Why iPad plateaued: tablets are eroding the PC market, but the smartphone is the transformative new category
iPads and tablet growth — Apple's revenue has pretty much stopped growing. This chart shows the quarterly revenue the company has reported - a series of ever larger spikes upward around …
Several key FCC staffers recently worked for ISPs who would benefit from net neutrality defeat
Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet — A tombstone for Internet freedom. Photo via Flickr user DonkeyHotey — The open Internet may soon becom...
Comixology removes in-app purchases to avoid paying fees to Apple
It's about to get a bit more difficult to buy comic books from a mobile device. Comixology is replacing its iOS app today with a new version that removes the ability to purchase comics. The new app ...
RadiumOne's All-Male Board Is Now Deciding Whether (or Not) to Dump CEO Over Domestic Violence Conviction
According to numerous sources, the board of RadiumOne is deciding whether or not to remove CEO Gurbaskh Chahal from his job, after he was convicted of two misdemeanors for domestic violence and batter...
Low-level federal judges balking at law enforcement requests for electronic evidence
Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive personal data, declaring the demands overly broad a...
Rumor: ‘Ok Google Everywhere,’ Modular Actions, New Navigation Buttons Coming To Android
We've recently seen plenty of rumors related to Google's future plans for its Search app, from automatically remembering where you parked to reminding you of things when you're with another person …
The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback
One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google's project managers. All of them. — It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the midd...
Danish government releases geographic data by way of 1:1 Minecraft map
Denmark opened its data doors for a full nationwide Minecraft recreation. Now we can finally estimate how well Copenhagen's Rundetårn observatory, seen here, could withstand a creeper invasion.
Apple and Samsung will go into overtime to address key patent issue in court
Apple and Samsung will get a little more time in court than originally planned, after a California judge said both sides should be able to present additional evidence to clarify the wording associated...
US built Twitter-like services for Cuba, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and dozens more countries
U.S. Says It Built Digital Programs Abroad With an Eye to Politics — WASHINGTON — The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba …
How Steve Marquess and Stephen Henson became the overworked, underpaid stewards of OpenSSL, which is finally staffing up post-Heartbleed
The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve — The Heartbleed bug put the spotlight on OpenSSL, the security toolkit used …
Former Apple engineer recalls early iPhone development, which resembled a startup
An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story — When Francisco Tolmasky was just 20 years old and started working for Apple, he took on a challenging task: to create a rich mobile web ...
Inside DarkMarket, a prototype online black market that resists police seizure via decentralization
Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize — The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site's lucrative drug trad...