Sources: Production of 4.7" iPhone 6 screen to begin in May, 5.5" starting months later
New iPhone 6 screens to enter production as early as May: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc suppliers will begin mass producing displays as early as May for the next iPhone, expected to be launched th...
How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today
Courtesy Paul Buchheit … What Does Google Email Look Like? … Going Public
Balderton Raises $305m for European Series A Tech Investments
Venture-capital firm Balderton Capital has opened a $305 million start-up fund, hoping to spread out lots of small investments and have a bigger chance of hitting it big. The company, one of the top ...
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg's Base Salary Falls to $1
Mark Zuckerberg has decided he's a $1-a-year man. — Zuckerberg, who is Facebook Inc. (FB)'s chief executive officer and also the 22nd richest person in the world as ranked by the Bloomberg Billionai...
How ‘Game Jam,’ an indie game dev reality show, collapsed on its first day of filming
Game_Jam, a TV-style reality show focused on the efforts of indie game developers, has collapsed in the most publicly acrimoniously way imaginable, participants say. — Touted by its makers as a cont...
Pavel Durov Resigns As Head Of Russian Social Network VK.com, Ukraine Conflict Was The Tipping Point
Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte.com, has announced on his VK.com page that he has stepped down as the head of the social network — Russia's largest, with over 100 million users …
April Fools 2014 roundup: drones, selfies, smartgloves and more
For the last 24 hours (and likely the next 12), excitable company execs have been barraging our inbox,YouTube and your social media networks with their best shenanigans. Love it or loathe it (and you...
Samsung Galaxy Tab4 10.1, 8.0 and 7.0 flesh out midrange
Samsung has revealed its new Galaxy Tab4 range of Android tablets, spanning three screen sizes and due to hit stores in Q2 2014. The Galaxy Tab4 10.1, 8., and 7. each use a WXGA 1280 x 800 16:10 disp...
Microsoft's Bing expands Snapshot feature to surface doctors, dentists, lawyers, and real estate listings
Microsoft today updated its Bing search engine to show more information via the Snapshot feature, which pulls together connections between people, places, and the “things you care about” …
HP agrees to pay $57 million to settle shareholder lawsuit
(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to pay $57 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the personal computer maker's former management of defrauding shareholders by abandoning a business model it h...
Pebble asks users not to install v2.1 update, citing critical issue that breaks app
Pebble is asking its users not to install the version 2.1 update for the iPhone that was released March 31st, citing a critical issue that prevents the app from working. — The company does …
Jawbone acquires personalized music service Playground.fm, deal said to be “over 8 figures”
Jawbone Snaps Up Playground.fm — Looks like instead of being acquired, wrist and speaker hardware company Jawbone is doing some acquiring, scooping up social and personalized music …
Yahoo Mulling Plans to Ax Its Shine Women's Site, Opting for More Online Lifestyle “Magazines”
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is poised to take an ax to its longtime and massive women-focused content site Shine, closing it down by the second quarter, according to numerous sources close to the situation.
Google Takes Wi-Fi Snooping Scandal to the Supreme Court
The biggest U.S. internet wiretapping program outside the NSA may be headed to the Supreme Court. — Google is asking the high court to rule on the legality of the company's past sniffing of unencryp...
Marvell patent verdict grows to $1.54 billion
(Reuters) - A federal judge ordered Marvell Technology Group Ltd to pay nearly $1.54 billion for infringing two hard disk drive patents held by Carnegie Mellon University, nearly one-third more than a...
Supreme Court Skeptical During Software Patent Arguments
Supreme Court justices jumped into the debate about how software patents are enforced Monday, but their questioning suggested a desire to avoid any massive changes to how courts should examine infring...
NSA chief's legacy is shaped by big data, for better and worse
Gen. Keith Alexander, who just retired as NSA director, achieved ‘absolutely invaluable’ results with digital spying but failed to anticipate how the public would feel about privacy. — “We need to r...
Apple Is Suing Samsung For $2 Billion Over These 5 iPhone Features
Apple is back in U.S. court with Samsung this week, suing the Korean software maker for $2 billion. — The last time the two companies met in the U.S. was in 2012. Apple won a $1 billion judgment Sa...
Surprise, surprise: my online metadata actually reveals where I've been
Here are some of the places that Ars tracked Cyrus Farivar to in February 2014. — In January 2014, documents provided by Edward Snowden showed that a Canadian spy agency used a unique identifier to ...
Judge orders Mt Gox CEO to U.S. for questions on failed bitcoin exchange
(Reuters) - The chief executive of Japan's Mt. Gox, once the world's leading bitcoin exchange, was ordered to the United States to answer questions related to its U.S. bankruptcy case, filed after the...
BlackBerry Ends Licensing Agreement With T-Mobile
Blackberry Says Strategies Are Not Complementary — TORONTO— BlackBerry Ltd. said late Tuesday that it is ending its licensing agreement with T-Mobile Inc. when it expires later this month, a surpris...