Major League Baseball Completes iBeacon Installation at First Two Ballparks
Major League Baseball is set to announce on Friday morning that it has finished outfitting its first two ballparks with iBeacon sensors that will shoot messages to baseball game attendees' phones this...
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to buy voice-call app maker Viber for $900 million
Rakuten to Buy Voice-Call App Maker Viber — Japanese e-commerce Giant to Spend $900 million — TOKYO—Japan's Rakuten Inc. said it will acquire call-application maker Cyprus-based Viber Media Inc …
Microsoft Office reportedly coming to iPad in first half of this year, ahead of touch-friendly Windows 8 version
Microsoft Office on iPad: It's alive and coming sooner than most think — Summary: Microsoft's Office for iPad, codenamed Miramar, isn't dead.
Now There's a Federal Bill to Require a Smartphone “Kill Switch”
Following on the heels of a California bill, four Democratic senators on Thursday proposed a federal law that would require those that make cellular devices to equip them with the ability to be perman...
The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks
Over the past four years, KrebsOnSecurity has been targeted by countless denial-of-service attacks intended to knock it offline. Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity was hit by easily the most massive ...
Apple and Samsung headed back to court after mediation talks fail, say reports
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung's mobile chief and co-CEO JK Shin reportedly met last week to try and thrash out a settlement to their long-running intellectual property dispute.
Chrome speeds up web apps by compiling JavaScript in the background
Google: Under-the-hood change helps Web apps on Chrome — Google has taught Chrome how to walk and chew gum at the same time. — The newest Chrome beta version, 33, includes a feature called concurr...
Hackers circulate thousands of FTP credentials; New York Times among those hit
A list of compromised FTP credentials is circulating in underground forums — Hackers are circulating credentials for thousands of FTP sites and appear to have compromised file transfer servers at Th...
HTC “actively exploring” KitKat update for One X, blames Nvidia for delay
The HTC One X might get KitKat after all. — HTC — HTC's North American PR team took to Reddit to host an “Ask Me Almost Anything” session this afternoon. Many of the team's answers were sidesteps...
How an 18yo Texan who posted a facetious threat to Facebook now faces 10 years in prison
The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life — A young man's violent threat on Facebook lands him in jail, and limbo. — Approximately one hour after Justin Carter posted a sarcastic comment on a Facebo...
New T-Mobile “Jump” terms: upgrade as often as you like if 50% of old device is paid off
Details on upcoming JUMP! changes - Confirmed for Feb. 23 … Yesterday, we were given information by one of our sources on some upcoming changes to the JUMP! program.
Thousands of Tesco.com customer accounts suspended after hacker attack
More than 2,000 leaked usernames and passwords forced the retailer to suspend online shopping accounts — Tesco has been forced to deactivate online customer accounts after thousands of login details...
UrbanSitter Raises $15M To Harness The Power Of Social Recommendations In Child Care
UrbanSitter, an online service for parents and sitters to connect, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by DBL Investors with participation from Match Group, a division of IAC …
Ronny Conway Closes His Over $51 Million Early Stage Fund
Solo investor Ronny Conway has closed the early-stage fund he had left Andreessen Horowitz last year to raise. Last September, Dan Primack had reported that the fund was at least $30 million in size,...
Microsoft extends date for OEM preloads of Windows 7 for business users
Summary: Business users will be able to buy PCs with Windows 7 Professional preloaded beyond October 2014, according to a new change in Microsoft's lifecycle policy. — Microsoft is going to allow OE...
Court grants Apple's motion to dismiss Siri misrepresentation lawsuit
After two years of legal maneuvering, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken on Friday dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit alleging that Apple's iPhone 4S advertisements had misrepresented the capabi...
Google discloses details of E.U. antitrust settlement bid
Google reveals how it plns to settle an antitrust case over search result ranking — Google has done what the European Commission declined to do: publish the details of the latest commitments Google ...
When Twitter's IPO lockup expires Saturday, employees can sell 1.8% of company's shares
Twitter Employees' First Opportunity to Cash Out — A small pile of Twitter shares could be freed to the market this week as agreements that barred employees from selling a portion of their shares af...
New Apps Whisper and Secret Cater to a Craving to Dish Freely
Messaging Services Offer Anonymity and a Web With Fewer Consequences — Michael Edgeworth, a 20-year-old college student in Illinois, rarely texts and never tweets. — However, he sends more than 50...
Former Groupon Product SVP Jeff Holden Joins Uber As Chief Product Officer
Well that was fast. Just a few days after it was revealed that Groupon product chief Jeff Holden was leaving the daily deals giant to join a “Bay Area tech company,” we now know where he has landed.
Asian gaming giant Nexon announces Owen Mahoney as successor to CEO
Don't look now, but a foreign guy will become the boss at one of Asia's biggest game companies. Free-to-play online gaming giant Nexon has announced Owen Mahoney's appointment as the successor for th...