Apple's U.S. and Canadian Black Friday Sales Go Live Online With Gift Card Deals
Apple's online stores for the United States and Canada have just come back online for Black Friday's one-day shopping event, and like its stores in Australia and New Zealand, the company is using bonu...
Apple Objects to Monitor's Fees in E-Books Antitrust Case
Apple Inc. said a monitor appointed by a judge to oversee antitrust compliance in its electronic books price-fixing case is charging too much money. — “Of all all known past Apple matters,” no lawye...
While Mulally/Nadella Remain the Favorites, Bates Is Silicon Valley's Choice for Microsoft CEO
About 10 days ago, AllThingsD reported once again that Ford CEO Alan Mulally was in the lead position to take over as CEO of Microsoft, with one internal exec as the No. 2 choice.
Google Nexus phones vulnerable to denial-of-service attack via SMS
Attackers could force phones from Google's Nexus line to reboot or fail to connect to the mobile Internet service by sending a large number of special SMS messages to them. — The issue was discovere...
Amid Some Fistfights, Walmart Sells 1.4M Tablets On Thanksgiving, iPad Mini A Top Seller
Walmart is already crowing about Black Friday and we're only a couple of hours into the actual day itself. That's because depressingly, Black Friday has somehow subsumed Thanksgiving Thursday and bec...
Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android
Despite Android's significantly larger installed base, iOS continues to dominate in monetization with a five-times-greater return rate for developers — a sign that Cupertino's market segmentation stra...
Demolition Man: why does Fab's CEO keep building big companies that suddenly implode?
Is Jason Golberg doomed to repeat his mistakes? — If you ask employees when they started to notice that something was wrong at Fab, they will usually mention the bike locks.
Vietnam announces big fines for social media ‘propaganda’
(Reuters) - Vietnam will hand out fines of 100 million dong ($4,740) to anyone criticizing the government on social media, under a new law announced this week, the latest measure in a widening crackdo...
Moto G now available on Amazon, ships December 4
Motorola's ultra-afordable Moto G finally became available in the United States earlier this week from the company's website, and now the device is available via Amazon (via Android Central). The onl...
Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler?
A voyage into the strange underworld of spambots, shady marketing, and non-human intelligence. — It was around 5pm last Thursday when Olivia, a San Diego high school student, noticed that something ...
A closer look at the Jolla phone: good intentions, bad delivery (video)
Jolla's self-titled and first smartphone launched in partnership with Finnish carrier DNA this week, with a few hundred handsets finding their way to early pre-orderers. Today, a couple of familiar f...
Thinkspace Pioneers hunt for the next teenage Mark Zuckerberg
A group of Plymouth teenagers is hoping to ‘mould and inspire the next generation of digital thinkers, makers and doers’ — Thinkspace Pioneers aims to find the next digital Richard Branson or Mark Z...
Thanksgiving Digest (IBM E-Commerce Edition): Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales
For many years, Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving - marked the start of the holiday shopping rush. But with many (not all) physical stores closed on Thanksgiving …
New research aims to teach computers common sense
Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean. — The system at ...
Google's Growing Patent Stockpile
The search giant says patents are rubbish. Yet it's accumulating more of them than ever. — Over the last few years, Google executives have had plenty to say about patents. According to Google, pat...
Mobile rules Walmart: Accounted for 53% of Thanksgiving traffic, new mobile customers up 3X
Black Friday is just beginning, but Walmart has already seen some impressive stats from shoppers on Thanksgiving day — especially when it comes to mobile. — The retail giant announced this morning …