Apple TV 6.0 released with iTunes Radio, AirPlay from iCloud, iTunes Music Store, more
Everyone's favorite hockey puck “hobby” has received a huge software update today. Apple TV 6.0, which has been in beta testing since June, brings with it iTunes Radio, AirPlay from iCloud …
Apple: Demand for New iPhones Has Been “Incredible”
Apple said that Friday that it is sold out of some iPhone 5s models amid what it described as “incredible” demand. — “Demand for the new iPhones has been incredible and we are currently sold out or ...
Blackberry announces 4,500 layoffs, quarterly $950M loss, new enterprise focus
BlackBerry announces preliminary second quarter fiscal 2014 results and provides business update — Company expects GAAP net operating loss of approximately $950 million to $995 million …
Senator Al Franken voices privacy concerns over Apple's Touch ID in letter to Tim Cook
Apple has gone out of its way to emphasize the secure, locked down nature of its Touch ID fingerprint scanning system, but Senator Al Franken still believes the technology “raises substantial privacy ...
Ballmer calls Google a ‘monopoly’ that authorities should control
While Microsoft unveiled its new Bing logo and design this week, CEO Steve Ballmer opted to highlight his concerns over Google's business practices yesterday. During a presentation at Microsoft's fin...
Another iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones—And This One Has No Quick Fix
And This One Has No Quick Fix — Apple has yet to fix one nasty bug in the lockscreen of iOS 7, and the next one has already appeared. — On Friday, Karam Daoud, a 27-year old Palestinian living in t...
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Twitter, First Tweet About Visiting Palo Alto Apple Retail Stores
Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently joined Twitter with the username @tim_cook, with fellow Apple executive Phil Schiller retweeting him as a means of verification. The account was first created back i...
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts — A technique called deep learning could help Facebook understand its users and their data better. — WHY IT MATTERS
Siri is just the start; Multipath TCP will improve connection reliability for more apps over time
Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet — For five years, researchers have toiled over an obscure bit of fundamental internet infrastructure …
The Return Of The Hot IPO: FireEye and Rocket Fuel Shares Explode
The initial public offerings of FireEye and Rocket Fuel exploded on Friday as investors seemingly transported back to 1999 and furiously bid up the shares of of the two companies. — Shares of FireEy...
Facebook Engineering and Products VP Greg Badros to Leave Company
Greg Badros, Facebook's vice president of engineering and products, plans to soon leave the company, AllThingsD has learned. — Facebook confirmed Badros's departure in a brief statement: “Greg was a...
The future of ‘demo days’ in an era of general solicitiation
Startup “demo days” have been flouting the law for years. But now they're going to need a new strategy. — FORTUNE — Beginning on Monday, private companies will be legally permitted to “generally so...
Skype cuts future support for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft is letting the world of Windows Phone 7 (not to be confused with Windows Phone 8) know today that it's time to move on. With Windows Phone 8 being released to smartphones for just under a y...
Vevo Will Block YouTube's Offline-Video Viewing Feature
Music video service Vevo, which is one of YouTube's top content suppliers, will not be allowing users to watch its videos through YouTube's mobile apps if they're not connected to the Internet. — A ...
Microsoft's Surface 2 launch: What to expect
Summary: Microsoft is readying its next-generation Surface tablets and peripherals for launch on September 23. Here's what we know (and think we know) on specs, pricing and availability. — On Monda...
Verizon FiOS Expands Mobile TV Support To Android & iPhone, Now Lets You Watch Live TV Outside The Home
For the first time ever, customers of Verizon's FiOS TV service are being allowed to watch live television on their mobile devices when they're out of their homes, and disconnected from their home's W...
Apple Suppliers to Boost Gold iPhone Production
In Hong Kong, it's all about the Gold iPhone 5S. — Apple Inc. has asked its suppliers to increase production of the gold-colored iPhone 5S by an additional one-third after seeing strong demand, peop...
Microsoft: Phablets are Windows RT's future
Summary: The possible convergence between Windows RT and the Windows Phone OS may be closer than many thought, based on new hints from Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting. — The question arises ag...
Siri on iOS7 found communicating with Apple servers using Multipath TCP, an extended networking protocol
Apple seems to also believe in Multipath TCP — Multipath TCP is a TCP extension that allows a TCP connection to send/receive packets over different interfaces.
British Spy Agency GCHQ Hacked Belgiam Telecoms Firm
A cyber attack on Belgacom raised considerable attention last week. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden and seen by SPIEGEL indicate that Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency was responsible for the att...
Nokia's Last Great Deal: Zero to $7.2 Billion
ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. was desperate. But don't think of it as a victim. — Most of the world's attention will wander from the Finnish company when it completes its sale to Microsoft Corp. in Ma...
Klout launches Cinch, a Quora-like iOS app tied to your personal graph
Social influence measurement service Klout quietly released a new app product this week, called Cinch. The iOS app (update: only available in the US App Store) is very much a mixture of Quora and Kl...