Christmas delayed: Amazon offers $20 gift cards, refunds shipping charges after UPS and FedEx problems
Didn't get what you expected under the tree? It's probably marooned in a package delivery center. — Following widespread complaints about absent packages, Amazon …
Dogewallet announces Dogecoin theft, a dubious milestone for the new cryptocurrency that started as a joke
Millions Of Dogecoins Stolen In Apparent Heist — Much robbery, so anger, etc. Users of the functional joke currency are reporting emptied wallets.
Christmas shoppers on iOS outspent Android users by more than 5 to 1, according to IBM
Apple's iOS Completely Blew Away Google's Android For Shopping On Christmas — Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, continues to blow away Google's Android in mobile commerce, according to IBM analy...
Plain Vanilla Games, Maker Of Ultra-Hot Trivia App QuizUp, Raises Another $22 Million From Sequoia
Plain Vanilla Games, the company behind ultra-hot trivia app QuizUp, has raised a $22 million Series B Round of financing. The financing was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation …
LG mum on smartwatch rumors, but confirms that a wearable device is coming
Amidst rumors of 2K displays and octa-core CPUs for the LG G3, the Korea Herald has just added another: The upcoming smartphone will come with a G-Arch smartwatch and G-Health fitness band.
Amazon's “best ever” season saw 1M new Prime members in one week, 426 items sold per second
Amazon Prime tops 20 million members as company touts its best holiday season ever — Amazon is exiting the 2013 holiday season with “tens of millions” of Amazon Prime members …
Snapchat's popularity shows we all may want a more erasable Internet
The Internet doesn't necessarily have to keep our digital effluvia around forever. Do we want it to be erasable? — The Internet doesn't necessarily have to keep our digital effluvia around forever,...
2013: mobiles stagnated, wearables a letdown, arrogance of tech's ruling class increased
2013 was a lost year for tech — All in, 2013 was an embarrassment for the entire tech industry and the engine that powers it—Silicon Valley. Innovation was replaced by financial engineering …
Researchers show why the NSA's phone metadata is far from anonymous
Since the first of many leaked documents showed that the NSA has been gathering phone records en masse as part of its anti-terrorism program, there's been an ongoing fight over just what these records...
CTIA website shows mobile app data usage
A new website launched by mobile trade group CTIA shows smartphone and tablet users how much data is used by popular apps. — KnowMyApp.org, unveiled by CTIA Thursday, allows mobile device owners to ...
The Majority Of Porn In The United States Is Viewed On Smartphones
If you needed any more evidence that the era of ubiquitous computing is upon us, here is one stat that shows us how prevalent smartphones and tablets have become to the daily lives of people everywher...
The decade-long quest to stop “Spamford” Wallace
The federal courthouse in Las Vegas, where Wallace was questioned about his money. — Wikimedia Commons — On a warm April morning in 2007, one of the world's most notorious spammers walked through ...
Netflix is suffering an outage that is affecting users in the US, Canada and Latin America
Netflix suffered a significant outage last Christmas — on account of problems with Amazon Web Services — and, though it was fully operational on Christmas Day 2013, the service …
Scores of Music Services Stream Into Crowded Field
Many of the New Models Will Focus on Genre — The number of music-streaming services is set to explode next year, as record labels have warmed up to the idea of renting consumers access to a vast col...
KakaoTalk is used by 93% of South Korean smartphone owners, expects $200M revenue in 2013
With $200 Million in Revenue, South Korea's Top Messaging App Is All Smiley Faces — In South Korea, there's no escaping KakaoTalk. The country has a smartphone penetration rate of 73 percent …
Tech Stocks Hover Near 2013 Highs, Paving Way for 2014 IPOs Like Alibaba, Box and Dropbox
Today, the tech sector got a pretty nice post-Christmas present, as stocks of many companies in the sector continued to remain near their highs for the year. — And with 2013 seeing …