Retina iPad Mini Has 1.3 GHz A7 Processor With 5X The Performance of the Original Mini
Apple's new Retina iPad mini includes the same 64-bit A7 chip used in the iPad Air and the iPhone 5s, which offers significantly better performance than the A5 chip found in the original iPad mini.
Microsoft axes its controversial employee-ranking system
Microsoft is killing off its controversial stack-ranking system today. While it could be viewed as an internal change that won't affect consumers directly, it will have a broad effect on current and ...
CyanogenMod Installer Hits Google Play, Flashing the Custom ROM Now Easier Than Ever
At the time CyanogenMod announced that it had officially become Cyanogen Inc., and received $7 million in funding, the team made public the idea to bring a CyanogenMod Installer right to Google Play.
Twitter Announces Custom Timelines For Hashtags Or Topics On Tweetdeck, Launching API Too
Twitter will let you create custom timelines based on topics, hashtags and more from Tweetdeck, it announced today. Twitter is also providing an API to allow developers to build this functionality in...
Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum
With permission from Apple, The Computer History Museum and the Digibarn Computer Museum announced today it is publishing the original DOS source code for Apple's 1978 Apple II. The Apple II was the ...
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore takes over Internet Explorer app development
Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch revealed earlier this week that he is switching roles to a new team inside the software giant. Hachamovitch has essentially been the Internet Explorer man at Microsoft f...
Justin Bieber-Backed “Shots Of Me” Launches Selfie Sharing App
Sunsets? Landscapes? Latte art? Look back at your old photos and you'll notice they're boring unless there's a human face in them. Now think about teens on social media. Immaturity fuels bullying...
Want Google Glass? Sign Up At Google's Glass Web Site To Be Added To The List
Are you itching to get Google Glass? Google has quietly launched a new form at google.com/glass/start/how-to-get- one to allow US resident to be notified when Google Glass invites open up.
Steve Jobs Inducted Into Bay Area Business Hall of Fame, Eddy Cue Gives Heartfelt Acceptance Speech
Steve Jobs was posthumously inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame last Thursday, and Apple SVP Eddy Cue tweeted a link to the video, and was at the ceremony to accept the award …
Maxta introduces software-based storage system, announces $10M Andreessen Horowitz investment
Andreessen Horowitz Backs Maxta, Whose Software is Eating the Storage Box — Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen told The Wall Street Journal more than two years ago that software …
BlackBerry Z30 hits Verizon on November 14th for $200 on-contract
We knew the BlackBerry Z30 was headed to Verizon as a US-exclusive, but now we actually have a date for it: November 14th. Starting this Thursday, BlackBerry's 5-inch flagship will be made available ...
Google announces Android 4.4 KitKat rollout for Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 (Wi-Fi) has begun
Google announced Android 4.4 KitKat has begun to rollout to Wi-Fi versions of the Nexus 7 (2012 and 2013) and Nexus 10, following the October unveil of the new OS. Users can open software update and ...
SmartThings Raises $12.5 Million From Greylock And Highland To Power The Internet Of Things
Internet-of-Things startup SmartThings has spent the last year or so building a platform that people can use to connect to an increasingly wide range of devices in their homes.
After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back
The four-story brownstone at 141 East 37th Street in Manhattan has no remarkable features: a plain building on a quiet tree-lined street in the shadow of the Empire State Building. In the summer of 1...
Hulu Wants to Be Offered With Pay-TV Bundles
Online Video Outlet Could Be Centralized Location for Full Seasons of Shows … Online video outlet Hulu LLC is in early discussions with several pay-TV providers about potential partnerships, said peop...
Rockefeller to Introduce Bill to Give Online Video Parity With Cable and Satellite Providers
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, is introducing legislation to bolster the online video market, what he says is an effort to prevent cable …
Apple Heads to Trial With Inventor Over Smartphone Patent
Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, faces a trial over claims by a California inventor that a patent he holds covers key features of the iPhone. — Apple maintains the Ne...
Google launches Portable Native Client, lets developers compile their code to run on any hardware and website
Google today launched Portable Native Client (PNaCl, pronounced pinnacle) as part of its push to bring native code to more and more platforms. The tool lets developers compile …
Microsoft Updates Surface Firmware, Patches IE Zero-Day Exploit Among 19 Total Flaws
We don't cover Patch Tuesday much here at TechCrunch because the majority of you know how to leave Windows Update on and suck down the new software each month direct from the source.
In Europe, Thousands of Requests for Facebook Data
BRUSSELS — Online surveillance by the United States was the main subject of a hearing on Monday evening organized by the European Parliament's civil liberties committee. But one of the more noteworth...
iPad mini with Retina display on sale now starting at $399
Three weeks after its announcement, the iPad mini with Retina display is now available for purchase in the online Apple Store. The release follows that of the larger iPad Air earlier in the month; bo...
Google Glass Will Expand Its Features Into Music
To sell Glass, its augmented-reality form of eyewear, Google has already tried to make it a fashion accessory and a must-have video device for any parent or sky diver. Now it is also presenting this ...
Don't Get Too Excited About GlobalFoundries and Apple — At Least, Not Just Yet
At Least, Not Just Yet — Don't get too excited about an intriguing story from the Albany Times Union saying that chip-manufacturing company GlobalFoundries may soon start turning out chips for Apple'...
Microsoft's Windows Store Averaged 1.7M Daily Downloads In October, Up Nearly 40% From June
According to information Microsoft provides to developers, the Windows Store marketplace for applications on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 racked up roughly 1.7 million daily downloads, both free and paid...
Backblaze stores 75 petabytes on 25,000 drives, and most are still spinning
Cloud backup provider is fast becoming one of my favorite companies in IT, if only because it shares so much information about its operations. On Tuesday, the company — famous for its open source sto...
Vine for Windows Phone arrives with Live Tile and camera integration
Twitter promised that it would launch an official Vine Windows Phone client, and after a brief demonstration at Nokia World it's finally arriving today. It looks largely the same as the existing iOS ...
T-Mobile US could raise almost $2 billion for spectrum purchases
(Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc announced on Monday a stock offering that could bring it almost $2 billion for spectrum purchases. — T-Mobile, the No. 4 U.S. mobile service provider, said it would sell ...
Target emulates Amazon online, continues to struggle with e-commerce despite heavy investments
Target Fills Its Cart With Some of Amazon's Tricks — MINNEAPOLIS— Target Corp. has come up with an answer to Amazon.com Inc. Copy it. — The discount chain's latest online offerings …
With 120M Users, Google Drive Gets Tighter Integration With Gmail
Eighteen months after it first debuted, Google Drive has 120 million active users. Today, it is launching additional features that bring it closer to the heart of Gmail, Google's first and most-used ...
Tech Startups See Opportunity in New Healthcare Law
Software Firms to Court Newly Insured, Offering Online Tools — In the coming months, the Affordable Care Act will produce millions of newly insured Americans, many of whom will be making decisions a...
AMD Announces New Tools, Development Capabilities at APU13, Confirms Kaveri Has 512 GPU Cores and Can Run BF4
At APU13 today, AMD announced a full suite of new products and development tools as part of its push to improve HSA development. One of the most significant announcements to come …
Netflix is now available on TiVo set-top boxes for Virgin Media subscribers in the UK
Virgin Media subscribers in the UK can now access the on-demand movie and TV streaming service Netflix from their TiVo set-top box, following a successful trial that kicked off a few months ago.
Jessica Alba's Subscription Ecommerce Startup, The Honest Company, Closes $25M Round, Led By IVP
Jessica Alba's clean-living startup, The Honest Company - a subscription ecommerce service selling eco-friendly, non-toxic family-oriented products such as diapers, skin care and cleaning products …
The birth of Xbox Live
Part sci-fi, part nostalgia, this box would unite people from around the world and provide a platform for entertainment that would drive the future. In young computer scientist J Allard's dream, this...
Apple's Long-Rumored TV Ambitions on Hold Again?
According to sources in the TV supply chain, it appears that Apple's long-rumored TV plans, which were far from concrete anyway, have been put on hold again, possibly to be replaced by a rollout of we...