Samsung plans to launch Tizen smartphones in Q2 and an Android Wear smartwatch later this year
Samsung executive says Galaxy S5 to outsell S4, sees second quarter rollout for Tizen phone — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's new Galaxy S5 smartphone should outsell its predecessor …
Mt. Gox gives up plan to rebuild under bankruptcy protection, files for liquidation
Mt. Gox Files for Liquidation — Defunct Bitcoin Exchange Gives Up On Plan to Rebuild — Defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has given up its plan to rebuild under bankruptcy protection and has asked …
Apple is planning to integrate song-identification into iOS 8, in partnership with Shazam
Apple Said to Prepare Song-ID Feature for IPhone Software — Apple Inc. (AAPL) wants to help you name that tune. — The company is planning to unveil a song-discovery feature in an update …
Study: 37% of the roughly 781M games owned on Steam have not been played once
Introducing Steam Gauge: Ars reveals Steam's most popular games — Right now, I can tell you that about 37 percent of the roughly 781 million games registered to various Steam accounts haven't even b...
Google Project Tango smartphone prototype teardown
Project Tango Teardown — It's 2014 and the future is now. Google's engineers have been hard at work bringing the virtual to reality with projects like Google Glass, and their newest 3D mapping tech...
Marissa Mayer's Secret Plan to Get Apple to Dump Google and Default to Yahoo Mobile Search
Wall Street gave Yahoo stock a big boost today — largely due to the stellar quarterly performance of China's Alibaba, in which the Silicon Valley Internet giant has a big stake.
Inside Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant with 2X Amazon's revenues, and plans for a $15B IPO
Alibaba Flexes Muscles Before IPO — Chinese E-Commerce Giant Speeds Toward $15 Billion Deal — Jack Ma still has the spartan apartment in the Chinese city of Hangzhou where the former English teach...
8 GB iPhone 5c now available in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Ireland and several others
After a brief period of downtime, the Apple Store website around the world has now gone back up. Aside from a bit of Mother's Day promotional advertising, there is no change to most regions.
Samsung launches website highlighting ‘meaningful’ design
In the midst of a major “copycat” lawsuit, Samsung has launched a site that highlights original design from the company. Emblazoned with the tagline “make it meaningful,” it's described as “a platfor...
The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted
When we think about the spectacular collapse of once untouchable Internet properties, companies like MySpace and Pets.com come to mind. The rise and fall of AOL Instant Messenger rivals them all.
Q&A with Zuckerberg about Facebook unbundling, anonymity, acquisitions, and innovation
Can Facebook Innovate? A Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg — For my column this week about Facebook's new approach to creating social apps, I spent some time talking to Mark E. Zuckerberg, the comp...
How the Lens Blur mode in Google's new Camera app simulates shallow depth of field
Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app — One of the biggest advantages of SLR cameras over camera phones is the ability to achieve shallow depth of field effects (also known as bokeh).
AT&T Threatens Boycott if TV Airwaves Auction Rules Aren't Changed
At least one of the largest wireless carriers in the U.S. is unhappy about the Federal Communications Commission's new proposed rules for an upcoming auction of TV airwaves, which would reserve some l...
Netgear adds BitTorrent Sync to its network-attached storage drives
Now this is smart: BitTorrent Inc. has teamed up with Netgear to take its P2P-powered Dropbox competitor BitTorrent Sync to the next level. Owners of a ReadyNAS device can now install apps for Sync d...
Google expected to post big revenue, but watch out for margins
While Google is widely expected to post an impressive quarter when it reports earnings after the bell on Wednesday, investors will want to keep a close eye on the company's operating margins.
Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC
Weev, aka Andrew Auernheimer, is free. The 29-year-old hacker, released from the Allenwood Federal Correctional Center in Pennsylvania last weekend, has spent the past few days celebrating a federal ...
Google Play Still Tops iOS App Store Downloads, And Now Narrowing Revenue Gap, Too
Android's position as the most dominant smartphone platform worldwide is also having an impact on mobile app download growth, and now, increasing revenue. Google's app marketplace, Google Play …
Grubwithus becomes Superb, a platform for discovering new places and which friends to share them with
Have you ever heard about a hot new restaurant far off the beaten path and wondered which of your friends would be willing to venture out and try it with you?
Google Says Buying Nest Bogged Down First-Quarter Earnings
It turns out buying a company for $3.2 billion can suck the wind out of even a $15.4-billion-in-revenue quarter. The Nest acquisition took a toll on Google expenses, explained Google CFO Patrick Pich...
Photo-Sharing App Frontback Comes To Android
Frontback just released the Android version of its popular photo-sharing app. Previously, the app was only available on iOS. But even with just the iPhone app, the app was downloaded one million tim...