Much Ado About Bitcoin
FOR the obsessive followers of the volatile virtual currency bitcoin, the price of a single bitcoin at the time their fixation began holds undue significance. I know one bitcoin cost around $9 when I...
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations …
iPhone 5S Wait Time Drops as Foxconn Boosts Production
The waiting time for iPhone 5Ss has shortened significantly as major assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has been running its factories around the clock, adding more workers to its production lin...
CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store
Today, we were contacted by the Google Play Support team to say that our CyanogenMod Installer application is in violation of Google Play's developer terms. — They advised us to voluntarily remove t...
NSA surveillance: Europe threatens to freeze US data-sharing arrangements
After Edward Snowden revelations, EU executive underlines US compliance with European law and ‘how things have gone badly’ — The EU executive is threatening to freeze crucial data-sharing arrangemen...
U.S. judge dismisses Apple consumer lawsuit over data privacy
(Reuters) - A California federal judge has dismissed a consumer lawsuit over data privacy against Apple Inc, saying the plaintiffs had failed to show they had relied on any alleged company misrepresen...
Bitcoin passes $1,000 mark for the first time, up over 62% in a week
Bitcoin hit a new milestone today, passing the $1,000 mark for the first time. The virtual currency is currently trading above the four-digit figure, with its highest at $1,030 on Mt. Gox, one of the...
Xbox Video launches on the web ahead of Windows Phone version
Microsoft is unveiling its Xbox Video web service today, ahead of a planned app release for Windows Phone. The web version, available at video.xbox.com, provides the same access to TV shows and movie...
Nokia announces the Lumia 525, an upgraded successor to the top-selling Lumia 520
Nokia has extended its family of smartphones with the Lumia 525, an affordable device that succeeds the popular Lumia 520 - which is its top selling Windows Phone device worldwide.
Lumia 520 continues to dominate Windows Phone, while Nokia crosses 90% threshold
Latest data from AdDuplex shows the Lumia 520 continuing to dominate. While at the same time Windows Phone 7.x concedes more market share to Windows Phone 8. Nokia finally reaches 90% dominance with...
[APK Teardown] YouTube 5.3 Reveals Upcoming ‘Music Pass’
There's a new version of YouTube out, and as usual, hidden inside its chocolaty center are hints at upcoming features and capabilities.
iPhone 5S/C made up 76% of new smartphone sales in Japan this October
Japan is probably the second best iPhone market, after U.S. At least in market share. China either already is, or will soon be bigger in absolute numbers. — Apple has been doing very well in Japa...
Angry Birds Go Will Be Stuffed With In-App Purchases, Some As High As $100 - Gamers Cry Fowl
The Angry Birds franchise has thus far been on the lighter side of the free-to-play model - the original game launched free and ad-supported on Android, and later versions added small charges …
Amazon Launches Online Video Service in Japan
More than 26,000 imported and local films and TV shows are available on the Instant Video platform that will compete in the crowded Japanese Web video market. — TOKYO - Amazon Japan launched its ‘In...
PayPal adds support for prepaid gift cards, thanks to patent-pending ‘pay anytime anywhere with any card’ system
PayPal today announced it has added support for prepaid gift cards, letting its users apply them to the purchase of products and services anywhere PayPal Checkout is available.
Rigging Time's Person of the Year poll? All in a day's twerk
When I heard that Time magazine was running another online voting component with its prestigious Person of the Year poll, the first thing I thought was, “Not again.” — Didn't the news magazine learn...
Target (Yes, That Target) Wants To Launch An Accelerator In India
Target has long looked to India to fuel its software applications and back-office projects. Now, the Minneapolis-based retailer is doubling down on the country's tech potential. — Come January 2014...
Post-Snowden, European Commission Sets Out Actions Needed To Restore Trust In E.U.-U.S. Data Flows
The European Commission has today detailed the actions it believes are required to restore trust in data-sharing agreements between the European Union and the U.S. following revelations …
OCZ filing for bankruptcy, assets could go to Toshiba
The writing has been on the wall for a while, and the axe has finally swung. OCZ is filing for bankruptcy. The SSD maker failed to comply with the terms of its loan agreement with Hercules Technolog...
Nearly 2000 Sites Vulnerable to Ruby on Rails Cookie Problem
A lingering security issue in Ruby on Rails that stems from a setting in the framework's cookie-based storage mechanism is still present in almost 2,000 websites. — Sites using an old version of Rub...
First Jolla smartphone from former Nokia staff goes on sale
Jolla, the smartphone startup founded by ex-Nokia engineers, is set to sell its first handsets from today in Finland, with availability in other countries to follow. — The Jolla handset runs the Sai...
Hewlett-Packard, CEO Whitman ordered to defend securities class action
(Reuters) - A California federal judge has ordered Hewlett-Packard Co and Chief Executive Meg Whitman to defend a securities shareholder class action that claims they knew statements about HP's acquis...
Futuremark Delists Android Devices Allegedly Cheating 3DMark, Samsung and HTC Ousted
Benchmarking is serious business, and we're not saying that tongue-in-cheek. Buying decisions are often made based on how well a product benchmarks, which is why we spend so much time putting hot …
Landmark Beyonce File-Sharing Prosecution Fails to Intimidate
Difficulties associated with gathering evidence against BitTorrent users have led authorities in Sweden to concentrate on file-sharing cases where large-scale infringement can be more easily shown.