Microsoft's Xbox One Costs $90 More to Build Than Sony's PS4, Teardown Shows
With two significant game console releases recently, research firm IHS has been working a little extra overtime these days. After doing surgery on Sony's Playstation 4, the team gave Microsoft's Xbox...
Apple patents Lytro-like refocusable camera suitable for iPhone
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday awarded Apple a patent for a camera system that uses a microlens adaptor to enable refocusing of an image after the initial shot is taken, much like the...
Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic
Microsoft is moving toward a major new effort to encrypt its Internet traffic after concluding that the National Security Agency may have broken into its global communications systems, said people fam...
90% of iPhone 5s models now in stock at Apple retail stores
Supply of Apple's new flagship handset, the iPhone 5s, has nearly caught up with demand, as a new survey of the company's retail stores finds that 90 percent of models are available. — Availability ...
Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
Determined lawyers, and the father of modern crypto, couldn't stop TQP patent. — MARSHALL, TX—Newegg, an online retailer that has made a name for itself fighting the non-practicing patent holders so...
Google releases “OK Google” Chrome extension for hands-free voice search on the desktop
Google announced today on Google+ that it's releasing a new extension for Chrome that will enable hands-free activation of the voice search features it rolled out earlier this year.
Improved App Store Search Engine Now Corrects For Users' “Fat Finger” Mistakes & Other Misspellings
A recent change to Apple's App Store search engine now leads to improved search results for misspelled queries with small typos, we've learned. In addition, searchers looking for an app they know by ...
Moto G review: an affordable smartphone, done right
Since Motorola was acquired by a certain tech giant last year, its new owner hasn't had a particularly strong impact on the way it does business. Not too long ago, in fact, Motorola dealt another bra...
Apple Store a Big Source of Cellphone Sales; Best Buy Is Key for Carriers
The carrier stores are still the dominant place for Americans to get their new cellphones, but two other retailers — Apple and Best Buy — have emerged as significant channels. — Apple, of course, se...
Google brings Street View inside more than 65 airports and train stations, calls it a ‘first effort’
Foreign airports and train stations can often be confusing places to find your way around. Perhaps with that in mind, Google today launched an interactive map featuring Street Views of over 65 mass t...
Microsoft Hires ‘Pawn Stars’ to Bash Google Chromebooks
Microsoft has enlisted the reality-television series “Pawn Stars” in its ongoing campaign to bash rival Google. — An online video ad released Tuesday mimics the plot set up of “Pawn Stars,” which fe...
HP's Q4 Earnings Beat Street and Shares Rise
Computing giant Hewlett-Packard just reported its fourth-quarter results, and they're slightly better than expected, with some bad news mixed in. — HP's profit fell by 13 percent from the same perio...
America falls a dismal 31st on ranking of consumer download speeds (report)
30 countries have faster Internet than America, at least according to the most recent update from Speedtest.net. — Speedtest.net compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe, calcula...
Google now inviting developers to buy Glass
Now that Google has offered a preview of Glass' SDK and opened the Mirror API to all developers, it has a strong incentive to get its eyewear in the hands of app writers. Accordingly, the crew in Mou...
Researchers Retract Claim Of Link Between Alleged Silk Road Mastermind And Founder Of Bitcoin
Two Israeli mathematicians are retracting their claim that there was a link between Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto and the man accused of running illicit online marketplace The Silk Road.
New inks and tools allow 3-D printing of lithium-ion technology.
By making the basic building blocks of batteries out of ink, Harvard materials scientist Jennifer Lewis is laying the groundwork for lithium-ion batteries and other high-performing electronics that ca...
US senators Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, and Martin Heinrich: End the NSA dragnet, now
End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now — WASHINGTON — THE framers of the Constitution declared that government officials had no power to seize the records of individual Americans without evidence of wrongdoing...
Barnes & Noble's Nook business falls more than 32%
Barnes & Noble's Nook business continues to struggle in its competition with Amazon, with revenues in the segment declining more than 32 percent in the company's most recent quarter, according to numb...
With PrimeSense, Apple Got Key Mapping Technology
There's a lot of speculation about why Apple bought motion-sensor company PrimeSense. But I think the real reason has been overlooked. — PrimeSense's chips were in early versions of Microsoft's Kin...
YouTube comment spam on the rise. Google tries to fight back
Long term users of YouTube will know that its commenting system has always been home to some of the most unpleasant, purile and single-braincelled comments in the universe. — But what it didn't have...
Xbox One owners with hardware issues get complimentary game
Xbox One owners who found themselves on the receiving end of a defective console are being offered a free game for the inconvenience, according to emails from Xbox support representatives. — Accordi...
Acer announces touchscreen Chromebook C720P with 32GB SSD and 2GB RAM, coming in early December for $299.99
Acer today announced the Acer C720P Chromebook, a touchscreen version of the C720 Chromebook the company introduced last month. The new C720P will be available in early December at Amazon.com …
Touchscreen PCs expected to take 11 percent of 2013 notebook shipments
Apple has famously compared convertible Windows tablets to combining a toaster and a refrigerator, but competitors are still increasing their output of touchscreen notebooks in hopes of turning around...
Box Acquires dLoop To Enhance Security With Fine-Grained Data Analytics Technology
Box has acquired dLoop, a startup that provides ways for IT administrators to control access to content with finer granularity. The acquisition will give Box a level of data analytics that is often a...
Personal Finance Startup BillGuard Adds Analytics And Smart Savings Features To Its iPhone App
Personal finance startup BillGuard is launching an update to its iPhone app that will not only help users defend against fraudulent charges on their credit cards, but could also lead them to be more p...
Canalys: Half Of All PCs Shipped in 2014 Will Be Tablets; Android 65%, Apple 30%
The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping that of more traditional desktop and laptop personal computers for a while, and now it looks like we are finally approaching the tablet/PC tipping poin...
Apple Defeats Patent Claim Over Invention of Smartphone
Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, was found by a federal jury not to infringe the patent of a 70-year-old electrical engineer who claims he came up with the idea for the...
Twitter Continues Tweet Recommendation Experiments With Fav Happy @Magicstats
Twitter continues to pull the string on personalization and recommendation with a new account called @magicstats. The account, whose description reads ‘I favorite the best tweets I see in real-time’ ...
Skype names new partner in China, begins migrating users to updated software
Earlier this month Microsoft ended its partnership with TOM Online, the mobile Internet company that managed its Skype service in China; today it announced Guangming Founder (GMF) as the replacement.