Apple Is Said to Cut iPhone 5C Orders
Move Raises Concerns About Demand, Pricing Strategy for Low-Cost Device — A customer looks at an Apple iPhone 5c at a store in Palo Alto, Calif., on Sept. 20. Bloomberg News — HONG KONG— Apple In...
[APK Teardown] Latest Google Glass Firmware Gives A Tantalizing Glimpse At A Ton Of Future Features
Last weekend, I finally got my own Google Glass unit. Since then I've been trying to adapt to using it and all its features, but as always there are a few things no Explorer can do just yet.
Cupertino council clears huge Apple ‘spaceship’ campus for liftoff
CUPERTINO — Apple's (AAPL) proposed new spaceship-shaped headquarters got a super-charged blast-off Tuesday night when the Cupertino City Council voted unanimously to approve the 2.8-million-square-fo...
iPhone 5s accelerometer issues may be linked to change in supplier
Here's Why the iPhone 5S Accelerometer Is So Screwed Up — A few weeks ago we confirmed reports that the iPhone 5S motion sensors were embarrassingly off. Some enterprising devs have investigated th...
Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes
Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr, has appeared on television twice. Both times, she wore sunglasses to prevent viewers from getting a full picture of what she looks...
My Next Adventure in Journalism
As many of you know, I've had an interest in journalism for some time now. I've been working on Civil Beat for three years and through my philanthropic work at Omidyar Network and Democracy Fund, we'...
Aviate: an always-changing, intelligent home screen for Android
What if Google Now was made of the icons on your home screen? — “We want to connect people to personalized information at the moment it's useful,” reads the mission statement of Aviate, a replacemen...
How to Design — And Defend Against — The Perfect Security Backdoor
And Defend Against — The Perfect Security Backdoor — We already know the NSA wants to eavesdrop on the internet. It has secret agreements with telcos to get direct access to bulk internet traffic. ...
HP Chromebook 11 Review
We're in the midst of a netbook renaissance. Armed with lighter weight OSes, faster hardware and a better appreciation for what matters in a consumer device, OEMs are giving the concept another try. ...
News Flash: Oracle Still Hates Open Source Software
It's no wonder that Google, Red Hat and others have been abandoning Oracle's most visible open-source project, MySQL. After all, Oracle has a highly conflicted relationship with open source. Nowhere...
Kindle Fire HDX 7" Teardown
Take a look, it's in a book—an eBook that is—the Teardown Rainbow! We're moving on over to the next tablet in Amazon's new Kindle line-up; get ready for some mad knowledge. Hankering for more tasty ...
Snack maker Mondelez readying ‘smart shelves’ to track and influence shopper behavior
A snack maker plans to introduce “smart” grocery store shelves to target shoppers with customized ads intended to spur impulse purchases. — Mondelez International Inc. will set up “smart shelves” …
Microsoft gives Office to students whose teachers buy it
For years, Microsoft, Apple, and others have offered educational discounts to students. Now, Microsoft has gone significantly further, providing a free copy of Office to students whose schools licens...