Google Hangouts for iOS can call US & Canada for free, receive Google Voice calls
The Google Hangouts app for iOS is getting a major update this evening that gives it all new calling features on Apple's mobile hardware. Users can call phone numbers directly from the app itself …
Microsoft confirms it is working on a Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone
Microsoft yesterday quietly launched Microsoft Remote Desktop for Android and iOS, for the first time bringing the Windows desktop to phones and tablets. One of the most surprising parts of the annou...
Apple: No, We Can't Read Your iMessages (And We Don't Want to, Either)
Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal earlier this year, Apple said that the end-to-end encryption protecting its iMessage instant-messenger service is so ...
40% Of YouTube Traffic Now Mobile, Up From 25% In 2012, 6% In 2011
It's hard to get people to concentrate long on anything on their phones and tablets, yet YouTube seems to be the exception. The video service is quickly going mobile, with small screens making up 40%...
Jeff Bezos's League of Shadows
Amazon can be a uniquely challenging place to work, with its question-mark emergencies and the occasionally volcanic outburst from the visionary chief executive. It's a place where promotions are har...
Black Market Reloaded, Silk Road's main competitor, shuts down due to security breach
Silk Road's main competitor shuts down indefinitely — Black Market Reloaded, the digital black market that was the largest competitor to the recently-busted Silk Road, just announced it's closing an...
Aereo comes to Detroit on October 28. Can it really hit 22 cities by the end of 2013?
Aereo is coming to Detroit and surrounding counties on October 28, the company announced Friday. — Detroit is the thirteenth city where Aereo has announced plans to launch this year.
NYSE to Test Trading System in Preparation for Twitter IPO
Notice to traders announces dry run to be held on Oct. 26, after technical failures marred Facebook's IPO. — The New York Stock Exchange will allow trading firms to test their systems in preparation...
Programmers at Juniper — not Google or Facebook — rake in the most dough
not Google or Facebook — rake in the most dough — Juniper's average base salary for coders is about $160,000 — What a lucrative profession coding can be — the best paid software engineers have an a...