Google Teams With GM, Honda, and Audi to Bring Android to Cars
That kid—the one in the back of the SUV with the iPad—is the automotive industry's worst enemy. He's also the reason some of the world's biggest automakers are working with Google to bring its Androi...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announces McAfee brand name will be replaced by Intel Security
At CES 2014 today, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the McAfee brand name will be phased out and replaced by “Intel Security,” which will identify Intel products and services in the security segment...
The Inside Story Of Snapchat: The World's Hottest App Or A $3 Billion Disappearing Act?
THIRTEEN MONTHS AGO Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the richest twentysomething in history, reached out to Snapchat's Evan Spiegel, who oversees a revenue-less app that makes photos disappear, with an inv...
Intel's Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card, runs Linux, has built-in WiFi and Bluetooth modules
Intel announces Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card — Four months ago, Intel unveiled its Quark SoC at IDF. Today at CES 2014, company CEO Brian Krzanich wants …
AT&T's Sponsored Data is bad for the internet, the economy, and you
Another brick in the wall — AT&T today announced a new “Sponsored Data” program that lets developers and brands pay to deliver content to your mobile device outside of your data caps.
Asus outs the VivoTab Note 8, an 8-inch, $300 Windows tablet with a Wacom stylus
LAS VEGAS—Asus will join the likes of Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba when it ships its new 8-inch Windows tablet powered by an Intel Bay Trail-class CPU. But the Asus VivoTab Note 8 has one key differenti...
Sony's waterproof flagship Xperia Z1S coming to USA January 22 for $528 at T-Mobile
Sony Xperia Z1S: a waterproof flagship exclusive to T-Mobile (hands-on) — For the past two years, Sony Mobile could be counted on to introduce new Xperia smartphone lines at CES — the S and Z, speci...
T-Mobile to buy unused Verizon spectrum in deal worth over $3 billion
T-Mobile has agreed to buy 700 MHz A-block spectrum from Verizon Wireless for $2.365 billion. The sale will also see T-Mobile transfer certain AWS and PCS spectrum licenses with a value of around $95...
How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship For Good
Over the past few years The Pirate Bay has had to deal with its fair share of censorship, mostly through court-ordered blockades. — In response to these efforts the site launched the PirateBrowser l...
Pebble Reveals The Pebble Steel For $249 Shipping Jan. 28; App Store Coming Soon
Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is introducing something everyone has been waiting for at CES this year: new hardware. But the hardware isn't so new that it throws the baby out with the bath water …
Roku Moves Beyond The Box, Partnering With Hisense And TCL To Introduce Roku TVs
Who would have thought that streaming set-top box manufacturer Roku would actually introduce a TV before Apple? Well, it looks likely that's going to happen, thanks to partnerships with Hisense and T...
Asus ZenFones: An Android Army with Intel Inside
After years of bringing you the horror/glory that is the PadFone and FonePad, Asus is branching out on its fone offerings and introducing not one, not two, but three flavors of “ZenFone,” Android hand...
Linksys resurrects classic blue router, with open source and $300 price
Now owned by Belkin rather than Cisco, Linksys joins its past to its future. — A year after purchasing the Linksys home networking division from Cisco, Belkin today brought back the design of what i...
Microsoft Acquires Parature For $100M In Deal To Bolster Knowledge Base For Dynamics CRM Platform
Microsoft has acquired Parature, a customer service SaaS provider, for $100 million, according to sources close to the deal. The Parature acquisition gives Microsoft Dynamics, its CRM platform …
S.F. to charge operators of tech commuter buses
(01-06) 13:18 PST SAN FRANCISCO — The operators of employee shuttle buses for Silicon Valley technology and Peninsula biotech firms, which have become a symbol of income disparity in San Francisco, wi...
Samsung's new Galaxy Tab Pro series comes in 12-, 10- and 8-inch sizes, but looks a little too familiar (hands-on)
Not stopping with its new productivity-centered Galaxy Note Pro, Samsung has three more tablets to launch this year. Say hello to the Galaxy Tab Pro, in 12.2-, 10.1- and 8.4-inch screen sizes.
SteelSeries announces the first MFi Bluetooth game controller for iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch
Today we get a look at the first Apple authorized Bluetooth game controller for iOS devices with the Stratus Wireless Controller announced today by SteelSeries. — We've already reviewed …
Apple promises to diversify its board after shareholder pressure
Apple Facing Criticism About Diversity Changes Bylaws — Apple Inc., facing behind-the-scenes pressure from some shareholders to add more female directors and executives, has taken a step to address ...
The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable
And Often Unpatchable — We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself — as with the Internet of Things. These embe...
LG Lifeband touch and Heart Rate Monitor earphones aim to help you keep fit
Televisions aren't the only thing LG brought to CES this year — it's lugged along a couple of wearable fitness devices, too. In fact, we've already seen one of them. The company's FuelBand competito...
Ubuntu's desktop interface to include torrent search with license filtering by default
Ubuntu Will Add Torrent Search to Embed Free Culture Into User Experience — In early December 2013 there was a nice announcement for Ubuntu users. Software developer David Callé revealed …
Rebooting webOS: how LG rethought the smart TV
Four years after it was first introduced, webOS comes back to CES in a radically different form — Things never went very well for webOS. Between its blockbuster launch at CES in 2009 and its relaun...
Why the world needs OpenStreetMap: no one company should have a monopoly on place
Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap — Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask “Why not use Google Maps?”. From a practical standpoint, it's a reasonable question …
Asus rides the 2nd Wave of 802.11ac atop its new Wi-Fi router
Asus unveiled a new 802.11ac router at CES in Las Vegas on Sunday. I know, big whoop right? The newest and fastest Wi-Fi technology has been on the market for over a year — 802.11ac has already take...
MakerBot announces Replicator Mini 3D printer: one-touch printing for $1,375
When MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis hit the CES stage today, he was joined by three tall, somewhat ominous black boxes (along with, strangely, acoustic versions of Goo Goo Dolls and Stone Temple Pilots hits)...
Mashable raises $13 million to launch expansion effort
Nearly a decade into its existence, the news Web site Mashable is taking on outside investors for the first time. — The site plans to announce on Monday that it has raised $13.3 million in an equity...
Corning's antimicrobial Gorilla Glass can kill bacteria on your smartphone
It's no secret that smartphones are gross. More than 59 percent of phone users have confessed to using their device in the bathroom, and those are just the people willing to admit as much to a survey...
Samsung Posts First Profit Decline Since 2011 Amid Apple Battle
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted its first profit decline in nine quarters as Apple Inc. (AAPL:US)'s newest iPhones won high-end handset sales and competition from cheaper makers crimped prices...
Dish's ‘Virtual Joey’ app brings the Hopper DVR experience to LG Smart TVs
Dish already makes it fairly easy to watch live TV and DVR content throughout your house. Its small Joey set-top box can be placed in any room and communicate with the main Hopper in a customer's liv...
Pinterest Acquires Image Recognition And Visual Search Startup VisualGraph
Pinterest has just acquired two-man startup VisualGraph, which creates machine vision, image recognition, and visual search technologies. The company's founder Kevin Jing and his partner David Liu ar...
Netgear's HDMI Dongle Is Your Storage-Friendly Answer to Chromecast
While Google's Chromecast might seem poised become the quintessential universal streaming device, it's taking a hell of a long time to get there. So in the meantime, Netgear's new NeoMediacast dongle...
Microsoft reportedly considers letting consumers pick a device and then its OS: Windows Phone or Android
We've already heard rumors that Microsoft has courted smartphone OEMs to offer dual-boot options for Windows Phone and Android, as well as looked at cutting the licensing fees that it normally charges...
Induct introduces Navia, the first commercial driverless vehicle, a $250k electric shuttle
Induct Now Selling Navia, First Self-Driving Commercial Vehicle — Induct Technology has begun selling the world's first commercially available self-driving vehicle, Navia.
Source: AOL Tried to Buy Business Insider for $100M+
AOL Inc. (AOL) offered to purchase BusinessInsider.com, a popular business and technology news website, for more than $100 million but talks ultimately broke down when the two sides couldn't agree on ...
Sony's new UHD TVs are built to support Netflix in 4K when it arrives
3D? Pah. 2014 is the year that 4K makes its first grand assault upon the mainstream. Naturally, Sony is one of the names leading the charge, and is bolstering the 4K support it added to the Video Un...
Palo Alto Networks Buys Cyber Security Startup Founded By Former NSA Engineers, Morta
In its first acquisition, security company Palo Alto Networks is acquiring stealthy cyber security startup Morta Security. Financial details were not disclosed about the transaction …
Ex-Motorola CEO Jha appointed chief of GlobalFoundries
(Reuters) - Contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc has appointed former Motorola Mobility chief Sanjay Jha as CEO, as it prepares to invest $9 billion to $10 billion over the next two years on next-ge...
Chevrolet and OnStar announce in-car 4G LTE connectivity and curated AppShop
Chevrolet, AT&T and OnStar banded together yesterday at CES 2014 to offer us a glimpse of the heart of the Connected by OnStar 4G LTE infotainment offering: AppShop. The new service will feature a cu...