Twitter web gets new timeline filtering options, new profile design features ‘pinned’ and ‘best’ tweets
Coming soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile — Moment by moment, your Twitter profile shows the world who you are.
Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of systems protected by vulnerable versions of OpenSSL
The Heartbleed Bug — The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected …
Survey says 6000+ websites still hosted on Windows XP, including 14 belonging to US government
Thousands of websites still hosted on Windows XP — Thousands of websites are still hosted on Windows XP computers, despite the operating system reaching the end of its extended support period today.
Apple Genius' iOS battery life guide: disable location and background refresh for Facebook, don't quit apps
The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain — Updated April 7, 2014: added Step 8 to the list. — Added Korean Translation (provided by Yoon Jiman)
Apple's Damages Expert Makes Case for Why Company Due $2.19 Billion From Samsung
An Apple-hired damages expert on Tuesday told the jury that the iPhone maker is owed $2.19 billion in damages for infringing five patents between August 2011 and the end of 2013.
Sesame Street now has its own dedicated video-on-demand service called Sesame GO
Breaking Bad fan? Sign-up to Netflix. Looking to stream more recent theatrical releases? Check out Amazon Instant Video. Kids addicted to Sesame Street? Well, there's a new kid on the VOD block j...
Rather than diminish the web, mobile apps build on and diversify it, enabling new experiences
Rethinking What We Mean by ‘Mobile Web’ — Chris Dixon, in a piece titled “The Decline of the Mobile Web”, citing stats from ComScore and Flurry: … I think Dixon has it all wrong.
Comcast preparing wireless service built on combination of Wi-Fi and leased cellular capacity
Comcast Quietly Preps Challenge to Wireless Carriers — Google isn't the only technology giant thinking of offering new mobile phone plans to unseat wireless giants.
Ballmer, Not Nadella, Gave The Go-Ahead To Ship Office For iPad, Which Has Racked Up 12M Downloads
Update: I'm hearing that while Ballmer did intend to ship Office for iPad, it was Nadella who picked the date. This makes the below comment technically true, but perhaps slightly confusing.
Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion Selling Business Software Sans Salespeople
Atlassian, an Australian maker of online collaboration tools for businesses, is gunning for the same market as fast-growing startup Box Inc. And like Box, Atlassian is also now one of the world's …
U.S. Air Force is testing Google Glass & building apps for battlefield use (exclusive)
Above: Airforce test dummy wearing Google Glass — The U.S. Air Force's “BATMAN” research team at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is beta-testing Google Glass for possible use on the battlefi...
Teen interest in ‘iWatch’ growing as iPhone dominates field, study says
Apple's iPhone continues to lead all competing devices in the important U.S. teen demographic, but the future spenders of America are exhibiting fast-growing interest in new product categories like th...
Facebook Admits Users Are Confused About Privacy, Will Show More On-Screen Explanations
Facebook today offered reporters a deep dive on how it handles privacy and previewed some upcoming changes. The company revealed it does 80 trillion privacy checks per day on the backend to make sure...
Reddit Execs Ellen Pao and Jena Donlin Get Serious About the Site's Business (Q&A)
Reddit is one of the biggest sites on the Web. Now it just needs to start making it rain. — Since 2005, the online community message board and link-sharing site has risen from an esoteric bulletin ...
How thin, flexible electronics will revolutionize everything from user interfaces to packaging
As our computing requirements change, the nature of the underlying electronics needs to change too. We're moving into an era of wearable gadgets that require flexibility and new user interfaces …
Amazon A9′s VP of Search heads to Apple to fix up Maps search
Benoit Dupin, Vice President of Amazon A9′s Search Technology group, has left the high-profile search technology firm to take up a job with Apple. Dupin's profile from Amazon A9′s executive managemen...
Google launches Glass at Work program for businesses, courts enterprise developers
At Google, Bid to Put Its Glasses To Work — SAN FRANCISCO — At the 500 Club bar in the heart of the Mission district here, patrons are banned from wearing Google Glass.
Netflix Starts To Stream In 4K
Offers ‘House Of Cards’ Season Two, Selection Of Nature Documentaries In Ultra HD — Netflix confirmed Sunday that the second season of House of Cards and “some nature documentaries” are now availabl...
Hackers are breaching corporate networks increasingly via third-party devices and software
Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines — SAN FRANCISCO — They came in through the Chinese takeout menu. — Unable to breach the computer network at a big oil company …
Obituary: Windows XP passes away, leaving behind millions of mourning supporters
Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.'s beloved seventh major operating system and arguably the company's most successful, was left to perish on Tuesday at its creators' hands. It was 12 years, seven months ol...
Galaxy S5 review: more a refinement than a significant upgrade, waterproofing the only new good feature
Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: Watertight Yet Still Not Quite Right — A Water-Resistant Phone That Doesn't Make a Splash — Here's what you need to know about the new flagship smartphone …
S.F. cracks down on Airbnb rentals
Jeffrey Katz felt nauseous. — The special-ed teacher makes ends meet by hosting Airbnb guests in the living room of his San Francisco apartment. But last week, Katz found an eviction notice on his ...
Comcast files to start the TWC merger process. Here's how regulators should view the deal.
The federal review process for Comcast's $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable kicked off today with a mammoth blog post and a 180 page regulatory filing to the Federal Communications Commiss...
With its latest redesign, Twitter imitates Facebook in an effort to appeal to the mainstream
The Reason Twitter Wants to Look Like Facebook: Your Parents — There's blatant imitation, and then there's thoughtful strategy. At first blush, Twitter's new redesign …
Microsoft's $7.2BN Deal To Buy Nokia's Devices Business Gets The Nod In China
Chinese regulators have approved Nokia's planned sale of its devices business to Microsoft, taking the $7.2 billion deal one step closer to closing. — Nokia said today it has received regulatory app...
Windows 8.1 Update officially available for download, is ‘mandatory’ to all Windows 8.1 users
Windows 8.1 Update 1 has officially become available today. If you don't already have it installed on your system — as it made a couple of unofficial appearances over the last few weeks …
Build 2014: A very different Microsoft takes aim at the future
Microsoft's Build conference last week was Satya Nadella's first developer conference as CEO. It showed a Microsoft very different from the one we've seen before. For the first time in many years, t...
Collaborative-writing platform Wattpad gets $46M in financing for global expansion
Wattpad, a collaborative-writing community that helps new authors connect with a community of fans and fellow writers, has closed a new round of financing worth $46 million that co-founder and CEO All...
WhatsApp, E-Plus Launch A €10 SIM In Germany With Free WhatsApp Usage Included
Back in February, Jan Koum, CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, hinted that the company would soon be unveiling a new way of working with carriers, first in Germany, with special tariffs to access the app...
Samsung Gear Fit review: not as good as dedicated fitness trackers, weak battery life, notifications from Galaxy S5 work well
Samsung Gear Fit Review: The Smartwatch Gets in Shape — Gear Fit Takes a Step in the Right Direction by Combining Fitness with Phone Functions
Adobe debuts Lightroom Mobile for iPad with powerful, on-the-go photo editing
After briefly leaking earlier this year, Adobe is finally ready to show off its Lightroom Mobile for iPad software for photographers and photo editors. The iPad application borrows many of the essent...
Yahoo email anti-spoofing policy breaks mailing lists
In an attempt to block email spoofing attacks on yahoo.com addresses, Yahoo began imposing a stricter email validation policy that unfortunately breaks the usual workflow on legitimate mailing lists. ...
Farewell, Farecast: Microsoft kills airfare price predictor, to the dismay of its creator
One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which paid $115 million for the Seattle-based company six years ago this month …