iOS 7.1 to ship in time for next week's iTunes Festival, will be needed to stream event
iOS 7.1 and the iTunes Festival at SXSW — Apple's first iTunes Festival in the U.S. starts a week from today at SXSW in Austin. Apple is going to stream the performances to iOS devices using an app...
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer retiring after 18 years, to be replaced by VP of finance Luca Maestri
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer retiring after 18 years — Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer will retire at the end of September, after 18 years at the company.
Video shows setup process for Cortana on leaked build of Windows Phone 8.1
Exclusive: Cortana Voice Assistant on Windows Phone 8.1 [VIDEO] — Building on the videos showing off various brand-new features in the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update that we have brought you …
Bitcoin bank Flexcoin closes after hackers steal 896 bitcoin worth £365,000, Poloniex loses 12.3% of reserves in separate hack
Bitcoin bank Flexcoin closes after hack attack — Bank admits it does not have resources to cover loss of 896 bitcoin worth £365,000 stolen in raid
Yahoo to stop user access of services with Facebook, Google IDs
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will stop letting consumers access its various online services, including Fantasy Sports and photo-sharing site Flickr, by signing-in with their Facebook Inc or Google Inc creden...
Intel buying health-tracking wristwatch maker Basis for around $100M
Basis Goes To Intel For Around $100M — With $96.7M In Funding, Powa Technologies Debuts PowaTag For Mobile And Audio-Triggered Commerce — Intel has won the Basis auction, we're hearing, at a price...
DocuSign Raises $85 Million at $1.6 Billion Valuation
DocuSign, an electronic-signature software company, has raised $85 million from institutional investors, according to two people briefed on the matter. The fundraising values the company at roughly $...
Roku's new Streaming Stick works with most TVs, drops price to $50
When Roku released its first Streaming Stick in late 2012, it was a tough sell. It cost $99 (as much as the highest-end Roku box), only worked with TVs that were certified as “Roku Ready,” and it did...
Hands-on with Apple's CarPlay: when Siri met Ferrari (video)
Apple's in-car infotainment system has been a long time coming. After it was announced at the company's annual WWDC conference in June last year, “iOS in the Car” flew under the radar, only to underg...
Twitter Snafu Triggers Mass Reset of User Passwords
If you're a Twitter user, you may have an email sitting in your inbox telling you to change your password right now. — You aren't alone. — A number of Twitter users received password reset request...
Belgian judge considers forcing ISPs to block Apple websites over ‘misleading’ product warranties
A Belgian magistrate is reportedly considering forcing ISPs to block Apple websites in the country, following a complaint about the company ‘misleading’ consumers on EU-wide product warranty …
Ukraine hit by cyberattacks: head of Ukraine security service
(Reuters) - Ukraine's telecommunications system has come under attack, with equipment installed in Russian-controlled Crimea used to interfere with the mobile phones of members of parliament, the head...
Japan to regulate Bitcoin trades, impose taxes
TOKYO — The Japanese government will set rules for trading bitcoins, defining the virtual tender not as a currency but as a commodity akin to gold. — Gains from trading bitcoins on online exchanges,...
Aether's $399 Cone is a speaker that knows exactly what you want to hear next
It's a Saturday night and you're cooking dinner before some friends come over. You hit a button on the speaker in your kitchen and it starts playing Daft Punk. You didn't ask for Daft Punk …
Steven Ballmer Reflects on Missteps and Ponders the Future of Microsoft
OXFORD, England — A month after stepping down as Microsoft's chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer hasn't lost any of his energy. — In front of a packed crowd at the University of Oxford, Mr. Ballmer h...
Microsoft launches Skype for Outlook.com worldwide, adds Safari for Mac support and HD video calling for PCs
Microsoft today launched Skype for Outlook.com worldwide, expanding the service that was previously only available to a select few countries. At the same time …
IDC Expects PC Shipments to Fall by -6% in 2014 and Decline Through 2018
Worldwide PC shipments fell by -9.8% in 2013, slightly better than a projected decline of -10.1%, but still the most severe contraction on record, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
ServiceMax, Managing Service Teams in the Cloud, Lands $71 Million
We've all been there. A household appliance — a refrigerator, say — breaks down, and when the repair guy shows up to diagnose the problem, he realizes he doesn't have a needed replacement part.
Samsung spent nearly $20M on ad time during Oscars; Galaxy Note 3 used for Ellen's selfie shot
Behind Oscar Selfie: Samsung's Ad Strategy — Marketer Spent Nearly $20 Million on Ad Time—and Got Product Placement for Galaxy Phone — Samsung Electronics Co. likely spent nearly $20 million …
Apple's voracious appetite for acquisitions outspent Google in 2013
Apple is quietly investing far more money to acquire talent, technology and production capacity than the market appears to realize, having liberally outspent even Google over the past year. — Apple'...
Nuance announces Dragon Dictate 4, with pre-recorded transcription features and Gmail integration
Nuance has just announced the next major version of its Mac dictation software, Dragon Dictate 4. The new version improves recognition accuracy as well as several new features …
Blockchain acquires RTBTC, adds real-time trading, data, and news offering to become “the Bloomberg of bitcoin”
Blockchain CEO Nic Cary announced the bitcoin wallet company's second acquisition in 10 weeks this morning on Bloomberg TV, revealing that the company has acquired real-time charting …
Beats Music Buys Topspin
Beats Music's Chief Executive Ian Rogers on Tuesday announced his company is acquiring Topspin Media, a platform that lets artists sell merchandise and albums directly to fans. Beats Music Hires Ex-G...
Inside The Facebook-WhatsApp Megadeal: The Courtship, The Secret Meetings, The $19 Billion Poker Game
“Get together?” — The subject line of the e-mail was like every other come-on that hit Jan Koum's in-box in the spring of 2012. He was pounded daily by investors who wanted a piece of his company, ...
Facebook Paper Update Pushes Virality By Sending Download Links With Articles You Privately Share
Lifesaver iPhone Case Gives Your Smartphone A Dedicated Hardware Panic Button — Facebook's hoping to get more people downloading Paper by adding new options to share articles by text message …
Borro, The High-End Online Pawnshop, Raises $112M To Fill Its Finance Pool, Expand In U.S.
TechCrunch Meetup And Pitch-Off In Beirut Tonight — Borro, an online platform that lets people borrow cash and put up luxury watches, art and other fine goods as collateral …
Today's tech companies must build what they can't buy or risk losing control of their fate
Masters of Their Own Destiny — Like clockwork, apple introduces an upgrade to its iconic iPhone each year. Sometimes it's thinner or less curved, but much like a new Porsche, you can look at it and...
10 Years In: The birth of Engadget
The evening of June 23, 2005, wasn't especially hot in New York City, at least by historical standards. The day's high was a mere 79 degrees, slightly below average for late June, and well below the ...
Microsoft Makes The Office 365 Android SDK Available For Download
Today Microsoft has released the Office 365 software development kit for Android. With it, the company wants to invite developers to access Office data inside their apps. The SDK provides APIs grant...