YouTube preparing a $10/month premium on-demand music service, may come this year
YouTube Close to Launching Subscription Music Service (Breaking) — YouTube is preparing a premium on-demand music service — akin to a Spotify, but with video — to launch later this year, according t...
All Of The Ways Apple's New Free Mac OS Hurts Microsoft Windows
Apple announced today that Mavericks, its latest version of Mac OS X, will be free for all Mac users to download. Windows 8.1 is still $119.99. — Apple products are usually seen as expensive if not...
Former Apple CEO Sculley mulls BlackBerry bid
John Sculley, the former Apple Inc. CEO who famously clashed with Steve Jobs, is exploring a bid for beleaguered BlackBerry Ltd. with Canadian partners, sources have told The Globe and Mail. — Mr. S...
LG's curved-screen G Flex smartphone revealed in photos and video
We've seen rendered images of LG's G Flex and its curved OLED display, but the device itself has proven elusive — until now. Argentinian broadcaster Telefe Noticias managed to obtain the phone for an...
Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding — $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation (Confirmed)
$225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation (Confirmed) — According to several sources, Pinterest has completed another enormous funding, this time nabbing $225 million with late-stage investor Fidelity I...
Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights
The US District Court for the State of Idaho ruled that an ICS product developer's computer could be seized without him being notified or even heard from in court primarily because he states on his we...
Amazon's set-top box runs into further delays
Amazon has been been rushing to finalize and release a set-top box in time for the holidays, designed to compete directly with the Apple TV and Roku. However, The Verge has learned that the company r...
LG unveils the Fireweb, its first Firefox OS smartphone (video)
So far, Firefox OS has been limited to ultra-basic smartphones like the ZTE Open. LG is expanding the platform's reach today by releasing its inaugural Mozilla-powered handset, the Fireweb.
Microsoft slashes Surface Pro's price by another $100: 64GB for $699, 128GB for $799, and 256GB for $999
Microsoft has slashed the price of its original Surface Pro by $100. While the tablet has been largely dropped from the broader Surface product line, it's still available on the Microsoft Store …
Exclusive: HTC scales back production lines as cash flow worsens-sources
(Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp has halted at least one of its four main manufacturing lines, accounting for at least a fifth of total capacity, and is outsourcing production as a sale...
Hewlett-Packard Said to Be Seeking to Sell Mobile Patents
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) is seeking buyers for some of its mobile-computing patents, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, as Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman tries to bolster t...
Facebook's Zuckerberg highest-paid CEO at $2.28 billion
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the highest paid CEO of a North American public company last year, with total compensation of $2.28 billion — almost all of it coming from share options e...
Why would anyone buy an iPad 2 now?
For $399, Apple's iPad mini with Retina display is a far better choice — Yesterday, Apple announced two new iPads: the iPad Air, and the iPad mini with Retina display. Both carry Apple's speedy new...
Galaxy Gear compatibility comes to the Samsung Galaxy S 4, S3, Note 2 and more
If you wanted live out your Inspector Gadget fantasies, but lacked the Galaxy Note 3 needed to take full advantage of the possibilities, we've got good news. Samsung's bringing compatibility for its ...
LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
We recently launched LinkedIn Intro — a new product that shows you LinkedIn profiles, right inside the native iPhone mail client. That's right: we have extended Apple's built-in iOS Mail app, a feat ...
SkySQL Raises $20M To Support Open-Source Relational Database MariaDB
SkySQL has raised $20 million to deepen its support for MariaDB, the fast growing open-source relational database and the emerging database of choice for Wikipedia. The round was led by Intel Capital...
Microsoft Bashes Apple's iWork Software, New iPads
Microsoft's corporate vice president of communications, Frank Shaw, today took to the Official Microsoft Blog to denounce both Apple's revamped iWork software and the company's well-received decision ...
Upcoming USB Power Delivery standard brings variable voltage, up to 100W to device charging
Edison's revenge — The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution. It will make power supplies greener and cheaper — From the print edition — FIDDLY cables …
Samsung Apologizes to Chinese Consumers for Handset Flaws
With its massive smartphone sales in China, Samsung Electronics Co. is approaching Apple Inc. in status in China. — Now it's learning the pitfalls of success in the country. — In a broadcast poste...
The candidate from Facebook: Silicon Valley's march on Washington
The tech economy elite are pouring money into Ro Khanna's campaign for Congress. What do they want in return? — It is a Thursday night in mid-May in San Francisco's North Beach and Silicon Valley i...
Yesterday's presentation suggests Apple lacks vision for the iPad sans Jobs, Forstall
Whither Liberal Arts? The Missing iPad Story — Steve Jobs closed the January, 2010 introduction of the iPad with this now famous slide: — Steve Jobs and the intersection of technology and the lib...
US intelligence chief denies reports that the NSA collected 70 million French call records
The NSA has struck back at reports that it recorded millions of French telephone calls and stored metadata from them. In a statement on Tumblr, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper …
Internet Domain Name Expansion Now Underway
Los Angeles, California... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that the first new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) from its New gTLD Program were delegated...
US government releases draft cybersecurity framework
According to NIST, all levels of an organization should be involved in cybersecurity. — (Credit: The National Institute of Standards and Technology) — The National Institute of Standards and Techn...
HP to enter 3D printer market in mid-2014 says CEO Meg Whitman
Faster, cheaper, kit on the way for service providers — Canalys Channels Forum HP CEO Meg Whitman has told the Canalys Channels Forum in Bangkok that the company will enter the 3D printer market in ...
Microsoft enables developers to add speech recognition to Windows 8 apps
Summary: Microsoft is continuing to flesh out its Bing developer platform with a new speech-recognition control, allowing coders to add speech input to their Windows 8 apps. — In July of this year …
Why in-contract price hike controls will likely mean the end of UK handset subsidies
Britain's telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has told the country's fixed-line and mobile carriers that they will no longer be allowed to keep customers tied to their monthly contracts if they raise...