Amazon Kindle Fire HDX review (7-inch): best tablet for Amazon content, but missing Play Store apps
Amazon Kindle Fire HDX review (7-inch) — This is life in Amazon town — I feel like I'm living inside the Home Shopping Network. — For a week I've been relentlessly buying things …
Quirky brings on former Frog Design executive Doreen Lorenzo as its President
Crowdsourcing invention platform Quirky has had quite a year. After announcing a $68 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz last year and a partnership with GE six months ago, it is now add...
Edward Snowden's E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show
The U.S. government obtained a secret court order demanding that Edward Snowden's e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over its private SSL key, which would have allowed the FBI to wiretap the service's use...
Amazon's Smartphones Detailed: ‘Project Smith’ 3D Flagship Model And A Value Handset With FireOS
Amazon is in the process of developing two smartphones, one inexpensive model and one with a 3D eye-tracking interface, TechCrunch has learned. The details are somewhat sparse …
Patent troll Lodsys chickens out, folds case rather than face Kaspersky Lab
In 2011, Lodsys seemed like it was working hard to earn the title of the nation's most-hated patent troll by sending threat letters to small developers. At the end of the day, it turns out that Lodsy...
Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
The head of Iran's cyber warfare programme has been shot dead, triggering further accusations that outside powers are carrying out targeted assassinations of key figures in the country's security appa...
Google Acquires YC-Backed Flutter, A Gesture Recognition Technology Startup
Google's Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought Flutter, a Y Combinator-backed startup that focuses on gesture recognition ...
Facebook building a $120 million, 394-unit housing community near its offices
The Social Network Is Building a 394-Unit Housing Community Near Its Offices — Facebook Inc.'s sprawling campus in Menlo Park, Calif., is so full of cushy perks that some employees may never want to...
As Comcast faces less competition, only its highest-paying broadband customers get big speed increases
These charts show Comcast acting more and more like a monopolist — In a recent article, I suggested that broadband speeds were stagnating in the United States.