Sony's PlayStation 4 Costs $381 to Build — Only $18 Under Retail Price — In Teardown
Only $18 Under Retail Price — In Teardown — When PlayStation 3 was first released by electronics giant Sony in 2006, it was sold at a loss with the hope of making money back on individual games. — ...
Carriers Reject a ‘Kill Switch’ for Preventing Cellphone Theft
Lawmakers in San Francisco and New York are pushing cellphone makers to adopt a so-called kill switch that would allow users to deactivate their phone remotely, discouraging criminals from stealing ph...
In final shareholder speech, Ballmer defends Bing and Xbox as key parts of Microsoft
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just finished speaking at the company's annual shareholder meeting — his final one as the company's leader — and while he didn't directly address calls for the company …
The Great Snapchat Mirage
We don't know a single useful number about the hottest company in tech . Why Snapchat may be much smaller than it sounds. — Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images — Every few months, since late 201...
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time
Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way — A secret court order that authorised a massive trawl by the National Security Agenc...
Snapchat says it's delivering over 400M snaps daily while Facebook sees 350M photo uploads daily
Snapchat surpasses Facebook in photo uploads — Snapchat users are snapping past their Facebook counterparts when it comes to uploading photos. — A Snapchat represenative told CNET …
Twitter backtracks and removes option to let users receive direct messages from any follower
Last month, Twitter quietly rolled out a new feature to give users the choice to receive private messages from any of their followers, but that option has now been removed.
Exclusive: Tim Draper leaving DFJ
Venture capitalist Tim Draper is moving on from the Silicon Valley firm he created 28 years ago. — FORTUNE — Tim Draper is leaving Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm he...
Samsung ships 800,000 Galaxy Gear smartwatches to retailers in two months
Samsung defies critics, sells 800,000 Galaxy Gear smartwatches in two months — Despite very negative reviews from almost everyone that cared to touch one, Samsung has sold 800,000 Galaxy Gear smartw...
Obama's Secret Attempt to Ban Cellphone Unlocking, While Claiming to Support It
Last week, WikiLeaks made public a portion of a treaty that the White House has been secretly negotiating with other nations and 600 special interest lobbyists. The draft of the Trans-Pacific Partner...
Nexus Wireless Charger now available from Google Play Store for $49.99
Looking to accessorize that shiny new Nexus 5? Google is happy to oblige. The company just added its official Nexus Wireless Charger to the virtual shelves of the Google Play Store.
LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers
Earlier this month I discovered that my new LG Smart TV was displaying ads on the Smart landing screen. — After some investigation, I found a rather creepy corporate video advertising their data col...
Music Streaming Startup Rdio Lays Off Staff To 'Improve Cost Structure And Ensure A Scalable Business"
The music streaming business can be tough, with market leaders like Spotify growing like weeds but still loss-making. Today, some bad news from competitor Rdio, the music streaming service startup …
FiftyThree, Maker Of Creativity App Paper, Gets Into Hardware With Launch Of Its ‘Pencil’ Stylus
FiftyThree, the company behind the wildly popular iPad creativity app Paper, is making its first foray into hardware with the launch of a new stylus it's creatively named “Pencil.”
Changes afoot at DFJ: Tim Draper won't be partner in next fund but denies he's leaving
Venture firm DFJ denies report that co-founders Tim Draper and John Fisher are on the way out — Venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson is denying a report by Fortune Magazine that co-founders ...
Hightail, The File-Sharing Service Formerly Called YouSendIt, Lands $34 Million In New Funding
Hightail, the file-sharing service formerly known as YouSendIt, is announcing today that it has raised $34 million in new funding. The round, which serves as Hightail's Series E, was led by hard driv...
Google releases ‘sneak peek’ of Glass app development kit
Back at SXSW, Google announced the Glass Mirror API — the first step in allowing developers to build apps, or “Glassware” for its wearable computing device. Now, developers will have a whole new set ...
Xbox One SmartGlass lets you snap apps from your phone or tablet
Microsoft has started rolling out an Xbox One version of its SmartGlass app for Windows Phone. While many of the features, including remote control and SmartGlass companions, are the same as the sepa...
F.C.C. Chairman Calls for Transforming the Technology Used by Phone Systems
WASHINGTON — Americans could soon be one step closer to getting that videophone they were promised in the 1960s. — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that the agen...
Twitter for Android and iOS get search filters, toggle between top and all tweets, trends and events timeline
Twitter today updated its apps for Android and iOS with a slew of new features, focusing in particular on search and discovery. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play and Appl...
Wikipedia wants PR firm to stop paid editing services, hints at lawsuit
For months, Wikipedia has been battling a company called “Wiki-PR,” which purportedly sells paid editing services on the well-known online encyclopedia. In October 2013, Wikipedia announced it blocke...
Mini tablet display comparison: 7" Kindle Fire HDX and Nexus 7 impress, iPad mini disappoints
Mini Tablet Display Technology Shoot-Out — Introduction A new generation of Mini 7 to 8 inch Tablets from three of the major manufacturers has just completed with the belated launch of the Apple iPa...
Uber adds PayPal payment option to drive user adoption
Uber users can now pay for on-demand car service with PayPal, kicking off a partnership that lends PayPal some mobile cred while potentially driving new users to Uber's services. — Uber is releasing...
One of the first official iOS controllers sets a low bar for the competition
iOS 7 brought with it official support for gamepads on Apple devices, but one of the first on the market doesn't set a high standard. — One of the more subtle features of iOS 7 was the addition of o...
LinkedIn's New Showcase Pages Allow Companies To Highlight Specific Products And Projects
LinkedIn is announcing a new feature called a Showcase Page that will allow businesses on the professional networking site to target the fans of a specific product or brand.
Motorola releases Android 4.4 KitKat update for Verizon Moto X
Motorola announced today that the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Verizon version of the Moto X would begin its rollout. This deploy comes a mere three weeks since KitKat was officially launched wi...
Google Wallet Creators Raise $7M From Eric Schmidt, Khosla To Bring Personalization And Analytics To In-Store Commerce
While Amazon has been at the forefront of providing a personalized experience in online commerce, in-store retailers are still behind in using data in compelling ways …
FreedomPop expanding free wireless plan to all Sprint smartphones, iPhones included
FreedomPop, the wireless service provider offering free and cheap no-contract plans on Sprint's network, today announced it's now allowing customers to bring their old Sprint phones to activate on its...
Kindle Paperwhite gets Goodreads integration and kid-friendly reading goals
Not to be outdone by yesterday's software update for the Kindle Fire tablets, Amazon on Tuesday announced an available upgrade for the Kindle Paperwhite on Tuesday. The free software enhancements inc...
Flickr can now turn your pictures into keepsakes with one-click photo books
Anyone who wants to print out their photographs has no shortage of options, from spending a few cents at the corner drugstore to building a glossy book using Apple's iPhoto software.
BlackBerry's Porsche-designed Z10 is a phone that even it can't afford
If your company produced a device that, while technically accomplished, managed to lose you $1 billion a few months later, you'd probably try and pretend that it never existed. That's not the approac...
Tencent to launch international version of free 10TB storage service. New photo-sharing app coming soon to US
Tencent, China's largest Internet company, will release an international version of its 10TB cloud storage product next year, and within the coming weeks it'll launch …
Apple makes last pitch for why it deserves $380M from Samsung
Outside U.S District Court in San Jose, Calif., the scene of the Apple v. Samsung retrial. — (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple on Tuesday made its last pitch to a jury before th...
Nokia shareholders approve Microsoft deal
Nokia shareholders have approved a deal allowing Microsoft to purchase the Finnish smartphone maker's Devices and Services unit. 99.7 percent of shareholders who participated in the vote agreed with ...
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time
Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way — A secret court order that authorised a massive trawl by the National Security Agenc...
Dropbox's revenue in 2012 was $116M and $46M in 2011
Dropbox Seeks Funding Round at $8 Billion Valuation … Online-storage service Dropbox Inc. is raising a funding round that could value it at more than $8 billion, according to people familiar with the ...
Live gameplay streaming on Xbox One delayed until 2014
Just days ahead of the Xbox One's Friday North American launch, Microsoft has announced that the ability to stream live Xbox One gameplay through gaming-focused site Twitch.tv will not be available un...
Niklas Zennstrom's Atomico Raises $476M For Growth Stage Investments, Mainly Outside Silicon Valley
Atomico, the VC firm co-founded and led by Niklas Zennstrom of Skype fame, has just announced its third and biggest fund, $475 million, which the firm says it will use mainly for later-stage rounds in...
Newegg hurtles toward Texas showdown with famed “patent troll”
MARSHALL, TX—Who is Michael Jones, and what did he invent? — After five years of legal battles over Jones' patent involving hundreds of lawsuits and tens of millions of dollars in payments, that que...
Warner Bros. Admits To Issuing Bogus Takedowns; Gloats To Court How There's Nothing Anyone Can Do About That
One of the bizarre side notes to Hollywood's big lawsuit against the cyberlocker Hotfile was a countersuit against Warner Bros. by Hotfile, for using the easy takedown tool …