‘Flappy Bird’ Removed from App Store by Developer
As promised, Dong Nguyen, the developer of Flappy Bird, has removed the popular game from the App Store. Flappy Bird has been the number one downloaded free app on Apple's App Store for almost a mont...
Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It's unforkable.
As happens from time to time, the suggestion has been made that Microsoft cancel Windows Phone, and instead fork Android. It's not the first time this suggestion has been made. It's probably not the...
Windows Phone 8.1 Notification Center revealed in leaked screenshots
Microsoft is currently preparing its first major update to Windows Phone 8. A highly requested Notification Center feature will be included with Windows Phone 8.1, allowing users to customize and con...
The coin prince: inside Bitcoin's first big money-laundering scandal
What last week's arrest of Charlie Shrem means for the virtual currency — A week ago, 24-year-old Charlie Shrem landed at JFK, home from giving a talk about the virtual currency Bitcoin at an e-comm...
Entering the Era of Private and Semi-Anonymous Apps
Today's Web-enabled gadgets should come with a digital Miranda warning. “Anything you say or do online, from a status update to a selfie, can and will be used as evidence against you on the Internet....
Nicholas Felton, designer of Facebook's Timeline, releases Reporter app to privately track your life through simple surveys
Reporter for iPhone tracks your whole life, one quiz at a time — Chart wizard Nicholas Felton's new app lets anyone live the quantified life
Data suggests ISPs are throttling video streaming. Will the FCC do anything about it?
There's something rotten in the state of online video streaming, and the data is starting to emerge — If you've been having trouble with your Netflix streams lately, or maybe like David Rafael …
Twitter's Other Growth Problem: Keeping the Users It Already Has
Yes, Twitter has a growth problem. But more than that, the company has another headache: Getting people to stick around after signing up. — According to people close to the company, Twitter has see...
Quora is likely to “put ads with its answers” in 2015 to capitalize on evergreen traffic
Quora and the Search for Truth — The Internet has a nagging problem: There is lots of information, but often confusion about what's true. Many big websites try to solve this problem with their serv...
Carl Icahn 2.0: an icon of '80s greed is back to shake up Silicon Valley
The wild success and massive cash hoards of today's technology firms are perfect targets for this activist investor — For techies scanning the headlines over the past few months, one name has become...