Android for all and the new Nexus 5
Just in time for Halloween, we have two new treats for Android fans. First, we're excited to unwrap our latest platform release, KitKat, which delivers a smarter, more immersive Android experience to...
Samsung Tops Apple in Latest J.D. Power Tablet Customer Satisfaction Survey
Apple has been ranked second, edged out slightly by Samsung in J.D. Power's latest U.S. tablet satisfaction study. Samsung scored 835 on a 1,000 point scale, while Apple was just behind at 833.
Angry Over U.S. Surveillance, Tech Giants Bolster Defenses
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has spent months and millions of dollars encrypting email, search queries and other information flowing among its data centers worldwide. Facebook's chief executive said at a c...
Google, Red Hat, Oracle contributing dozens of engineers, designers to fix HealthCare.gov
Google, Oracle Workers Enlisted for Obamacare ‘Tech Surge’ — Google, Red Hat, Oracle and other companies are contributing dozens of computer engineers and programmers to help the Obama administratio...
Comcast is donating heavily to defeat the mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle
One of Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn's big policy initiatives has been expanding the quality and quantity of high-speed Internet access throughout the city. A public-private partnership plans …
Apple testing Mail update for OS X Mavericks to fix Gmail, stability, and smart mailbox issues
Since the launch of OS X Mavericks last week, many users have been reporting widespread, various, consistent issues within Apple's bundled Mail application. — Many of the issues …
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps
Three years ago, security consultant Dragos Ruiu was in his lab when he noticed something highly unusual: his MacBook Air, on which he had just installed a fresh copy of OS X, spontaneously updated th...
Launch of iPad in early 2010 seen to coincide with quantum leap in visits to Apple stores
The Quantum Leap in Retail — In fiscal 2013 there were 395 million visits to Apple retail stores. In 2012 there were 372 million. — The difference is approximately the population of Australia.
Apple's Touch ID: Each sensor is tied to the device's A7 chip
Touch ID takes hardware security to new levels - Here's how, why, and what it means! — We already know Touch ID secures your digital fingerprint by storing it in a secure enclave on the Apple A7, on...
AT&T Is Said to Explore Vodafone Takeover as Soon as Next Year
AT&T Inc. executives are laying the groundwork internally for a potential takeover of Vodafone Group Plc next year, mapping out a strategy for a complex deal with Europe's largest mobile carrier, peop...
Coast Guard visits mysterious ‘Google barge’
Agency mum on trip and San Francisco vessel's purpose, citing “commercial confidentiality.” —The Coast Guard on Wednesday visited the mysterious “Google barge” floating in San Francisco Bay, but the ...
New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use, All The Way From Take-Off To Landing
For years now, most of us have been quietly not turning off our phones and devices at landing and take off, and merely putting the screens to sleep and stuffing them in seat pockets instead.
After Walt Mossberg and David Pogue: Waiting for the Next Great Technology Critic
For well over a decade, the two most influential voices about consumer technology have been a sixty-six-year-old man who lives just outside of Washington, D.C. and a fifty-year-old man who resides in ...
Why are Internet startups raising so much, so fast?
Snapchat, Pinterest and Nextdoor are all raising money before the ink is even dry on their last VC checks. Why? — FORTUNE — Pinterest last week announced that it had raised $225 million in new fund...
Google DNS Departs Brazil Ahead of New Law
In response to recent NSA spying allegations, Brazil is pressing ahead with a new law to require Internet companies like Google to store data about Brazilian users inside Brazil, where it will be subj...
How the NSA is infiltrating private networks
The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by ov...
Pandora for Android adds Chromecast streaming (update: iPhone too)
When Google's Chromecast streaming device launched, the company mentioned it would stream stream music from Pandora eventually and now that day has arrived. At least on Android, a new version 5 of th...
Top Reviewers On Amazon Get Tons Of Free Stuff
people who wanted a toaster, went online and bought one.
Ex-NSA Contractor Snowden Finds Computer Job in Russia
Fugitive former US security contractor Edward Snowden has found a website maintenance job in Russia, his lawyer said Thursday. — Snowden, who was granted temporary asylum in Russia this summer, will...
Steam rises to 65 million active users, eclipsing Xbox Live
Steam now has more than 65 million active accounts. The figure marks a 30 percent rise in players over the last year. The video game digital download platform also boasts daily peak concurrent users...
Flurry in 400K apps, tracks 1.2B devices a month with a reach greater than Facebook or Google
Meet The Company That Tracks More Phones Than Google Or Facebook — Picture this scenario. A bored woman sits waiting in an airline lounge. She scrolls through her iPhone and taps …
Future Internet aims to sever links with servers
This is a diagram showing how information would be shared on the PURSUIT Internet, compared with the present architecture. Credit: Barney Brown, University of Cambridge. — A revolutionary new archi...
No U.S. Action, So States Move on Privacy Law
State legislatures around the country, facing growing public concern about the collection and trade of personal data, have rushed to propose a series of privacy laws, from limiting how schools can col...
Fantastical 2: The calendar Apple should have built... again
After bringing natural language input to the mobile calendar experience with Fantastical for iPhone last November, Flexibits today released a brand new version of what was already my absolute favorite...
HealthCare.gov deferred final security check, could leak personal data
Ben Simo's analysis of data sent by HealthCare.gov to analytics providers shows information that could be used to hijack a user's account. — Ben Simo, Is There A Problem Here? — Apparently, Health...