iPhone 6 with larger, sharper 1704 x 960 resolution screen in testing
Apple is preparing to release a new iPhone with a larger screen later this year, and while multiple reports have indicated that the screen will be larger, the exact dimensions of the screen and its re...
Greenwald expands on NSA reporting with new book ‘No Place to Hide’ and 50+ new documents
Glenn Greenwald's Pulse-Pounding Tale of Breaking the Snowden Leaks — In June 2013, Edward Snowden was sitting in his room at the Mira hotel in Hong Kong, watching the world react …
Firefox's adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart
I understand the pressure to support commercial video - but the browser makers can do more to defend free and open software — Future versions of the open-source Firefox browser will include closed-s...
Cisco general counsel: US Government has overreached, and should not interfere with the lawful delivery of our products
Internet Security Necessary for Global Technology Economy — Today's security challenges are real and significant. We want governments to detect and disrupt terrorist networks …
Comcast plans data caps for all customers in 5 years, could be 500GB
A Comcast executive said he expects the company will roll out “usage-based billing”—what most people call “data caps”—to all of its customers within five years. — Speaking with investors today (tran...
Flappy Bird to Return to the App Store in August, Will Be Multiplayer and ‘Less Addictive’
Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen today announced plans to return Flappy Bird to the App Store in August in a new interview with CNBC's Kelly Evans. According to Nguyen, the new version of Flappy Bird ...
Tracing the collapse of the ‘integral’ Kinect, in Microsoft's own words
The Xbox One was revealed one year ago this month and, in that twelve month period, Microsoft has struggled to define just what the console is. — From the disastrous reveal, overshadowed by question...
Google promises to release minority hiring figures, as activists protest outside shareholder meeting
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Prodded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Google said Wednesday that it will reverse a long-held stance and reveal publicly how many minority workers are employed by the giant Internet compan...
Nextdoor CEO and former Epinions chief Nirav Tolia charged with felony hit-and-run after crash on US 101 that left a woman injured
Police-friendly tech CEO charged with hit-and-run — The CEO of Nextdoor, a social network designed to help neighbors connect with each other and police …
Facebook For iOS Tries Popping Up Cards Of Related Content To Browse After You Post
Facebook is taking a swing at suggesting contextual content to keep you surfing after you share. A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say you're at …
Research project Cider brings iOS apps to Android devices
Six PhD students at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science have developed Cider, an OS compatibility architecture capable of running iOS apps on Android. Rather than using a strict virt...
Acxiom snaps up LiveRamp and its data onboarding smarts for $310M
Acxiom is not some shiny Silicon Valley startup. In fact, it's over 40 years old. The company, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, also happens to be a pioneer in collecting data — and converting that d...
Panic to offer developer tool Coda 2.5 only from their website, to bypass sandboxing hurdles imposed by the Mac App Store
Coda 2.5 and the Mac App Store — Over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about Coda and Sandboxing. — It detailed a thorough list of changes we'd be making to Coda …
Switching from iPhone to Android loses incoming iMessages, senders still get delivery receipt
iMessage purgatory — I recently switched from an iPhone to Android, and discovered shortly thereafter that my phone number was still associated with iMessage, meaning that any time someone …
SaaS company valuations should be based on customer acquisition cost and lifetime value, not revenue and EPS
Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong — Tune into any cable network stock market channel and the airwaves resonate with one consistent theme: SaaS companies are simply too expensive.
Stealth startup alert: Skype co-founder ventures into health and wearables with Project Florida
Skype's co-founder Janus Friis is looking to take on Fitbit with a new data-heavy health and wellness-focused wearable device, and he's assembled a high-profile team to do so …
Consumer Watchdog objects to Eric Schmidt's appointment to NY's “Smart Schools” advisory group, citing “unlawful conflicts of interest”
Eric Schmidt Has an Interest. Is It a Conflict? — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York last month appointed a three-person commission …
Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant
Servers, routers get “beacons” implanted at secret locations by NSA's TAO team. — A document included in the trove of National Security Agency files released with Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to ...
iPhone market share in Japan is 36.6% in year ending March, up from 25.5% a year earlier
Apple Boosts Japanese Market Share After NTT Docomo Sells IPhone — Apple Inc. (AAPL) boosted its share of the Japan mobile-phone market to more than a third after the country's largest wireless carr...
The Economics of a Small VC Fund
Two years ago I started a fund. For the fund to be viable, it had to be at least $5 million, but somewhere in the neighborhood of $8-10 million would have been perfect. Thankfully, that's what I rai...
Surface Pro 3 might join Microsoft's Surface mini unveiling next week
Microsoft is holding a Surface press event in New York City next week, but the company may have accidentally revealed one of the announcements. In a support article published yesterday, Microsoft say...
Research study classifies the many reasons for why people favorite tweets
Why We Favorite Tweets, According To Science — An ‘ official ’ taxonomy of faving behaviors. — Sometime around 2013, Twitter-obsessives became fixated on favoriting. It started with the evolution...
Good news for privacy: Fewer servers sending e-mail naked, Facebook finds
Server-to-server e-mail encryption using the STARTTLS protocol has reached an important tipping point that hardens the majority of messages Facebook sends its users against wholesale snooping by well-...
Apple's ‘convoluted and unclear’ iCloud agreements break Norwegian law, says watchdog
Summary: Norway's Consumer Council has filed a complaint about iCloud 8,600 word EULA. — The Norwegian Consumer Council has filed a complaint over the terms and conditions of Apple's iCloud service ...
Samsung offers ‘deep apology’ and compensation to workers who've contracted incurable diseases
Recent documentary uncovered 56 cases of leukemia — South Korean electronics giant Samsung has officially apologized over the illnesses and deaths of some of its factory workers.
Sony Sinks to $1.3B Quarterly Loss on PC Expenses
Sony Corp. sank to a 138 billion yen ($1.3 billion) quarterly loss, hit by costs from selling its personal computer business and is forecasting more red ink as it struggles to execute a long-promised ...
Windows Store updated with persistent navigation bar, multiple featured titles, and shared app identities
Microsoft today updated the Windows Store, which ships on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 devices, with enhancements “that address customer feedback and make it a lot easier to find the apps you want.”
New Zealand requires network operators to register with cops, give spies oversight of their network ops
Juha writes, “When the rest of the world decides to scrutinise and dial down mass surveillance of Internet users, New Zealand does the opposite. From now on, network operators …