Seven Key Designers of BlackBerry 10 Left the Company in January
The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) has decamped BlackBerry. — Earlier this year, seven members of the Swedish design house acquired by the smartphone maker to help develop BlackBerry 10, left it to found a...
Apple Reportedly Cutting iPhone 5c Production as Chinese Gray Market Prices Drop
Apple is reportedly cutting iPhone 5c production in half from 300,000 units to 150,000 units per day, according to claims by C Technology [Google Translate], which leaked a number of photos of the iPh...
Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android
Google TV is dead, long live Android TV: Three years after launching the first generation of Google TV devices, Google is now looking to rid itself of the brand and realign its smart TV platform effor...
Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name, Highlighting Lack Of Universal Privacy Controls
“Who can look up your Timeline by name?” Anyone you haven't blocked. Facebook is removing this privacy setting, notifying those who had hidden themselves that they'll be searchable.
Vivian Schiller Is a Lock as Twitter's Head of News
Vivian Schiller, NBC News' SVP and chief digital officer, is being tapped for Twitter's head of news position, according to sources familiar with the matter. AllThingsD reported last week that she wa...
Google begins offering financial rewards for proactive security patches made to select open-source projects
Google today started to provide financial incentives for proactive improvements to open-source software (OSS) that go beyond merely fixing a known security bug.
Best Buy trade-in offer to take any working smartphone for at least $100 toward iPhone 5s, 5c
Electronics retailer Best Buy appears on the verge of kicking off another trade-in program aimed at getting iPhone 5s and 5c customers through its doors, this time offering a minimum of $100 toward …
Your Playstation 4 may be built by Chinese students in the worst internship ever
Updated with comment and detail from Foxconn. — Foxconn believes that students are the future, at least judging by its deal with China's Xi'an Institute of Technology to expose more than 1,000 …
Judge: Google's Tracking Not Harmful
It just got even tougher to stop a company from tracking your movements online. — A federal judge in Delaware Wednesday dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought against Google and two other tech com...
Hulu Said Close to Naming Fox's Mike Hopkins CEO of Web Service
Hulu LLC, the streaming service controlled by Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox Inc., is close to naming Fox executive Mike Hopkins as its new chief executive officer, two people with knowledge of ...
Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV
Thirty-four percent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says. — Brian Brett, the Times' executive director of customer ...
Apple legend Bill Atkinson's new mission: Save the postcard
The creator of the Macintosh's QuickDraw graphics system, MacPaint, and HyperCard wants to save the postcard from extinction. — It's 5:00 a.m., and Bill Atkinson makes his way downstairs to begin hi...
Broadcasters Will Petition Supreme Court to Review Aereo Case (Exclusive)
Justices will have to choose between taking case or letting legal proceedings play out further — Broadcasters plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings that have allowed ...
Apple iWatch is actually a home automation play, not a smartphone companion (analyst)
Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch launched a couple of weeks ago as a fat, ugly, and expensive smartphone accessory that our own Devindra Hardawar called “relentlessly inessentia...
Outlook.com for Android gets server-side search, option to download all mail, aliases, and vacation replies
Microsoft today updated its Outlook.com app for Android with four new features, including server-side search and vacation replies. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.
Zuckerberg buys four houses near his Palo Alto home
PALO ALTO — Living the fantasy of every homeowner who's faced the prospect of a nuisance project next door, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has bought four homes adjacent to his own 5-bedroom crash pad in ...
Twitter Launches An Android Tablet Optimized App For The First Time - On One Tablet
In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has announced the first tablet-optimized version for the platform. It's been 3 years since the iPad hit and Android tab...
Valve Confirms Official AMD-Powered Steam Machines For 2014
In a statement to Forbes, a Valve representative has confirmed that AMD graphics hardware will be included in commercially available Steam Machines next year. The more interesting story, however, is ...
Profile of Katie Stanton, tech veteran helping Twitter expand in crucial international markets
Katie Stanton: Twitter's ambassador — In 2010, two weeks after Katie Jacobs Stanton joined Hillary Clinton's innovation team at the U.S. State Department, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti.
Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages
I've been thinking about this piece by Ben Thompson, “What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong in His Theory of Low-End Disruption”, since he published it two weeks ago. … In a sense, there are two rational...
A first look inside Google's futuristic quantum lab
In May, Google launched the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with hardware from the Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave and technical expertise from NASA. It was an ambitious open research p...
Photo-Sharing Service Familiar Gets Acquired
The consumerization of enterprise services is one of the more persistent trends in the world of IT today, and today it's gaining yet more ground by way of an acquisition …
As More Startups Move To San Francisco, Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In The City
Y Combinator has been a mainstay of Silicon Valley, with an office not far from the Mountain View Caltrain station. * Over the years, however, the seed-stage venture firm has seen more of its compani...
BlackBerry Is Said to Warm to Idea of a Breakup
BlackBerry (BBRY) Ltd. is more open to a breakup of the company amid concerns that Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (FFH) may be unable to line up funding or partners for a $4.7 billion buyout, a perso...
The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store
Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider. It will rake in about $75 billion this year. For his book, Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone sp...
Twitter Appears To Be Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment
Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot …
Fitbit Force brings smartwatch features to a fitness tracker
Fitbit is making its latest device to quantify your activity, the wrist-worn Force fitness tracker, official today. The Force is an evolution of the Flex, Fitbit's other wrist-worn tracker, and offer...
Acer's $249 C720 Chromebook launched: Thinner, longer lasting, and Haswell
The Chromebook C720. — Acer — Chrome OS aficionados have long pined for a Haswell processor to drive one of their Chromebooks, imbuing the line with the longevity they've been missing out on. Tha...
Bye, Bye Cookie: Microsoft Plots Its Own Tracking Technology to Span Desktop, Mobile, Xbox
Redmond Joins Google, Apple, Amazon and Others In Plotting the Cookie's Demise — Microsoft is set to become the latest tech giant to develop its own tracking technology to replace the ubiquitous …
Amazon Makes A Play For Startups With Its AWS Activate Service Bundle And Support Network
Amazon's AWS cloud services division has become one of the go-to places for startups looking for hosting and other services for their apps and other business. Today, Amazon redoubled its efforts …
On Encrypted Video and the Open Web
There has been a lot of response to the announcement that W3C considers content protection for video as in-scope for discussion in the HTML Working Group. In this post I can touch on some of the argu...
Dropcam Pro launched with better optics, dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth for $199 (hands-on)
Before 2012, Dropcam was a software outlet famous for integrating its camera tech into other people's hardware. However, it knew that in order to grow, the company needed to get into the hardware bus...
Sony shrinks flagship Z1 smartphone to a more manageable size
NTT Docomo has announced the Xperia Z1F, a new Sony smartphone based on this year's Xperia Z1. The Z1's standout feature was its 20-megapixel camera with a point-and-shoot-sized sensor, but where tha...
VC deal activity hits highest mark since dot-com boom
It may feel a little frothy out there in startup land. And a new report out from CB Insights shows just what's going on. — Venture capital deal activity continued to climb in the third quarter as a...
Level: A real-time money meter app that wants to be your Fitbit for personal spending
There's no shortage of personal finance-management apps out there, with the likes of Simple serving up real-time data about all your incomings and outgoings, linked directly to your bank accounts.
Aereo is releasing an Android app on October 22nd
Aereo is coming to Android. The streaming broadcast TV service will debut its first app ever just under two weeks from now, on October 22nd, inside of the Google Play store. The service is tradition...