Joint Statement: Mt.Gox's violation of trust doesn't reflect the resilience of the greater Bitcoin industry
Joint Statement Regarding MtGox — The purpose of this document is to summarize a joint statement to the Bitcoin community regarding Mt.Gox. — This tragic violation of the trust …
This is Nokia X: Android and Windows Phone collide
It's official, the Nokia X Android phone is here. Microsoft might be buying Nokia's phone business shortly, but the Finnish smartphone maker is still pushing ahead with the a launch of three Android-...
Sony's SmartBand fitness tracker will launch worldwide in March
Sony's SmartBand, the first product powered by the company's new Core fitness tracker, will be released worldwide in March. We got our first look at the product back at CES in January, and Sony is sh...
Sony claims the Xperia Z2 Tablet is the world's thinnest and lightest waterproof slate
With its VAIO PC business all but gone, Sony's betting big on smartphones and tablets. Three post-PC products are weighing surprisingly light in its pockets at this year's Mobile World Congress, the ...
Samsung refines winning formula with Galaxy S5, maintains distinct Galaxy software, plans April 11 launch alongside new Gear models
Samsung's Galaxy S5 is here with more power, more pixels, and a refined design — This year's flagship doesn't mess with a winning formula
Facebook retires its troubled @facebook.com email service
Facebook is retiring its email service, and has begun notifying users that all email sent to their @facebook.com address will soon be forwarded to their primary email address on file. Facebook users ...
Microsoft devices chief Julie Larson-Green takes on new role, will be replaced by Nokia's Stephen Elop
Julie Larson-Green, the former Windows executive who most recently led Microsoft hardware development as the top executive in the company's Devices and Studios Group …
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
A page from a GCHQ top secret document prepared by its secretive JTRIG unit — One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies …
Nokia Forks Android In Mobile Services Push — $122 Nokia X Will Also Be Lumia “Feeder”
$122 Nokia X Will Also Be Lumia “Feeder” — More proof, if proof were needed, that Android won the smartphone OS wars: Nokia, the former world No.1 smartphone maker and, nowadays, the primary OEM for ...
Qualcomm's 4- and 8-core Snapdragon 610 and 615 trade CPU power for 64-bit
Cortex A53 won't stand up to Krait, but Qualcomm adds a capable GPU to the mix. — Qualcomm's first 64-bit chip wasn't a record-breaking high-end Snapdragon, but rather the modest, mid-range Snapdrag...
The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist?
Chicago police say its computers can tell who will be a violent criminal, but critics say it's nothing more than racial profiling — When the Chicago Police Department sent one of its commanders …
ReSound LiNX Launches as World's First ‘Made for iPhone’ Hearing Aid
A new hearing aid launched today connects directly to iPhones and other iOS devices, allowing wearers to talk on the phone or listen to music, by GN ReSound, a Danish hearing aid manufacturer.
Gmail adding prominent ‘Unsubscribe’ option to marketing emails
Gmail users who get frustrated trying to find the “unsubscribe” link that's often buried in small type at the bottom of promotional emails may instead start seeing it before they even open the message...
Dropbox raises $350 million
Dropbox has another $350 million in the bank, and more may be on the way. — FORTUNE — Last month, reports surfaced that Dropbox had raised $250 million from Blackrock (BLK) in its final round of pri...
WhatsApp Is Actually Worth More Than $19B, Says Facebook's Zuckerberg, And It Was Internet.org That Sealed The Deal
More than a few people were surprised when Facebook said it would pay $19 billion for messaging app startup WhatsApp, but today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he believed it was actually worth...
IBM Unveils $1 billion Platform-as-a-Service Investment
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — IBM (IBM) revealed a more than $1 billion cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) investment on Monday, opening its middleware to the cloud for the first time and bolstering the conn...
New study analyzes Instagram selfies to constrast gender, age, and other features by city
Fantastic Infographics, Drawn From A Study of Millions of Instagram Selfies — Right now, there are more than 79 million photos on Instagram that fall under #selfie.
Messaging Giant WhatsApp, With 465M Users, Will Add Voice Services In Q2 Of This Year
Today Jan Koum, the CEO of WhatsApp, announced that messaging giant WhatsApp is finally moving into voice — a disruptive move announced at MWC, the conference for mobile carriers that WhatsApp is squa...
98% of mobile malware targets Android platform
If you consider all the hot new mobile products coming out of Mobile World Congress 2014, it's clear that the world as a whole is crazy about mobile devices. While it's no wonder that cyber crooks ar...
Moviefone Is Hanging Up, but Its App Will Go On
LOS ANGELES — Mr. Moviefone's lines are going dead. — For 25 years, residents of America's biggest cities have been able to call 777-FILM to receive movie listing information and buy tickets. The s...
Next-Gen YotaPhone Follow-Up Unveiled, With Full-Touch E-Ink Rear Screen
Russian mobile-making startup Yota Devices has just unveiled the next generation of its dual-screen smartphone, the YotaPhone. — As with the current first-gen model, which went on sale in Russia and...
Security certification group EC-Council's website defaced with Snowden passport
A screencap of the defaced EC-Council page. — The website for EC-Council, an “International Council of E-Commerce Consultants,” was defaced on Sunday evening. The hacker, who went by Eugene Belford...
SAP and Rackspace jump on the Cloud Foundry bandwagon
In a move that could bolster Cloud Foundry's position as an enterprise-class Platform-as-a-Service standard, SAP and Rackspace are throwing their weight behind the effort. — Those two companies, bot...