Microsoft Announces Update 3 For Windows Phone 8 Coming This Year With Larger Screens, More Live Tiles
Today Microsoft announced its third update to Windows Phone 8. This is the set of new features and upgrades that will carry the smartphone platform through the holiday sales cycle.
NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to...
iPhone 5s Outselling iPhone 5c Two-to-One
Asked during Apple's last earnings call if he feared the higher end of the smartphone market was nearing saturation, CEO Tim Cook said he did not. “I don't subscribe to the common view that the highe...
Amazon cuts costs by shipping directly from warehouses of P&G and other key suppliers
Soap Opera: Amazon Moves in With P&G — E-Commerce Giant Sets Up Shop Inside Warehouses of Suppliers TUNKHANNOCK, Pa.—Atop a hill at the end of a road called P&G Warehouse Way sits a warehouse stocke...
After Twitter and Square, What is Jack Dorsey's Next Move?
Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06. It carries him nearly from one side of San Francisco to the other—down California Street almost to Mar...
Yahoo Mail switching to HTTPS connections by default in January, four years after GMail
Yahoo to make SSL encryption the default for Webmail users. Finally. — Beginning Jan. 8, Yahoo will enable encryption by default for users logging into its Web-based mail service, the company has t...
HTC One max: an awkwardly large One variant with a poorly implemented fingerprint scanner
HTC One max review: a lot more of the same — The power button is on the side — Homer's two great works, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are technically poems. In the exact same way that an inch-thick ...
The South Korea Report: Device and App Trends in The First Saturated Device Market
In August of this year Flurry Analytics measured 33,527,534 active smartphones and tablets in South Korea. While that was only 2.8% of the entire worldwide connected device installed base Flurry meas...
Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To $200M... And (Finally?)
Big news for a Monday/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): Onavo, the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, has just announced that it has been acquired by Facebook.
Google readying ‘Mobile Meter’ app that offers rewards for tracking mobile usage
Google already knows better than most how we use the internet. Now it wants to dig a little deeper and monitor your app usage as well. Engadget has learned that the company is readying a new mobile ...
LG G Flex curved smartphone revealed in press renders, will launch next month (update: 6-inch display)
LG has admitted that “bendable and unbreakable” smartphone displays are already in production, and we've heard plenty of rumors about a device known as the G Flex which features the new tech.
Lavabit reinstates service briefly so users can download emails, change passwords
Email provider Lavabit shut down in August due to government pressure in the wake the Edward Snowden leaks, but it is apparently re-opening — for a little while. A press release issued by Lavabit ind...
Microsoft Mission Impossible
You're Microsoft's new CEO. How do you like staring at the abyss between two mutually exclusive ways of making money? The old business model, Windows and Office licensing, is going away. The Device...
Netflix Gets TiVo Assist in Push to Join Cable-TV Lineup
Netflix Inc. (NFLX), pressing cable operators to grant equal footing to its Web-based films and television shows on pay-TV systems, is getting an assist from set-top box maker TiVo Inc. (TIVO) — Net...
Apple Reuse and Recycling Programme goes live in UK Apple Stores today
The chance to trade in your old Apple handset when you upgrade in store has arrived in the UK today. You've probably already read our coverage of the Apple Reuse and Recycling Programme coming to App...
Message from BlackBerry: You can still count on us
The headlines for BlackBerry have been a bit of a jumbled mess lately, and for those BlackBerry users that don't dive deeper into the articles, things could seem a bit all over the place right now. —...