“Hatching Twitter” excerpts depict a detached Jack Dorsey who later attempted to recast Twitter's history
All Is Fair in Love and Twitter — Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides …
Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal
Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years. Now it has its biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-wat...
T-Mobile to Make It Cheaper to Make Calls While Abroad
Cellphone plans are a little like languages: they don't always translate well in foreign countries. — Often, travelers have to pay an extra $100 to their provider to get any cell service abroad. Or...
Gartner: PC shipments slip 8.6% to 80.3m units in Q3 2013, the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008
The PC market continues to fall spectacularly, seeing the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments as well as the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008.
T-Mobile International Data vs. the Competition: Rates Compared
Data Cost — Voice Calling Cost — AT&T — $30 per 120MB / $120 per 800MB (Global Add-on Package) — $30 / month for $2.00 per minute (Rest of World Plan) — Sprint — $40 per 40MB / $80 per 85M...
Windows Phone 8.1: 7-10 inch screens, no hardware back button, 77% API unity with Windows RT
Windows Phone 8.1 Rumors Emerge — Yes, we'll get a third Windows Phone 8 update first. Still.... While Windows Phone 8 GDR3 is right around the corner—and, yes, I'll be writing …
iPad Mini and iPad 4 top TouchMarks' touchscreen test ranking for most responsive tablets
TouchMarks II: Touchscreen Latencies in Flagship Tablets — In our last TouchMarks report, we looked at the touchscreen latencies of the flagship smartphones from different manufacturers.
Facebook prepares major updates to iPhone apps as top engineer returns to Apple
Screenshots of upcoming Facebook Graph Search for iPhone update — Facebook is preparing a pair of major updates for its most popular iPhone applications, according to a source familiar with the apps...
Archos GamePad 2 tablet gets official, ships to the US in Q4 for $200
That was fast — just days after a retailer's leak, Archos has announced the GamePad 2. As hinted earlier, the second-generation gaming tablet is a big improvement over the original.
Rogers cellphone service down, Text still working for some
A wireless outage had Rogers customers across Canada fuming Wednesday. The outage began in Quebec and Ontario, but later in the evening the company acknowledged the problem was national. According t...
Flickr iOS 7 app now automatically uploads photos to your 1TB of free storage
Yahoo is updating its iOS 7 Flickr application today to let iPhone users automatically upload photos to the service. The latest version will save photos from an iPhone camera roll straight to Flickr ...
HP: We've Been a Little Late to the Game, Admits Whitman; MSFT, INTC ‘Outright Competitors’
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman took to the podium this morning to address analysts at the annual financial meeting. — HP shares surged 6%, or $1.32, at $22.05, after Whitman remarked that rev...
New Google Maps Regains Support For Multi-Destination Trips, Now Integrates Your Flights And Upcoming Events
The big, still-in-Beta Google Maps overhaul brought a bunch of new shiny stuff, from its new fullscreen interface to drastically improved public transportation integration.
Here's What a Pinterest Ad Looks Like
Pinterest today started its preannounced test of “promoted pins,” a.k.a. the first-ever revenue-generating product for the company valued at $2.5 billion. — Well, not so fast on the revenue front. ...
Foursquare gives out unsolicited tips on iPhone
A new feature lets some members go about their lives, phone in pocket, and get alerts when the service finds something interesting for them to eat, see, or do nearby. — Foursquare is releasing a new...
GE teams up with AT&T and Intel to conquer the industrial internet. Here's its plan.
Two years ago GE made some big bets on the internet of things — what it calls the industrial internet. It opened an office in San Ramone, Calif. and started articulating a vision of connected sensors...
NSA uses FOXACID system to select and serve exploits to predetermined targets
The NSA's New Risk Analysis — As I recently reported in the Guardian, the NSA has secret servers on the Internet that hack into other computers, codename FOXACID. These servers provide an excellent...
Google brings Mobile Backend Starter, its one-click deployable cloud backend for Android, to iOS
Google today launched Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, simplifying server-side development for app developers on Apple's mobile platform. Mobile Backend Starter is a Google App Engine application …
Apparently a lot of that TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) talent left BlackBerry Sweden to start a new company called TOPP...
Synaptics moves into fingerprint ID with $255M purchase of startup Validity
Synaptics has entered the fast-growing fingerprint identification market with the acquisition of Validity, a maker of sensors used in biometric identification. Synaptics will pay $255 million in cash...
Rogers Agrees to Carry BlackBerry's Newest Flagship Phone
Looks like Rogers Communications will sell the BlackBerry Z30 after all. — A week after announcing its decision to forgo BlackBerry's latest flagship phone, the Canadian wireless carrier has reverse...
Microsoft Board Said to Work on Hiring New CEO This Year
Microsoft Corp.'s board is working toward having the successor to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer in place by the end of this year and is winnowing a list of candidates, said people with knowled...