Google's self-driving cars get smarter at handling city driving conditions, log 700K miles
The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving — Jaywalking pedestrians. Cars lurching out of hidden driveways. Double-parked delivery trucks blocking your lane and you...
With Microsoft Deal Done, Nokia Names Rajeev Suri CEO, $6.9 Billion in Buybacks, Dividends and Debt Cuts
Nokia late Monday said it was naming former networking unit head Rajeev Suri as its new chief executive. — With the sale of its flagship device business to Microsoft …
Xbox Originals launching in June on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and other Microsoft devices
Xbox Originals: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You — Starting this June, you'll have more reasons to love your Xbox: Xbox Originals - premium dramas, comedies, documentaries, animation, unscripted sho...
Skype makes group video calling free on Windows, Mac, and Xbox One; coming to all platforms ‘in the future’
Skype today announced it is making group video calling (GVC) available free of charge on Windows desktop, OS X, and the Xbox One. At the same time, the company is also promising …
Microsoft's first Nokia ad plays on its underdog status
25,000 Nokia employees are joining Microsoft today after the company acquired Nokia's devices and services unit last week. While many workers are tweeting their new employee badges in a series of sel...
Refreshed MacBook Airs with latest Haswell chips likely launching tomorrow
New MacBook Airs likely launching tomorrow — Apple is preparing to launch a refreshed line of MacBook Air laptops as soon as tomorrow, according to multiple sources. These sources say that shipment...
HP preparing to announce first Google-blessed touchscreen Android notebook
In a hidden video (embedded below) discovered on HP's website by Notebook Italia shows off HP's upcoming Slatebook 14. As the name implies, the machine comes with a 1080p 14″ touchscreen display.
Annual Profit Falls 52 Percent for Angry Birds Maker Rovio
LONDON - All is not well in the land of Angry Birds. — On Monday, Rovio, the Finnish gaming company behind the once-popular franchise, announced a more than 50 percent drop in its 2013 net profit, t...
FreedomPop to Sell First Apple Devices, Offering iPhone 5 With Its Free and Low-Cost Plans
Upstart mobile carrier FreedomPop is announcing this week its first support for the iPhone, offering a variety of free and low-cost plans in conjunction with Apple phones that work on Sprint's network...
Kantar: Windows Phone ‘Stutters’ Amid Android Price Competition, iPhone 5S Is Apple's Buffer
Last Friday, Microsoft finally took control as the new owner of Nokia's devices business, but it's coming into its new position as a mobile hardware maker with no less a challenge than Nokia has had f...
Farewell Nokia: The rise and fall of a mobile pioneer
Nokia was once a dominant force in the wireless world. CNET takes a look at its successes — and what went wrong. Nokia's headquarters in Espoo, Finland, is known as Nokia House, or NoHo, and is the ...
‘Anonymish’ App Secret Taps Into Android, Global Markets; UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand First Up
Secret - the iOS app that lets you share confessions, rumors, complaints and praise with your wider circle of friends without attaching your name to it- has captured the eye of early adopters in the U...
To appease regulators TWC transfers 1.4M subs to Charter, Comcast spins 2.5M into indy company
Comcast details plan to give up customers and create new cable company [Updated] — Comcast's February announcement of a planned $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable came …
AOL Says Spoofed Emails Appeared To Come From 2% Of Accounts, No Financial Info Affected
AOL just released more information about the email spoofing incident earlier this month. — In a blog post, AOL (which owns TechCrunch) wrote that its investigation is still ongoing …
After Comcast, Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon
Netflix just confirmed that it will pay Verizon for direct access through the carrier's network, allowing for improved streaming video for customers. According to a statement, “We have reached an int...
Samsung posts $8.2B profit; second straight quarterly drop
South Korean electronics giant posts an operating profit of $8.2 billion for the first quarter, a 3.3 percent decline from the year-ago period. — Samsung's Galaxy S4. — Samsung — Samsung reporte...
Supreme Court to rule on warrantless searches of electronic devices
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will take on the digital-age controversy over search and seizure of smartphones and other devices. In two cases coming before the court, warrantless searches of an electr...
Most websites patched Heartbleed, but tens of thousands of connected devices remain vulnerable
It's Crazy What Can Be Hacked Thanks to Heartbleed — Western Digital makes a tiny box where you can store all your photos and other digital stuff. It's called My Cloud, and you've probably seen the...
GitHub CEO apologizes for lack of transparency, details findings of independent investigator
Follow up to the investigation results — Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. — We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for th...
Samsung's Galaxy K Zoom smartphone packs a 20 megapixel camera and 10x zoom lens
Samsung made the leap into high-end camera smartphones when it launched the Galaxy S4 Zoom last year, and now it is adding to that range after it announced the Galaxy K Zoom, a smartphone that sports ...
Yahoo to Stream a Daily Concert From Live Nation
Ad-Supported Web Channel Is Part of Plan to Compete With YouTube — Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are unveiling plans to let couch potatoes watch live concerts every day, without a ti...
Microsoft Won't Brand Its Own Phones ‘Microsoft Mobile’ — Nor Use Nokia's Name For Long
Nor Use Nokia's Name For Long — Now that Nokiasoft is (un)officially a thing, following the completion on Friday of Microsoft's multi-billion dollar purchase of Nokia's devices division, the question...
Plastic HTC ‘M8 Ace’ aims at Galaxy S5 with same specs, lower price
HTC may have poked fun at its competitors' plastic flagship devices in the past, but it looks like the Taiwanese company will soon be offering one as well. And no, we're not talking about the Butterf...
IBM launches Cloud marketplace
Summary: The tech giant said the app exchange is a digital front door that opens up its in-house services portfolio, along with those of its partners, to enterprise clients. — The land of cloud mark...
Consolidation looms in business intelligence, as TIBCO buys Jaspersoft for $185M
Enterprise software vendor TIBCO has acquired Jaspersoft, an open source business intelligence company, for approximately $185 million. It's not an earth-shaking deal, but it could be a sign of thing...
Despite Big Ambitions, New York's Tech Scene Is Still Starting Up
Predicting that your city will be the next Silicon Valley is simple. But actually making it the next Silicon Valley is something else entirely — as New York is slowly finding out. — A few years ago...
In a world of me-first smart home gear, can smarthubs make them all play nice?
The SmartThings hub (left) and Revolv hub (right). — “Home automation” has become ho-hum. It's a catchall term describing the idea of a futuristic, connected home; what's essentially an array …