Apple acknowledges iMessage issue, says bug fix coming in future software update
Apple's iMessage Issue Goes From Bad to Worse With Server Glitch — Apple's iMessage system is a model of convenience when connecting between iPhones. But trying to leave the ecosystem is the very d...
Samsung is making a VR headset for its phones and tablets
Samsung is known for its ubiquitous Galaxy smartphones and tablets, popular smart televisions and, most recently, smart watches. The Korean consumer electronics giant is about to enter another major ...
House of Representatives passes ‘gutted’ NSA surveillance reform
Privacy watchdogs hope Senate will roll back amendments to USA Freedom Act — The USA Freedom Act, a bill meant to end NSA surveillance of phone records, has passed the House of Representatives.
Facebook product director rants about media; media respond by noting Facebook's influence
Facebook product director furious at Facebook's effect on news — Mike Hudack — who, importantly, is Director of Product at Facebook — has a little rant about the state of the media and his view …
How IBM is struggling as a late entrant to the cloud era and is unlikely to deliver high margins
The Trouble With IBM — In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA. The spy agency was collecting so much information, its compute...
T-Mobile launches VoLTE in its own backyard w/ support for LG G Flex, Galaxy Note 3, & Galaxy Light
Following announcements earlier this month from both AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile announced today it's introducing Voice over LTE support starting with Seattle.
HP Shares Fall on Light Results; Plans to Cut up to 16,000 More Jobs
Computing giant Hewlett-Packard just reported results for its second fiscal quarter about 20 minutes earlier than scheduled, and the press release appears to be incomplete. They're more or less in li...
The iPad's next killer app: Osmo connects iOS kids' games with the real world
“Everything we are doing here is magic.” I'm not usually someone who embraces Silicon Valley's tendency to paint every little product iteration as magical and revolutionary. But when Tangible Play c...
Facebook Stops Irresponsibly Defaulting Privacy Of New Users' Posts To “Public”, Changes To “Friends”
After years of putting new users at risk of oversharing by defaulting the visibility of their status updates and photos to public, Facebook is switching the default to “friends”.
Google Adds “Okay Google” Voice Search For All Chrome Users
Maybe you already talk to your computer but now there's even more reason to - Google has just released the latest version of Chrome, which includes “Okay Google” triggered voice searches that work aut...
Any.Do brings its popular task management app to the web
Any.Do is finally bringing its popular to-do app experience to the web. Today the company is launching its first web app, a project that Any.Do's team admits has been the most requested feature among...
HP drops $100 quad-core Android tablet into US market
Hewlett-Packard has undercut its $150 Android Slate 7 with a $100 tablet. And it's quad-core, to boot. — $100 gets you a quad-core HP 7 Plus tablet. — Hewlett-Packard — Quad-core doesn't get mu...
Uber close to raising a new round of nearly $500M, valuing the company at over $12B
Uber Inc. Talking With Several Fund Managers to Raise About $500 Million — Drivers-for-Hire App Firm Seeking Investment Which Could Value Company at Over $12 Billion
On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer
MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it's attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely h...
Smart, Versatile Surface Pro 3 Can Do It All — Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse
Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse — a) Cassandra. Saddled with the gift of perfect prophecy, and the curse of never being believed. — b) Sisyphus. Condemned to rolling a huge boulder up a hill,...
One-time Evernote rival Springpad to close its doors
Springpad, a productivity app that struggled to stand out from similar offerings from Evernote and Pinterest, is planning to close its doors, The Verge has learned. The six-year-old Boston company, w...
Storehouse Raises $7M From Sherpa And Others To Spread Its Story Creation Tool Beyond The iPad
Storehouse is a company we've written about a bit before. It's a beautifully constructed iPad app that lets you build stories on the fly from text, video and images.
Apple to occupy seven-building Sunnyvale campus
SUNNYVALE — Apple has agreed to lease a seven-building campus in Sunnyvale where the tech giant could move about 1,450 workers, according to city documents and commercial property sources. — The dea...
Led by Apple Inc. iPhone, smartphones now account for 87 percent of U.S. handsets
New research by Counterpoint indicates that 87 percent of Americans upgraded to smartphones by the end of March, with Apple remaining the top vendor. — Counterpoint's Market Monitor quarterly tracke...
Google Fiber: we don't charge for peering, don't have fast lanes
Google used its Google Fiber internet access business Wednesday to chime in on the continuing debate around peering and internet fast lanes, and guess what: the company doesn't use either.
Critical Internet Explorer zero-day exploit detailed after Microsoft fails to patch it
An older version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has an unpatched software flaw that could allow rogue code to run on a computer, the second such flaw found in a month.
Samsung Music will close its doors on July 1
Saying bye bye to bloatware … A Samsung executive had already warned us that the Korean firm may close its content hubs, and that's exactly what's happening as Samsung Music (aka Music Hub) will shut ...
Microsoft taps partners to sell Azure and take on Amazon in cloud
Microsoft has a big channel and soon it will arm them with Azure — Network World - Microsoft distributors will soon be able to resell the company's Azure cloud IaaS, Microsoft announced today in a b...
Codecademy translates its ‘learn to code’ site into three new languages and readies London office
Codecademy is starting to think global. The New York-based startup has translated its popular learn-to-code platform into three new languages today and formalized partnerships in five countries.
Indian Ecommerce Giant Flipkart Buys Fashion E-tailer Myntra To Fight Amazon's Growth
India's biggest e-commerce company, Flipkart, is acquiring fast growing online fashion retailer Myntra, the two companies confirmed today. — The pair share two investors, Tiger Global Management and...
The Intercept's Micah Lee releases OnionShare, a free tool for anonymous file-sharing over Tor
Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously — When Glenn Greenwald discovered last year that some of the NSA documents he'd received from Edward Snowden had been corrupted...
Weibo Drops 5% After Reporting In-Line Q1 Revenues Of $67.5M, Better-Than-Expected $0.03 Loss Per Share
This afternoon Weibo reported the financial results of its first quarter, including revenue of $67.5 and non-GAAP earnings per share of -$0.03. The market had expected the company …
JD.com Raises $1.78 Billion, Pricing IPO Above Range
JD.com Inc., the Chinese online retailer whose business model is similar to Amazon.com Inc.'s, raised $1.78 billion in its U.S. initial public offering after pricing the shares above the marketed rang...