iPad Air Geekbench: Over 80% faster than iPad 4, A7 processor 100MHz faster than iPhone 5s
iPad Air Benchmarks — Geekbench 3 results for the new iPad Air are starting to appear on the Geekbench Browser. I've charted the results for all iOS 7 capable iPads below.
Android's Next Targets: Wearables, TVs, Low-End Phones
The launch of Google Inc.'s Android KitKat, the next version of the most widely used operating software for smartphones and tablets, is drawing near. Google executives haven't announced a release dat...
Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon
Intel's efforts to break into the TV business may be coming to a close. — Sources say the chipmaker is close to a deal to hand over control of Intel Media, the unit that has been trying to build a W...
Google's Glass Accessory Store Is Coming Online (Wow. Stuff's Expensive!)
Google is bringing an official accessory store for Google Glass online this evening, based on reports first shared in a private Google forum for Glass Explorers. — The store appears to be part of th...
Exclusive: Intel Opens Fabs To ARM Chips
As the old adage goes, if you can't beat them, join them! Well, that's exactly what Intel finally decided to do relative to its lagging mobile business. — At the ARM developers' conference today, I...
NSA Fallout Hits AT&T's Ambitions In Europe
AT&T Inc. T -0.03% 's ambitions to expand in Europe have run into unexpected hurdles amid the growing outcry across the region over surveillance by the National Security Agency. German and other Euro...
Nintendo sells 300,000 more Wii U consoles, but over two million more 3DS handhelds
Nintendo's just released its financial results for the last three months, and while hardware sales have increased substantially, it still made a loss. Wii U sales have rebounded significantly.
Facebook Admits Some Decrease Of Usage Amongst Young Teens For The First Time
Facebook may be feeling the pinch from teen-focused, mobile-first social networks like Snapchat, as CFO David Ebersman said on today's earnings call that Facebook “did see a decrease in daily users sp...
California Woman Gets the First Ticket for Driving with Google Glass
This is history: the first known case of a Glass Explorer getting a ticket for driving while wearing Google Glass. — Cecilia Abadie told her story on Google+ late Tuesday night, and shared this imag...
Sprint intros first phones to tap its trio of 4G LTE network frequencies
Sprint will have three smartphones on sale November 8 that can support all three of the its 4G LTE frequencies, with a fourth smartphone coming soon. The company is calling its technology Sprint Spar...
Sprint swings to profit of $383M, but loses a net 313,000 customers
Sprint swung to a third-quarter profit its first period under new ownership. — The company, which reports for the first time after the completion of the SoftBank takeover and Clearwire acquisition …
IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal
Earlier this month some pretty surprising news hit the file-sharing scene. After many years battling aggressively with the MPAA, Canadian BitTorrent site isoHunt suddenly agreed to a settlement with ...
OS X 10.9 brings fast but choppy Thunderbolt networking
If you open your network settings in the System Preferences after upgrading to OS X 10.9 “Mavericks”, you'll be informed that a new “Thunderbolt Bridge” network interface was added to the system. So ...
IBM gives up fight to build CIA's $600m secret cloud, hands deal to Amazon
Withdraws injunctive action and scuttles back into shadow — IBM has stumbled away from its legal tussle with Amazon over a strategically important contract to build a $600m cloud system for the CIA.
Mysterious barges in Maine and San Francisco ignite Google rumors
Is Google building floating data centers? Transporting Google Glass outlets or retail stores? Everyone is mum on the subject — Speculation that had been growing about mysterious barges harbored on...
Barnes & Noble's Nook GlowLight is lighter, brighter, whiter, with less Simple Touch for $119
As a ketchup bottle once famously said: Good things take time (we're paraphrasing here, of course). Roughly a year and a half ago, Barnes and Noble made its top-notch Nook Simple Touch even better, w...
As It Denounces U.S. Spying, Europe Delays Privacy Protection at Home
BRUSSELS — Even with Europe in an uproar over intrusive United States surveillance, its leaders are looking for ways to slow down legislation aimed at preventing violations of privacy at home.
Cloud-Based Device Management Startup Soluto Acquired By Device Insurers Asurion For Up To $130M
Looks like another exit for an Israel-based startup - this one straddling the worlds of cloud services and hardware control. Soluto, a service that lets users manage PCs and other connected devices r...