Online iPhone 5s orders open at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Sept. 20, in-store sales begin locally at 8 a.m.
While it won't be available to preorder, the iPhone 5s will hit Apple's online store at 12:01 Pacific next Friday, Sept. 20, while Apple's retail stores will begin selling the device when they open at...
Microsoft execs were aware of an Android Lumia prototype before Nokia deal
Behind Microsoft Deal, the Specter of a Nokia Android Phone — SEATTLE — Before Microsoft reached a deal to buy Nokia's phone business, there was a possibility that Nokia could have switched its smar...
Twitter Releases Spotify App
Remember when Twitter bought We Are Hunted, whose creators then built Twitter's #music app, which was initially super popular in part due to its cool design and the fact that everybody uses Twitter, b...
Apple's Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can't ‘Take the Fifth’
There's a lot of talk around biometric authentication since Apple introduced its newest iPhone, which will let users unlock their device with a fingerprint. Given Apple's industry-leading position, i...
Huawei to Keep Making Smartphones Running Windows Phone
Comments Come as Microsoft Set to Produce Own Hardware After Buying Nokia Handset Business — STOCKHOLM—A Huawei Technologies Co. executive said Thursday the Chinese company will continue to make sma...
FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
It wasn't ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hos...
Google Creative Lab Launches Coder To Turn Raspberry Pi Into A Basic Web Development Platform
Coder, a new project that's coming out of Google's Creative Lab, is an open source tool that allows you to easily turn a Raspberry Pi into a basic web server with a web-based development environment.
Google knows many of the world's Wi-Fi passwords thanks to backup defaults on Android devices
Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world — If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password.
Facebook Sunsets Credits, Transitions To Local Currencies To Boost International Payments
Facebook launched its virtual currency Credits in June 2011 to simplify payments. In reality, Credits caused headaches for international payments due to fluctuating exchange rates.
China Apple Stores to start taking iPhone 5s & 5c reservations Sept. 17, pickup Sept. 20
While the iPhone 5c became available for pre-order today in several countries via Apple's website, Apple is currently not offering pre-orders for the iPhone 5s or reservations for pickup at Apple Stor...
Insight: In Silicon Valley start-up world, pedigree counts
(Reuters) - When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe, a Romanian immigrant who cam...
Gov't standards agency “strongly” discourages use of NSA-influenced algorithm
The NIST building in Boulder, Colorado. — Quinn Norton/Wired — Following revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) covert influence on computer security standards, the National Instit...
Why is Samsung throwing money at startups?
As Microsoft and Google start building phones, Samsung tries to buy some software skills — In a swank office building, waiters handed out fried pickles and caviar-covered sushi. Shiny new LCD scree...
The FISA court will release more opinions because of Snowden
Call it the Edward Snowden effect: Citing the former NSA contractor, a federal judge has ordered the government to declassify more reports from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.