xbox 360 Is Now Available, With Access To 300 Channels
The TWC TV app for Xbox Live, which was announced back in June, is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Microsoft's partnership with Time Warner Cable is a significant part …
Twitter rolling out new conversations UI for Web, iPhone and Android
Twitter has revamped the way it displays conversations on the Web, iPhone and Android by adding a vertical line to indicate the tweets are connected and displaying the first tweet in a discussion abov...
Apple is the company most targeted by patent trolls
Apple, HP and Samsung have been attacked the most by so-called “patent trolls” within the last five years, a Silicon Valley lawyer said Tuesday. But recent legislative activity may be weakening their...
Grooveshark Signs With Sony, Steps Over that Wavy ‘Piracy’ Line
What's the difference between YouTube and Grooveshark? — That's not the start of some terrible geek in-joke but a question that Grooveshark founder Sam Tarantino has always been happy to answer, and...
Car Sharing Startup Local Motion Gets $6 Million Investment, Steven Sinofsky On Its Board
Steven Sinofsky is joining the board of car sharing technology startup Local Motion. — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (AH) is investing $6 million in Local Motion. Sinofsky recently joine...
Foursquare's impressive new Windows 8 app: Good for Foursquare, great for Microsoft
Foursquare's new Windows 8 app may not be the biggest deal for Foursquare, but it's huge for Microsoft. — With the app, which was officially announced in June, Foursquare takes some of the best part...
Shopify Launches Point-Of-Sale System To Unify Online And Brick-And-Mortar Retail
Ottawa-based Shopify, the online storefront provider that helps around 65,000 retailers reach their customers on the web, including Tesla, Crossfit and others, today announced a new retail point-of-sa...
Steve Ballmer and the Art of Managing a Monopoly
Steve Ballmer hasn't been getting much love recently. On Friday, when he announced that he plans to retire as Microsoft's C.E.O. at some point within the next year, the firm's stock had its best day ...
Marc Andreessen, Pat Gelsinger in verbal VMworld brawl
Netscape legend and VMware CEO clash on security, ARM vs. x86 and role of cloud — VMworld 2013 VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and graphical-browser-inventor-turned- venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen have...
What Microsoft and Google's YouTube row says about the future of web development
Summary: The Google/Microsoft YouTube dispute tells you more about the way software for the mobile internet is being developed that you might have thought. — When it comes to Google and Microsoft's ...
Android's Hugo Barra Departs Google for China's Xiaomi
One of Google's top Android executives is leaving the company. — Hugo Barra, whose official title is vice president of product management for Android, has been one of the more public faces of the mo...
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Why Twitter's new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO
No one in Silicon Valley has any doubt that San Francisco-based Twitter is on a road to a public offering. Given its current valuation — estimated at around or over $10 billion — and the amount of mo...
T-Mobile Scheduling Employee Blackout Dates For September 20th-22nd?
I do love a good rumor and this one should make all you iPhone fans happy as I'm hearing whispers T-Mobile is planning blackout dates between September 20th and 22nd. Like all good rumors, we should ...
Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr
Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products. — After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone ...
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki Have Split
Brin and Wojcicki on Gavin Newsom's interview show in 2012. — Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile couples, are living apart.
Instapaper gets complete redesign after Betaworks purchase, new mobile apps soon
Instapaper is in the midsts of an overhaul. After being purchased by Betaworks this past April, the first major changes to the read-it-later service since creator Marco Arment gave up control of the ...
White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry Anti-Piracy Group
Victoria Espinel, the nation's copyright czar until two weeks ago, has been named president of an anti-piracy trade group that lobbies governments on behalf of the software industry. — Espinel resig...
Unity Game Engine To Get Official 2D Game Support And A Built-In Ad Solution
Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, run anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. — At the company's UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things …
Nexus 7 (2013) now available in UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Japan
While those of us in the US and Canada enjoyed a brief moment of exclusivity, Google's latest 7-inch tab — the all new Nexus 2013 — is finally making its way overseas. Starting today, those of you in...
BlackBerry Is A Failed State
What happens now that BlackBerry appears to be doomed? Just think of it as a country. Welcome to BlackBerria. Don't drink the water. — BlackBerry, as BlackBerry users know it, is finished. The c...
Hello art world: Smithsonian acquires first piece of code for design collection
iPad app Planetary has just been added to the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's collection, but the institution has also gone as step further by acquiring the app's code.
Web Sales Remain Small for Many Retailers
Nearly two decades after the Web revolutionized shopping, many big retailers are still struggling to turn the Internet into a big part of their business. — Their progress is on display in new corres...