Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2 at Moscone West in San Francisco
Developers Can Apply for WWDC Tickets Starting Today — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2 through June 6 at San Francisco's Moscone Wes...
iOS 7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock without a password
Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the password for the Apple ID attache...
Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board
Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California's anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporatio...
US govt secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest, sought funding from Jack Dorsey
US secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest — You are here — Home » United States government » US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms
European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect ne...
Imgur, the Image-Sharing Site, Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz
If you spend any measurable amount of time on the Internet, you've likely visited — or at least looked at — an image hosted on Imgur (pronounced “image-er"). — The photo-sharing service is extremely...
Google mulls offering wireless voice and data services in Fiber markets, talked with Sprint, Verizon about buying, reselling network access
Google Weighs a Plunge into Mobile Phone Services — After thrusting itself into competition with U.S. cable operators, Google is inching closer to competing with wireless carriers, too.
Google is testing an army of new features for Gmail
There's a whole new wave of features being considered for Google's popular email client, and on the list is more tabs, a new pin system, and the ability to temporarily quiet an email notification. — ...
Intel outs 64-bit KitKat Android, ‘Braswell’ chip for Chromebooks
Intel is touting a future system-on-a-chip for low-cost PCs and tablets and a 64-bit version of Android 4.4. — Toshiba's Chromebook uses a low-cost Intel Celeron processor. Intel's upcoming Braswel...
Speech Recognition Pioneer Novauris Bought By Apple, Team Now Works On Siri
Apple quietly acquired an automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology company called Novauris Technologies, which grew out of Dragon Systems R&D U.K. Ltd., the British research subsidiary of Dragon ...
Turkey lifts Twitter ban: official
A Turkish national flag with the word ‘offline’ projected on it, is seen through a Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, March 21, 2014. — (Reuters) - Turkey's telecoms authority ...
How Amazon Fire TV Stacks Up To Apple TV, Chromecast And Roku
Amazon has just announced its streaming TV media device, the Fire TV, and that means it now faces off against other tech giants and incumbents in yet another category. So how does the Amazon TK compa...
Twitter details its “Manhattan” real-time distributed database that helps it scale
This Is What You Build to Juggle 6,000 Tweets a Second — When you open the Twitter app on your smartphone and all those tweets, links, icons, photos, and videos materialize in front of you, they're ...
Twitter's Vine Introduces Direct Video Messaging
Twitter's Vine has introduced a feature that allows you to message other users directly via video. This adds both a direct messaging channel and video clips to its messages, a big addition to Twitter...
White House calls Samsung out on Ortiz's Selfie With Obama
Samsung Called Out on Ortiz's Selfie With Obama — The White House is pushing back against Samsung Electronics Co. for its promotion of a selfie that Red Sox slugger David Ortiz took with President B...
Microsoft open sourcing more developer tech: .NET Compiler Platform, C#, Visual Basic, more
Microsoft open sources more of its .Net technologies — Summary: From the truth-is- stranger-than-fiction files, Microsoft — along with its mobile-dev tool partner Xamarin …
[Rumor] “Android Silver” May Be Google's Attempt To Finally Provide A Premium Android Sale And Support Experience
If there's one thing we hear time and again about Android, it's the F word: fragmentation. While it's largely just an annoying word used to get under the skin of Android fans …
Google stock split creates nonvoting class, lets founders retain control when new stock issued
New Google Shares Hit Market as Founders Cement Grip With Split — More than 330 million new shares of Google Inc. (GOOG) land in the U.S. equity market today, completing a two-year process through …
IFTTT now works with iOS push notifications and looks great on the iPad
If you're a user of popular personal productivity service IFTTT (If This Then That) who also has an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, maybe you've wished that you could use iOS push notifications in your re...
Tesco Buys Into Ad Tech As Big Data Division Dunnhumby Nabs Sociomantic For Over $100M
UK-based Tesco, the world's second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use of big data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and...
Just Eat Joins Parade of London Tech IPOs, with £1.5-Billion Market Cap
The tech IPO parade continues in London. — Online restaurant-delivery company Just Eat PLC said Thursday it priced its initial public offering at 260 pence a share, giving it a market capitalization...
Open-source laptop Novena launches crowdfunding campaign, allows hacking its hardware
The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale — The Novena open source laptop. Photo: Crowd Supply — Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross want to sell you a laptop you can complete...
TomTom Runner Cardio sport watch has its finger on your pulse
The TomTom Runner Cardio gives rival fitness trackers and smartwatches a run for their money with built-in GPS and heart rate monitoring. — The TomTom Runner Cardio sports watch with GPS and heart r...
Microsoft open sources Windows Library for JavaScript
Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. — Now that the...
Clari, A Mobile-First Predictive Sales Tool, Comes Out Of Stealth With $6M From Sequoia
CRM behemoths like Salesforce and Oracle have made some significant inroads into mobile and specifically apps for mobile salespeople, but a new startup believes that its streamlined, mobile-first solu...
Messaging App Tango Hooks Up With Words With Friends
In Asia, mobile messaging apps are a dominant means of game and app distribution. Now, one of their many American peers, Tango, is positioning itself to be a bit more like Facebook, at least within t...
Alibaba's Jack Ma invests $532M for controlling stake in financial software firm Hundsun Tech
Alibaba's Jack Ma invests $532 million in financial software firm — (Reuters) - Jack Ma, the founder of China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the world's biggest e-commerce firm …
Barrett Brown Signs Plea Deal in Case Involving Stratfor Hack
Barrett Brown, whose case became a cause célèbre after he was charged with crimes related to the Stratfor hack, has agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors, according to court filings.
Vkontakte CEO in U-Turn After Announcing Departure
Pavel Durov Said on His Vkontakte Page That Resignation Was an 'April Fool's Joke' — MOSCOW—The unpredictable founder of Vkontakte, Russia's largest social-networking website, who earlier this week ...
Azure updates: 99.95% DB uptime, SQL DBs up to 500GBs, load management on sites, more
Microsoft announces broad swath of new features for Azure — SAN FRANCISCO - There are some big new features afoot for Microsoft Azure. As a part of the company's Build developer conference …
Jaunt Raises $6.8 Million for Virtual Reality Movies
Facebook and Sony are betting that games will be the first wave of virtual reality content, but that the uses for the technology will eventually broaden. Even before the Oculus Rift or Project Morphe...
Facebook Messenger updated on iOS, Android with free voice calls over Wi-Fi in all countries
Facebook Messenger 4.1 Adds Free WiFi Calls For All Users — Previously limited to the UK, US, and Canada on iOS and selected countries on Android, Facebook's Messenger app has today added free audio...
Globalfoundries Emerges as Lead Candidate to Buy IBM Chip Plants
Globalfoundries Inc. has emerged as the lead candidate to buy International Business Machines Corp.'s semiconductor manufacturing operations, people familiar with the matter said. IBM has also held t...
Facebook paid 330 security researchers $1.5M in 2013; adds Instagram, Parse, Atlas, Onavo to Bug Bounty program
Facebook today announced it paid out $1.5 million to 330 security researchers around the world in 2013 as part of its bug bounty program, which launched back in August 2011.
Boundary raises $22M to watch all your apps and infrastructure
These days, companies use lots of tools to ship code and deploy applications. Keeping track of everything can mean keeping a ton of browser tabs open and struggling to identify the biggest issues of ...
Flickr's Spiering Departs for Berlin Start-up EyeEm
U.S. online photo-hosting site Flickr lost its product head, Mark Spiering, to Berlin's nascent start-up scene. — EyeEm Mobile GmbH, which operates a Berlin-based, free photo-sharing app, said Thurs...
Google plans significant overhaul of many of its native and web apps in 'Google 2.0′/wearable push
Yesterday we got a look at a beta version of the upcoming Gmail app for Android which includes new Travel, Purchases, and Finance categories in addition to the Social, Promotions …
Intel outs 64-bit KitKat Android, ‘Braswell’ chip for Chromebooks
Intel is touting a future system-on-a-chip for low-cost PCs and tablets and a 64-bit version of Android 4.4. — Toshiba's Chromebook uses a low-cost Intel Celeron processor. Intel's upcoming Braswel...
FireChat's anonymous, off-grid messaging app arrives on Android
FireChat has been on a rollercoaster ride since developer Open Garden released it for iOS last month, peaking at well over 100,000 iTunes downloads a day last Tuesday. Open Garden is now hoping for a...
TomTom Runner Cardio sport watch has its finger on your pulse
The TomTom Runner Cardio gives rival fitness trackers and smartwatches a run for their money with built-in GPS and heart rate monitoring. — The TomTom Runner Cardio sports watch with GPS and heart r...
Tech Giants Team Up With Pharma to Protect Software Patents
Concerned that the value of their patents could be in some danger, Apple, Microsoft and IBM have teamed up with major pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers to launch a new industry group to talk ...
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo allows campaign nearing $1M for a dubious calorie-counting device
Indiegogo's Reputation May Hinge On Outcome Of GoBe Campaign … The above excerpt is from Dr. David Ahn's writeup today in iMedialApps, and it does a great job in outlining some of the concerns surroun...