Google is done selling the Nexus 4 in the US
The Nexus 4's run in Google Play is now over. On Monday, Google's online storefront sold out of the 16GB version of the flagship phone in the US, and a trusted source with knowledge of the company's ...
iPhone 5C review: A cheaper iPhone that doesn't cut corners
The iPhone 5C is kinda, sorta, technically a new product — colorful, cute, with a variety of interchangeable color cases much like the recently released Motorola Moto X — but under the hood it's reall...
Amazon adds AirPlay streaming, IMDb integration to Instant Video iOS app
There are many ways to get a leg-up in the online content war, and one of them is to make sure your services are easy to use with competitor hardware. To that end, an update to the Amazon Instant Vid...
Virgin Mobile's YouTube channel uses ‘BlinkWashing’ to change the ad whenever you blink
Virgin Mobile's YouTube page has one of the coolest things I've seen online in some time. It is using a webcam technology it calls “BlinkWashing” to track your eye movements and change the ad wheneve...
Apple offering ‘last compatible version’ of iOS apps for older hardware
With iOS 7 arriving tomorrow, Apple is extending some love to the owners of older iOS devices that have been left behind. New compatibility features, first spotted on Reddit, will now kick into actio...
White House petitions FCC to require all carriers to unlock all mobile devices
Obama administration urges FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices — Several months after calling for legislation to unlock cellphones, the White House filed a petition with the Federal Com...
Microsoft Initiates Massive $40 Billion Share Buyback Program
Shortly before market opening, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced a new massive buyback program as well as a dividend increase. The new buyback program comes after the expiration of a previous $40 bil...
Apple takes redesigned iCloud.com with iOS 7-like design out of beta
Ahead of tomorrow's launch of iOS 7, Apple has taken the wraps off of a brand-new iCloud website. The new website went into beta earlier this year, and it is completely redesigned to match the simple...
Bing gets a new logo and modern design to take on Google
Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a new look. A year in the making, Bing is dropping its curly blue logo for a modern design that closely matches the rest of Microsoft's recently redesigned p...
New Google Wallet App Moves Past NFC and to All Major Carriers. iPhone Version on Tap?
Google is launching a new version of its Google Wallet app for Android today and there are some big changes. — Most notably, the app will now be available on all Android devices running version 2.3 ...
Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit
FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor and Director of Operations Danny Seigle. — FindTheBest.com — Most business owners sued by patent trolls don't talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typi...
Experts see potential perils in Brazil push to break with US-centric Internet over NSA spying
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous …
Tiger Global Ups Investment in Creator of WordPress.com
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, doesn't feel any pressure to take his Web publishing company public. — With friends like Tiger Global Management, why would he? — Tiger, the tech-hungry ...
State-Sponsored Hacker Gang Has a Side Gig in Fraud
An elite group of nation-state hackers running roughshod through the financial sector and other industries in the U.S. has pioneered techniques that others are following, and has used sophisticated me...
YouTube starts testing Chromecast support for third-party websites
YouTube quietly started to add support for Chromecast to its embedded web player, allowing users of Google's TV dongle to beam videos displayed on third-party websites straight from their browser to t...
“That's The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard Of.”
When Twitter broke the news last week about its forthcoming IPO, I got a bit sentimental. In 2006, when Twitter was entering the world as a side project of the podcasting startup Odeo, I had just lef...
Facebook and Twitter Blocked Again in Iran After Respite
TEHRAN — Internet users in Iran lost access Tuesday to Facebook and Twitter, a day after they were surprised to find that they could get on the sites without having to evade a government's firewall th...
UK to test emergency mobile alerts
Californian police alerted people to a wanted vehicle using a targeted message — A system which sends emergency alerts to mobile phones within a specific area is to be tested in the UK. — The mess...
Hightail buys adeptCloud to make file storage safer in the cloud
File storage company Hightail acquired security company adeptCloud today, continuing its quest to compete with major names in the cloud file-sharing industry. — Hightail was attracted to adeptCloud ...
Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips
This is really interesting research: “Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans.” Basically, you can tamper with a logic gate to be either stuck-on or stuck-off by changing the doping of one transistor....
Occipital's New Structure Sensor Turns Your iPad Into A Mobile 3D Scanner
The folks at San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people — the company's RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 Panorama …
Nokia holding special event on October 22nd, 6-inch Lumia 1520 likely
Nokia is planning to hold a special event on October 22nd. The Finnish smartphone maker revealed on Twitter today that it plans to announce “more innovation,” with a mysterious save the date image.