A Whitman Sampler? Not Exactly, as Apple's Latest Ad Markets With Verse.
When the San Francisco 49ers met the Carolina Panthers in NFL playoff game Sunday, Apple was there. With a brand new ad, its first big broadcast spot touting the new iPad Air. — Dubbed “Your Verse ...
Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks - sources
(Reuters) - Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other m...
Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used in Attack
According to Target Chairman and CEO Gregg Steinhafel, point-of-sale (POS) malware was used in the recent attack that compromised millions of credit and debit card account numbers of customers across ...
Tablets initiated the PC decline; the complexity of Windows 8 accelerated it
Windows 8 and the Cost of Complexity — PCs just suffered their worse quarter ever. From the WSJ: … Here are the last 10 years of PC Sales from IDC (thanks to Charles Arthur, who wrote a great colum...
A third-party developer explains the challenges of working with Nintendo and the Wii U
The Secret Developers: Wii U - the inside story — From reveal to launch and beyond - a third-party developer talks about the challenges of working with Nintendo and its latest console.
BlackBerry CEO: our future devices will ‘predominantly’ have hardware keyboards
An excellent keyboard was Blackberry's original claim to fame. But after a couple years focusing on software keyboards with devices like the Z10 and Z30, the company is now looking back to its bread ...
Queries to DuckDuckGo increased over 2.5X after Snowden revelations, totaled 1B for 2013
Anonymous search tool DuckDuckGo answered 1bn queries in 2013 — The ‘anti-Google’, which searches the web without tracking or monitoring the user, now answers 4m queries a day
Web-Based Access To Dropbox Files Is Back For 99% Of Users, But Service Interruption Nears 48 Hours
Update: Dropbox says it has restored its core services for all users as of 4:40 PT, and it currently only has to work out a few kinks with the Dropbox photos tab.
All Hail The Uber Man! How Sharp-Elbowed Salesman Travis Kalanick Became Silicon Valley's Newest Star
Shafqat Islam's phone was ringing. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the number on the screen. It said unknown, but he took the call anyway. — “Hi, this is Travis,” a voice said.
Many companies showed curved TVs at CES. Gimmick or valid innovation?
More than one high-profile vendor showed off a curved-screen TV during their press conferences at the Consumer Electronics Show. But as soon as the show floor opened, it became clear that curved scre...
Sony Xperia Z1 Compact puts top-end specs into a 4.3-inch body (hands-on)
CNET Editors' Take — Sony is jumping on the bandwagon of making smaller, more pocketable versions of flagship phones, much as we've already seen from Samsung and HTC. Unlike its rivals however, Son...
Semiconductor designers researching “self assembling” circuits using nanomaterials
Designing the Next Wave of Computer Chips — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Not long after Gordon E. Moore proposed in 1965 that the number of transistors that could be etched on a silicon chip …
Steam Machines are here: how Alienware is realizing Valve's game console dream
Alienware leads the charge for Linux-based gaming PCs — Nearly two years ago, we broke the news that Valve was working on its very own game console. The reasons weren't yet clear.