Amazon's Drone Fleet Delivers What Bezos Wants: An Image of Ingenuity
In his 2010 internal “Amazon.Love” memo to senior executives, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos identified a serious problem that can plague big, successful companies: they tend to be feared and, in some quarters...
Apple acquires Topsy, a company specializing in Twitter search and analytics, for more than $200M
Apple Taps Into Twitter, Buying Social Analytics Firm Topsy — Apple Inc. has acquired social-media analytics firm Topsy Labs Inc. for more than $200 million, according to people familiar with the ma...
Amazon Kindle Fire commercial mocks the iPad Air with a Jony Ive parody
Amazon is the latest company to take on Apple's distinctive advertising style in its own commercials, this time by pitting the iPad Air against Amazon's 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDX using what seems like ...
Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’
The CEO of the world's biggest telecommunications equipment maker, which for years has been labeled by U.S. officials as a proxy for Chinese military and intelligence agencies, says he's giving up on ...
Microsoft codename ‘Threshold’: The next major Windows wave takes shape
Summary: Microsoft's wave of spring 2015 updates to its various Windows-based platforms has a codename: Threshold. — When I blogged recently about Microsoft's plans on the operating-systems front fo...
U.S. Department of Justice gives Microsoft-Nokia deal the OK
Summary: The U.S. DOJ has given its approval to Microsoft's planned $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has given its approval t...
Yahoo Acquires Natural Language Processing Company SkyPhrase To Help Drive Intent Identification
Yahoo has acquired SkyPhrase, a startup that builds natural language processing technology, the company revealed today in a blog post. SkyPhrase will join Yahoo's New York office …
Engadget's Cyber Monday 2013 roundup
As tempting as post-Thanksgiving savings are, some of us simply aren't brave enough to face the Black Friday hordes. That doesn't mean stay-at-home shoppers aren't still looking for a bargain: Cyber ...
Apple Gets “Significant Bounce” On 5c, 5s iPhones; Android Still Trumps With 71% Share Of All Sales
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP market research division that provides a rolling check-in on how smartphones are selling in key markets, has put out its latest figures this morning covering the 12 ...
Scientist-developed malware covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound
Topology of a covert mesh network that connects air-gapped computers to the Internet. — Hanspach and Goetz — Computer scientists have developed a malware prototype that uses inaudible audio signal...
Newsstand sucks in iOS 7
Hamish McKenzie: … The problems with Newsstand go even deeper on the technical and economic side: — Auto-renewing subscriptions, which launched as effectively Newsstand-exclusive, are now permitted i...
Hangar 3: Google building three floating retail stores for $35 million, to be docked in SF, LA and NY
Google plans ‘floating retail store,’ builder says — It turns out that the mysterious high-tech barge that Google is building at Treasure Island is just the first of three floating wonders …
Dell's UltraSharp 32 and new UltraSharp 24 4K monitors are available now, 28-inch model on the way
4K is here to stay, what with a vast number of companies ramping up production on all types of different panels. Today, Dell is the latest one ready to join the frenzy in full force …
Oppo's swiveling N1 smartphone to be available worldwide on December 10th for $599
Oppo promised that its swivel camera-toting N1 smartphone would arrive in December, and it's making good on that promise today by offering international launch details. An unlocked HSPA+ version …
Salesforce Says Hackathon Winner Didn't Cheat But Declares Tie, Gives Two Finalists $1M Each
Microsoft Rolls Out Student Advantage, Giving Students Free Access To Its Office Suite — Salesforce has responded to cries of foul play in its $1 million hackathon by announcing …
Google Glass gets official Play Music app
Google continues to add apps to its MyGlass app page with an official Glass-ification of its Play Music app. Google released an official version of its Play Music app for Google Glass on Monday. The...
Amazon Rejected by U.S. High Court on New York Sales Tax
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed out of the multibillion-dollar fight over Internet sales taxes, leaving intact a New York law that forces Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) to collect money from customers in that s...
Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens
• Secret 5-Eyes document shows surveillance partners discussing what data they can pool about their citizens — • DSD indicated it could provide material without some privacy restraints imposed by ot...
Lack of competition, not technological barriers, prevents ISPs from offering gigabit speeds
Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren't selling you gigabit Internet — “Perhaps you should switch to another cable company... oh, that's right, we're the only one in town.” — Viacom
Cyber Monday Sales Increase 19%, Aided by Mobile, IBM Says
Cyber Monday online sales increased 19 percent compared with last year, setting the foundation for what's projected to be the biggest online shopping day of 2013. — Retailers catering to smartphone ...
Facebook tweaks News Feed to surface more articles and fewer memes, resurface stories when friends comment
Facebook today announced tweaks to its News Feed algorithm that focus on articles. In particular, the company is looking to surface more articles that get clicks on mobile devices …
Edward Snowden revelations prompt UN investigation into surveillance
UN's senior counter-terrorism official says revelations ‘are at the very apex of public interest concerns’ — The UN's senior counter-terrorism official is to launch an investigation into the surveil...
Comcast testing full ad loads for on-demand shows
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pay TV customers who are used to watching fewer ads on on-demand shows may have to put up with longer commercial breaks. — Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable TV provider, s...
Microsoft launches Student Advantage worldwide, lets teachers who bought Office 365 give it to students for free
Microsoft today announced the worldwide launch of a program called Student Advantage. In short, the move lets teachers offer Office 365 to their students for free.
From ‘Preggers’ to ‘Pizzle’: Android's Bizarre List of Banned Words
There's no “sex” at the Googleplex. — Type or swipe the word on the latest version of Android's Google Keyboard — or for that matter “intercourse,” “coitus,” “screwing” or even “lovemaking” — and th...
Dropping the needle: the life and death of Turntable.fm
Meet me in the club, it's going down — Tonight at 10PM EST, the virtual DJs at Turntable.fm will be escorted off the stage for the last time. Two and a half years after founders Billy Chasen and Se...
BlackBerry Sends Out Another 'We're Not Dead' Notice, This Time Homing In On Enterprise
BlackBerry got a lot of chaff from the press for issuing full-page print newspaper ads effectively reminding customers they're not dead, likely to counter rumors to the contrary in a lot of headlines ...
So, Jolla, what are you working on now? 'There are things that the world hasn't seen yet'
Summary: Jolla's handset release this week is the culmination of two years' hard graft. How did the Finnish startup manage it - and what's it working on next? — Jo Best
FCC Chair Hints at Spectrum-Allocation Idea
Regulator Indicates He Favors Making Sure Smaller Wireless Carriers Get Airwaves — The nation's top telecommunications regulator on Monday gave his strongest indication to date that he might support...
OCZ Says Toshiba to Buy Assets for $35 Million
Defunct flash-storage vendor OCZ Technology Group (OCZ) this afternoon announced that Toshiba (6502JP) will buy the company's assets out of bankruptcy for $35 million, including both OCZ's consumer bu...
Encryption products, now proliferating after NSA revelations, may leave users no more secure
Techies vs. NSA: Encryption arms race escalates — You are here — Home » Edward Snowden » Techies vs. NSA: Encryption arms race escalates — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) …