HP's new gesture-control laptop is the first with Leap Motion
Touchscreens are now fairly standard in Windows 8 notebooks, but HP's new Envy 17 Leap Motion SE has integrated yet another type of input: touchless. The Envy has Leap Motion's gesture recognition te...
Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85
Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Japanese businessman credited with transforming Nintendo into a world-leading video games company, has died aged 85. — Mr Yamauchi ran the firm for 53 years, and was its second...
Apple Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share—and the New iPhones
and the New iPhones — Apple's doomed. — This is what you hear and read. Sure, it was a hell of a run—iPhone, iPad, all that—but it's about to end, and fast. If you need any proof, just look at Ch...
Google Wallet finally makes its iOS debut, sans NFC
Hey iPhone users, Google Wallet is here! The payments app has finally arrived for iOS devices, bringing with it transfers to friends, loyalty card tracking and nearby offers. Tap-to-pay is notably a...
Microsoft now offers up to $350 in iPhone/iPad trade-in promotion, adds Android and BlackBerry devices
Microsoft ups the ante on its iPhone, iPad trade-in promotion — Summary: A new Microsoft Corporate Buyback promotion, seemingly open to anyone, allows users to get up to $350 to use …
Sony Plans To Launch Gaikai PS3 Library in 2014
Sony will use the cloud technology to provide PS3 games to stream to PS4 and Vita. — In a roundtable interview at Tokyo Game Show today, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said that Son...
GoDaddy Buys Afternic To Beef Up Its Domain Registry Marketplace
GoDaddy has made another acquisition, its fourth in 14 months: it has bought Afternic, a specialist in aftermarket domain sales — that is, reselling domain names that are already owned. Afternic was ...
Watch Mark Zuckerberg Talk With Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet
Below, you can watch the full video of Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet's interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of Facebook, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Full editorial covera...
Nokia's Former Chief to Collect $25.5 Million From Microsoft Deal
It was Stephen Elop who, as Nokia's chief executive, deepened the Finnish telecommunications firm's ties to Microsoft by agreeing to bind itself to the Windows Phone operating system. — Now that Mic...
Gartner: 102B App Store Downloads Globally In 2013, $26B In Sales, 17% From In-App Purchases
Ongoing trends in smartphone adoption — which this year finally outnumbered the amount of non-smartphones getting purchased — will drive 102 billion app store downloads this year …
Plaid launches with $2.8M and an API for financial data
Plaid, a San Francisco startup that aims to make an API available for banks to share financial data with developers has launched with $2.8 million from Spark Capital, Google Ventures, NEA, Felicis Ven...
Google Glass Not Expected To Reach Europe For Years
Google's slow rollout of Google Glass, not to mention one big technical challenge, means it'll be years before the device is available publicly in Europe. — That's what two reports are saying after ...
Simplenote reborn: the first great notes app is back
A brand new vision for iOS, Android, Mac, and web — Mike Johnston had an itch. — Simplenote, his once-beloved note-taking app, had been gathering dust for the better part of two years. Johnston h...
Deliv Raises $6.85 Million To Bring Same-Day Delivery To A Store Near You
Investors have recently piled millions into same-day delivery startups such as New York's Zipments and San Francisco's PostMates, and now Palo Alto firm Deliv has become the latest beneficiary …
Device-spanning Ubuntu Touch OS gets October 17 launch date
The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone crowdfunding experience may be dead, but the dream of merging phone and PC lives on. Ubuntu Touch, the form factor-spanning mobile operating system intended to po...
Dow Jones confirms split with Mossberg and Swisher, plans to launch new tech conference
Wall Street Journal and All Things D Decide Not To Renew Agreement At The End Of the Year — For years, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal has enjoyed working with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher …
iPhone 5s Teardown
One...Three...G...Three...G again...S!...Four...Four again!...And another S!...Five!...S!...Five?!...C! Thankfully Apple is in the technology business, not the education business. We can only imagin...
Pinterest begins monetization; “experimenting” with “promoted pins” from select businesses
Planning for the future — Just over a year ago, my wife and I welcomed our son into the world. Since his first day, I've been pinning fun things we can do together …
Yes, Apple Is Working on a Fix for the iOS 7 Lock Screen Hack
When it debuted Wednesday, iOS 7 brought with it a slew of bug fixes to Apple's mobile operating system, but it brought a new vulnerability as well — one that can be exploited to bypass the lock scree...
RSA Tells Its Developer Customers: Stop Using NSA-Linked Algorithm
Amidst all of the confusion and concern over an encryption algorithm that may contain an NSA backdoor, RSA Security released an advisory to developer customers today noting that the algorithm is the d...
Tragedy: Amazon's First CFO and Internet Pioneer Joy Covey Dies in Bike Accident
Photo by Bob Williams, from Joy Covey's Facebook profile — I met Joy Covey in the mid-1990s, which is a very long time ago in Internet terms, on a trip I made to Seattle to visit the then-fledgling ...
Source: Twitter IPO will likely come before Thanksgiving
Twitter in talks to add banks to IPO, set fees: sources — (Reuters) - Twitter is in talks to add additional banks to its underwriting syndicate for its upcoming initial public offering and in the pr...