Xbox One Teardown
After eight years, Microsoft has finally released a proper successor to the Xbox 360—the Xbox One. Will this be the One Xbox? Follow us as we journey into the tower of Microsoft's new console—coming...
U.S. To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes
Proposal Would Allow for Calls Above 10,000 Feet — The Federal Communications Commission will propose allowing passengers to use their cellphones on airplanes, people familiar with the matter said. ...
Samsung owes Apple $290M more in damages, jury says
(Credit: CBS) SAN JOSE, Calif. — A jury on Thursday ruled that Samsung must pay Apple $290,456,793 in additional damages for patent infringement, slightly less than the $380 million Apple had requeste...
Video Trailers Debut On The App Store With ‘Clumsy Ninja’
Apple is featuring Clumsy Ninja, an iOS game that was first announced at the iPhone 5 keynote in 2012, with a custom page on the App Store that, alongside a description, features a 1-minute trailer fo...
Nokia Lumia 2520 review: a good Windows tablet, not the best for typing
The Lumia 2520 is Nokia's first Windows tablet — and it may well be its last. By the time Nokia is ready to design a follow-up product, the Finnish firm might officially be a part of Microsoft.
Dropbox updated with new design for iOS 7, AirDrop, and more
As first shown by 9to5Mac, Dropbox has updated its iOS app with an all-new design for iOS 7 and several new feature and improvements. The update brings a streamlined iPad interface, improvements to t...
HBO GO now works with Chromecast
Grab your favorite snack and get cozy on your Iron Throne, because HBO GO has added Chromecast support to their Android, iOS and web app. Now you can easily enjoy “Game of Thrones,” “Boardwalk Empire...
Intel Chairman: “We Seemed to Have Lost Our Way”
Long a beneficiary of the falling cost of computing power, chipmaker Intel acknowledged Thursday that it was beaten at its own game. — Moore's law, the industry term coined by Intel co-founder Gordo...
NYT #IsKindaClueless — its uncritical Lulu piece sidesteps the controversy surrounding the app
its uncritical Lulu piece sidesteps the controversy surrounding the app — NYT #IsKindaClueless — Today Lulu makes its New York Times debut, page E1. — Lulu lets women review guys. Specifically t...
Windows Phone Now Sees 10M Transactions And 500 New Apps Daily, Has Served 3B Total Downloads
Today Instagram and Waze came to the Windows Phone platform, bringing two applications to Microsoft's smartphone venture that it has long lacked. — Microsoft also released a set of numbers …
Acer founder steps in to save company as CEO and president resign
Acer's been on a quest to reinvent itself pretty much since the sunset of the netbook era — which both fuelled the Taiwanese company's rapid growth and left it floundering when consumers moved on to o...
Spotify Raises $250 Million, Valued Above $4 Billion
Swedish music-streaming company Spotify AB has secured nearly $250 million in new financing led by Silicon Valley firm Technology Crossover Ventures, valuing the company somewhere “north” of $4 billio...
iPad Mini Retina is a no-show at carriers
Carriers are still waiting on the iPad Mini Retina. — (Credit: Apple) — Carriers are still waiting on the iPad Mini Retina with 3G/4G capability, as back orders grow. — Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobi...
AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile will stop charging customers for spam texts
Three of the top four US wireless companies — AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile — have agreed to stop billing American customers for the spam texts that millions of people have been tricked into receiving and...
Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
Looks like the llama may not get off so easily after all. AOL yesterday announced that it was shutting down Winamp, media playing software for Windows and Android devices that it picked up through it...
ESPN ScoreCenter App Is a Hit, but It's Getting an Overhaul Anyway: New Name, More Video, More Stuff
ESPN's ScoreCenter app isn't broken — it's one of the most successful mobile offerings from a media company that has done a very good job with mobile. But ESPN is trying to fix it, anyway.
Inkjet Printing Could Be the Key to Next-Generation OLED Displays
Kateeva says its new manufacturing equipment can produce affordable OLED displays, rigid and flexible. — Color-rich, energy-efficient, and flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays could...
Alleged Silk Road Owner Loses Bail Request; Prosecutors Say He Ordered Six Murders
Federal prosecutors in New York dropped a bombshell in their response to a bail request from alleged Silk Road owner Ross Ulbricht. — In a filing to the court today in New York, they say that Ulbric...
Automatically rising/falling Stir Kinect smart desk now on sale for $3890, ships February
Smart Sit-Stand Desk Goes on Sale for $3,900 — My fingertips rise and fall about an inch over six seconds, as if my hands were resting on the chest of a sleeping person. But I'm touching a desk, no...
LG promises to stop your Smart TV spying on you
In light of accusations that its Smart TVs were sending private data to its servers, LG has admitted that some of its sets are behaving in ways they shouldn't be. In a statement, the Korean manufactu...
How Plain Vanilla Games, Maker Of Hit App QuizUp, Took Two Years To Create An Overnight Success
Stop me if you've heard this story before: A mobile game studio toils in obscurity for several years creating apps that no one seems to care about, and then one day it introduces its new project to th...
Google's Schmidt Sees Encryption Killing Censorship
Protecting Internet traffic with hard-to-crack code may prevent governments from censoring their populations' communications within a decade, Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt said. — Schmidt...
Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment called Spark
Google's Chromium team never ceases to amaze. Its latest project is a Chrome app-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) codenamed Spark. — The new app was first noted by developer …
Sprint dead last in Consumer Reports' phone service survey
The Sprint innovation center in Burlingame, Calif. — Sprint is eating everyone's dust. — The nation's third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber base sank to the bottom of a survey conducted by ...
Donna personal assistant app updated for iOS 7, lets meeting attendees know if you're running late
If you've ever run late for a meeting but weren't able to tell the other attendees because you're too busy battling traffic, then you might be interested in the latest update to Donna …
A university in Cyprus is the first in the world to accept tuition fees with Bitcoin
This university is the first in the world to accept Bitcoin for tuition — The Bitcoin craze has made its way to the educational system. — The University of Nicosia in Cyprus announced today …
Is the tide turning? Women filled 60% of tech jobs created this year
Could America finally be making progress towards getting more women into the tech industry? — New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests we might be. — Of the 39,000 jobs created in tec...
Google refreshes Shopping site with extended previews, 360-degree photos, ‘visually similar’ search
It's set to be a holly jolly holiday season, especially if you're keen to do your gift shopping online. Google's browser-based Shopping tool just scored a pretty comprehensive refresh …
What's He Really Like? Check the Lulu App
Not long ago, after Alexandra Amin, an assistant at Warner Brothers, broke up with an agent she had been dating for a year, her friend told her about a new, free, female-friendly social networking app...
HTC One max arrives on Verizon for $299 on contract
Following the launch of the HTC One max on Sprint earlier this month, Verizon this morning officially made availability and pricing details available. As expected from an earlier leak, Verizon is pri...
Facebook's latest open source effort: a flash-powered database called RocksDB
Facebook has open sourced a new embedded database called RocksDB that's meant to take advantage of all the performance flash has to offer, from right on the application server. It might be a sign of ...
Nokia's Finland HQ To Become A Microsoft Site Next Year, After Devices & Services Sale
The wheel of fortune symbolism is clear: as Apple prepares to break ground on a new UFO-esque HQ, the former kingpin of mobile, Nokia, is quietly preparing to move out of its own headquarters - to mak...
Wordpress Goes Legal: Sues Over Two Egregiously Bogus DMCA Notices That Were Designed To Censor
We've talked in the past about the unfortunate situation in which there is almost no real punishment for bogus DMCA notices. Section 512(f) of the DMCA is supposed to provide a way to get attorneys' ...
Haiku Deck tops 800,000 downloads, rolls out Web-based service to take on PowerPoint's stronghold
Haiku Deck co-founders Kevin Leneway and Adam Tratt at their new offices in Fremont. — Haiku Deck is one of Seattle's hottest startup companies. But up until today, I (and millions of other consume...
Microsoft Bringing Message Encryption To Office 365 In Early 2014
Microsoft is bringing message encryption to Office 365. The system will allow email to be automatically encrypted, even when sent to non-Office 365 users. So, you can use the protection with anyone,...
Qualcomm quakes: Sources say layoffs at mobile chip giant
Qualcomm, the mobile chip giant that eats competitors like Pac Man munches berries, is cleaning up its middle management ranks and is said to be making more cuts across the board in order to rein in e...
Verizon now offering prepaid $5 Daily Plan for tablets with 300MB of data
Verizon today took the wraps off of a new prepaid tablet plan aimed at consumers that need just a little data to nibble on while they're out and about. The new $5 Daily Plan is compatible with tablet...
Microsoft's Azure Cloud Computing System Hits Bumps, Taking Down Xbox Live And Other Services
Reports surfaced recently that Xbox Live had gone dark. Other Microsoft services have followed. The problems appear to stem from Microsoft's cloud computing service Azure, which is the brains for ma...
Quip unveils new features in latest update, including file importing from Word, Evernote, and Dropbox
Quip is releasing a product update today to its word processing application. Users can now import documents, apply new filters to their app inbox, implement a focus mode, and tweak notifications.
Acer Refreshes Aspire R7 With Haswell Processor, Active Stylus Support
Acer has announced that it's refreshing its unique multimodal 15.6-inch Aspire R7 laptop with a more powerful processor and active stylus support just in time for the holidays. Priced at $899, the Be...
SkyDrive gets camera backups on iOS, Facebook previews on the web
Windows Phone owners have long had the option of backing up their photos to SkyDrive, but Microsoft hasn't extended that courtesy to other platforms so far. The company must be feeling a little more ...
Twitter Adds Product for Advertisers to Target TV Conversations
Twitter Inc. (TWTR) added a tool for advertisers that will let them target users who are posting about television shows, seeking to capitalize on the way people use its microblogging service.
Chrome 32 beta arrives with animated WebP, NPAPI plugins blocked by default, and faster touch input for Android
A week after releasing the stable version of Chrome 31, Google has announced more features coming to Chrome 32 beta for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.
Vine Focuses On Global Expansion With 19 New Languages
Twitter's six-second video sharing app, Vine, today launches in a number of new languages. 19, to be exact. — New languages include Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japa...
Care.com Filed Secretly For 2014 IPO, Sources Say
Filing Expected to Raise Around $100 Million — Care.com Inc., an online service for hiring nannies and other at-home caregivers, has filed confidential paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Com...
4chan Creator's Drawing App Comes to the iPhone
Chris Poole is looking for another image-based hit. — The territory isn't foreign to Poole, who founded 4chan — the popular, anonymous online message board community notorious for its crazy photo sh...
NBCU May Invest in AllThingsD Journalists
Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher Will Be Starting New Company Next Year … NBCUniversal is close to a deal to take a minority stake in a new company being started by technology journalists Walt Mossberg and...
Commenting Startup Livefyre Acquires Realtidbits For Its Move Into Analytics
Commenting platform Livefyre is announcing today that it has acquired a company called Realtidbits. Apparently Realtidbits makes a number of social applications (we covered its real-time forum produc...
App.net crawls out from Twitter's shadow with Broadcast: notifications for anything
With one app, you can now subscribe to alerts about news, podcasts, sports, or any RSS feed — App.net CEO Dalton Caldwell once promised a better Twitter — “a real time social feed without the ads” …