Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy
When Steven P. Jobs led Apple, he created a core principle for the company's designers and engineers: stay fully focused on making great products. — That philosophy continues to guide Apple, even un...
To combat distracted driving, DoT seeks authority to regulate navigation aids, including apps
Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles — Getting directions on the road from Google Maps and other smartphone apps is a popular alternative to the expensive navigation aids included in some ca...
Chinese gov't reveals Microsoft's secret list of Android-killer patents
For more than three years now, Microsoft has held to the line that it has loads of patents that are infringed by Google's Android operating system. “Licensing is the solution,” wrote the company's he...
Nuance explores possible sale, met with Samsung and private-equity firms
Nuance Communications Explores Possible Sale — Speech-Recognition Software Maker's Customers Include Samsung, Apple — Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. has held discussi...
With an Amazon Smartphone, the Retailer Seeks a Tether to Consumers
Hold the phone: Amazon wants to burrow even deeper into your life. — The retailer is expected to introduce a smartphone on Wednesday at an event in Seattle, a long-rumored project that aims to close...
Apple Settles E-Books Pricing Case With States, Consumers
Apple Inc. (AAPL) reached a settlement with U.S. states and consumers seeking damages over the company's fixing of electronic book prices, avoiding a trial in which it faced as much as $840 million in...
On-Demand Grocery Startup Instacart Raises $44 Million From Andreessen Horowitz
On-demand grocery delivery startup Instacart wants to make its service available in every city in the United States. To make that happen, it's raised $44 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen...
One year on, Loon balloon flight times increase 10X, download speeds reach 5-20 Mbps with LTE
Google's Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later — Earlier this month, Mike Cassidy, a project director at Google's high-risk research division X, woke before dawn in the Northwest Brazilian sta...
SanDisk buys Fusion-io for $1.1 billion, beefs up data center push
Summary: With Fusion-io, SanDisk aims to double down on flash-based storage systems in data centers. — SanDisk doubled down on its strategy to target the enterprise and data centers with a $1.1 bill...
Microsoft announces Azure ML cloud-based machine-learning service, with July public preview
Microsoft readies public preview of cloud-based machine-learning service — Summary: Microsoft's new Azure ML cloud-based machine-learning service will be available as a public preview in July.
BlackBerry Launches BBM Protected For Confidential Instant Messaging
BlackBerry today began the rollout of its first eBBM suite product, which tailors its BBM instant messaging service to enterprise users. Today marks the debut of BBM Protected, FIPS 140-2 cryptograph...
Box Acquires YC-Backed Streem
This morning Box, a cloud-based file-management service, announced that it has acquired Streem, a Y Combinator-backed company that allows customers to stream files to their desktop environments. — B...
Google names first round of Glass at Work partners
Summary: Google chose broad mix of industry segments to develop enterprise applications for Glass, ranging from medical and media to sports and entertainment. — While Google Glass remains a subject ...
Facebook's iPad App Becomes An Entertainment Hub With Game Discovery And Trending Videos Sidebar
Over 70 percent of people who use Facebook for iPad played a Facebook-connected game in the past 90 days, so the company is helping them discover or re-engage with games through a new homepage sidebar...
The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions
On Feb. 10, Jason Fyk received a strange Facebook message. — “Bro.” — The message had been sent by someone who wasn't his friend on the social network, someone using the alias “Anthony. *” It was...
Dropbox Has Quietly Acquired Parastructure, A Big Data Startup In Stealth
Dropbox has been acquiring companies to help it expand the services that it can offer to consumers and enterprises beyond cloud storage. But the company — which has raised $1.1 billion and is among …
In SSD endurance test, no failures until 700TB of writes; Corsair Neutron GTX, Samsung 840 Pro, Kingston HyperX 3K go past 1PB
The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte — And then there were three — I feel for the subjects — of our SSD Endurance Experiment.
US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
The Worldview-3 satellite is set to launch in August — Sites like Google and Bing Maps will be able to use higher-quality satellite images, thanks to US government restrictions being lifted. — Com...
Unicode version 7.0 released: 2,834 new characters including 250 emoji
Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 — Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, adding 2,834 new characters. This latest version adds the new currency symbols for the Russian r...
Facebook Paper's New Trending Section Makes It A Better Softcore News Reader
Facebook Paper is pretty, but sluggish when it comes to news. Its human-curated sections take a while to ingest the latest world events and gossip. But today's 1.2 update adds a “Trending” …