NSA chief pleads for public's help amid push for spying restrictions
Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, called Wednesday on the public to help defend his agency's powers as Congress mulls restrictions aimed at protecting privacy. — “We nee...
T-Mobile US will no longer stock BlackBerry in stores
(Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc, the No. 4 U.S. wireless service provider, plans to stop carrying BlackBerry Ltd smartphones in its stores and instead ship the devices directly, according to an executive ...
LexisNexis and other large data brokers hacked by underground identity theft service SSNDOB
Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service — An identity theft service that sells Social Security numbers, birth records, credit and background reports on millions of Americans …
Sudan loses Internet access — and it looks like the government is behind it
and it looks like the government is behind it — Internet intelligence corporation Renesys confirmed reports Wednesday that Sudan has been cut off from the Internet. Al Arabiya reported earlier Wedne...
Apple wins right to use iPhone name in Brazil
Apple can now share the name in Brazil with IGB Electronica, which wanted to retain exclusive rights. — The iPhone can now legally be known as the iPhone in Brazil following a court ruling. — On T...
Nest Labs To Open Up Its Learning Thermostat To Developers
The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a little smarter (and perhaps the forthcoming Protect). Speaking at CEDIA Expo 2013, Tony Fadell, the company's co-founder and CEO, just detailed an API t...
Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV ‘Touch To Set Up’ Via iOS 7 Devices
Apple is leveraging the Bluetooth LE technology that it has been building into every iPhone since the iPhone 4S to enable automatic setup of an Apple TV 3G. Just touch a device running iOS 7 to a new...
BlackBerry Cancels Call to Discuss Its Results
OTTAWA — The management of the ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry canceled a conference call scheduled for Friday to discuss the company's quarterly financial results. — While BlackBerry said on Wed...
Nokia will announce six new devices at its October 22nd event
There'll be a range of new form factors as well — Nokia's Innovation Reinvented event in Abu Dhabi next month will host the launch of at least six new devices from the Finnish company, including at ...
Valve announces Steam Machines, the Steam Box hardware beta
Valve is building a game console, but not just one. The company wants to create an entirely new class of computers that brings the power of Linux and the distribution might of Steam to the living roo...
Evernote and 3M to announce partnership to help you digitize Post-it notes
The Post-it Note Goes Digital on Evernote — Rather than fight the digital revolution, the time-tested Post-it note is joining it. — 3M Co., which makes about 50 billion of the sticky paper notepad...
Google Shopping Express Launches In San Francisco Peninsula, Debuts New Apps
After previously dogfooding and then beta testing its same-day Amazon Prime and eBay Now competitor Google Shopping Express, Google says that today the service is launching to all those in its initial...
Google tries to fuel innovation outside of Silicon Valley with new Tech Hub network
Google is looking to cultivate innovation in some of the more obscure tech markets in the North America. It announced on Wednesday a program that would expand Google's community ties and outreach …
T-Mobile CFO makes case for U.S. consolidation, Sprint deal
(Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc Chief Financial Officer Braxton Carter said on Wednesday that he expected more consolidation in the U.S. wireless market and made a case for a deal between his company and ...
Microsoft left alone with Windows RT as Dell drops XPS 10 tablet
Microsoft appears to be the only company still selling a Windows RT-based tablet. Dell's XPS 10 is now listed as unavailable, following a price drop for the past few months. While the company won't ...
Microsoft's Surface Mini: Not until spring 2014?
Summary: Microsoft may not get its first Surface Mini tablet out the door until Spring 2014 — which is looking like the same time when its Windows variants may get a refresh, sources say. — There's ...
Apple Launches iOS 7 Tech Talks For Developers In SF, NYC, Tokyo, Shanghai, Berlin And London
Apple has just announced a series of Tech Talks for developers building apps for iOS 7. This is a relatively common occurrence as Apple likes to get evangelists out to talk to developers and help …
Target goes head-to-head with iTunes and Amazon with launch of ‘Ticket’ video service
Target Ticket, the US retailer's video-on-demand offering, has today launched to the public. After months of beta testing, Target Ticket is now live with a catalog of over 30,000 movies and more than...
Egnyte rebrands to bring ‘PRISM proof’ file-sharing to the enterprise
Vineet Jain, the CEO of Egnyte, is prepping the company for a successful exit. — File-sharing startup Egnyte is operating in a crowded market, going against players like Box and Dropbox.
Tech Giants Fear Spread of Patent Wars to Europe
LONDON — The technology industry is expanding its fight against patent trolls to Europe. — In the United States, technology companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft have spent years and hundreds o...
Twitter Adds J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley as Bankers on IPO
Twitter Inc. has tapped two more banks, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley, to help lead its coming initial public offering, said people familiar with the matter. — The banks will join Goldm...
Amazon Announces The Kindle HDX 7- And 8.9-Inch Tablets With High-Res Screens, 2GHz Processors
Amazon has upped the Fire tablet ante with two new HDX models in 7- and 8.9-inch sizes with brand-new, high-resolution screens and running an updated Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor at 2GHz.
Samsung counters iPhone 5S with a golden Galaxy S4
Two weeks after Apple's September 10th reveal of a champagne-colored iPhone, Samsung is launching its own golden phone in the shape of a new Gold Edition Galaxy S4. There are two options, Gold Pink o...
The Myth of Steve Jobs' Constant Breakthroughs
Last Friday, Apple's iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c went on sale. The company sold nine million of them in the first weekend, breaking the five-million-phone record it set last year with the iPhone 5. I so...
Bypassing TouchID was “no challenge at all,” hacker tells Ars
Ars expressed surprise on Monday that a hacker was able to bypass fingerprint protection less than 48 hours after its debut in Apple's newest iPhone, but not everyone felt the same way. The hack, car...
Google Is Going to Pay You Back for Your Unused Google Offers
Google has started sending out emails this week notifying its customers that it will soon start refunding their unused Google Offers. — The refunds signal a shift in how the Google Offers local deal...
How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA
In August 2007, a young programmer in Microsoft's Windows security group stood up to give a five-minute turbo talk at the annual Crypto conference in Santa Barbara. — It was a Tuesday evening, part ...
Roku launches new TV streaming boxes and brings Roku 3 to the UK and Ireland
Roku, makers of the streaming TV, film, music and gaming boxes, has today launched a new family of Roku devices and is bringing its top-of-the-line Roku 3 unit which has been available in the US since...
Senators Demand Answers On NSA Snooping - By The End Of 2014
This week nine members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the inspector general of the Intelligence Community, I. Charles McCullough III, asking him to conduct a full review of U.S. in...
Alibaba Said to Shift Target from Hong Kong to U.S. for I.P.O.
HONG KONG-The Chinese Internet company Alibaba has ended talks with the Hong Kong stock exchange over an initial public offering and is now moving forward with plans to list in New York, a person clos...
Day traders, angels and venture capital: The internet changes everything, including money
London is the grandfather of economic excess and perhaps an appropriate role model for New York and San Francisco, the new Babylons of the post-millennial world. It is hard to escape the presence of ...
Ellison skips OpenWorld keynote to watch America's Cup
CEO cancels his keynote at the last minute to watch a crucial Oracle Team USA race against New Zealand — Larry Ellison had a choice on Tuesday afternoon: watch a crucial race for his America's Cup s...