Amazon's Lab126 has been working on a 3D smartphone since 2009
Inside the Secretive R&D Lab Behind the Amazon Phone — Disclosure: Brad Stone is author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. The book is published by Little, Brown & Co., a di...
YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service
Starting internal tests of subscription service but faces accusation of ‘catastrophic error of judgement’ — YouTube has confirmed that it will begin blocking videos from independent labels that have...
AT&T to Exclusively Carry Amazon Smartphone
Amazon Expected to Unveil its Phone on Wednesday in Seattle — AT&T Inc. will be the exclusive carrier for Amazon.com Inc. 's new smartphone, which is expected to be unveiled on Wednesday, according ...
Democrats unveil legislation forcing the FCC to ban Internet fast lanes
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. gesturing during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) — Democratic lawmakers will unveil a pie...
UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents' Facebook and Google use
Britain's top counter-terrorism official has been forced to reveal a secret Government policy justifying the mass surveillance of every Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google user in the UK.
Oracle close to buying hospitality-industry software provider Micros Systems for more than $5B
Oracle Said to Near Deal to Buy Micros Systems — Oracle Corp. (ORCL) is nearing a deal to buy hospitality-industry software provider Micros Systems Inc. (MCRS) for more than $5 billion, people famil...
Facebook's Slingshot Challenges Snapchat With ‘Reply To Unlock’
Facebook wants to break the “1% Rule” of Internet culture that says a tiny fraction of users create the content for everyone else. So after a momentary leak last week, today Facebook officially launc...
Apple Is Happy to Sell You the Hachette Books Amazon Won't Stock
Amazon doesn't want to sell books from Hachette Book Group. — More for us, says Apple, which is taking advantage of the fight between the world's biggest bookstore and one of the world's biggest pub...
Nokia ‘paid millions to software blackmailers six years ago’
(Reuters) - Finnish telecoms equipment company Nokia paid several million euros to criminals who threatened to reveal the source code for part of an operating system used in its smartphones some six y...
eBay Launches “eBay Valet,” An iPhone App That Does The Selling For You
eBay today is expanding its lesser-known eBay Sell For Me service to mobile with the launch of a new app called eBay Valet, which promises to let eBay do the selling for you. That is, it takes every ...
Nest Brings Back The Protect At $99, But Waving Is Still Disabled
The Nest Protect is now available following its two-month hiatus after it was pulled for safety concerns. The smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector is now only $99, down from its $129 launch pr...
Nike finally introduces a Fuelband app for Android
Despite rumors of the Nike Fuelband's demise (and a cozy relationship with Apple), the sportswear maker has finally expanded it compatibility by releasing a sync app for Android. Just like the iOS co...
Why customized ads are so creepy, even when they miss their target
Why customized ads are so creepy, even when they miss their target — “What is it about my data that suggests I might be a good fit for an anorexia study?” That's the question my friend Jean asked m...
Microsoft cuts Surface Pro 2 prices by up to $200 ahead of June 20 Surface 3 availability
Microsoft trims Surface Pro 2 prices ahead of Surface Pro 3 availability — Summary: Microsoft is trimming between $100 and $200 off the price of its second-generation, Intel-based Surface Pro 2 tabl...
Hold the Phone! Now You Can Message Business Owners Directly Through Yelp
With more than 57 million local reviews contributed across 27 countries, there's already a boatload of info people can gather through Yelp on any local business they're thinking about trying.
Snapchat Launches Collaborative Timelines Based On Events
Last year, Snapchat took its first big iterative step with the launch of Stories, which let users string together all of their snaps from the latest 24 hours into a single, fluid narrative. The compa...
Oyster brings its ‘Netflix for ebooks’ subscription service to Android, Kindle Fire and Nook HD
Oyster, often referred to as “the Netflix of ebooks,” is now available for Android devices, Kindle Fire tablets and the Nook HD. It joins the company's existing iOS app …
Adobe delivers strong Q2 with 2.3 million Creative Cloud subscriptions
Summary: The creative software maker managed to beat estimates with growth fueled by accelerated cloud-subscription adoption. — Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen — Adobe reported its fiscal second quarte...
How ISIS, the militant group that recently seized Iraq's second-largest city, games Twitter
How ISIS Games Twitter — The advance of an army used to be marked by war drums. Now it's marked by volleys of tweets. — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Sunni militant group …
On the importance of schools fostering “computational thinking” at a young age
Is Coding the New Literacy? … Detail from “On the Mode of Communication of Cholera,” 1854 … Upending our notions of what it means to interface with computers could help democratize …
Hacker Hijacks Storage Devices, Mines $620,000 in Dogecoin
Dogecoin, for those who don't spend their time indulging in Internet meta-memes, may seem like harmless nerdery. But for one enterprising hacker, it's created a small fortune—at the price of annoying...
Following A Drop In Completed Jobs, Errands Marketplace TaskRabbit Shakes Up Its Business Model
Errands marketplace TaskRabbit is shaking things up today with a change to its business model. The company says it's shifting away from the auction model where contractors bid for tasks posted by end...
A Rare Peek Inside Amazon's Massive Wish-Fulfilling Machine
The first thing I saw when I walked into Amazon's Phoenix warehouse was a man riding on a giant tricycle. Behind him, yellow plastic tubs the size of office recycling bins whizzed by on a conveyor be...
TiVo co-founders bring their QPlay video app to Chromecast, sideline own hardware
Maybe building a dedicated video streaming box that doesn't even have a Netflix app wasn't such a good idea, after all: QPlay, the video startup founded by TiVo co-founders Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton ...
Amazon strikes back, launching speedy solid-state block storage one day after Google
If you're looking for more proof that Google's public cloud is a competitive threat to market leader Amazon Web Services, consider this. — Just a day after Google announced that it would back up its...
SoundCloud, with 300M users, focuses on monetization, considers licensing deals, pre-roll ads
How SoundCloud Changed Music Forever — Some of the best ideas are also the simplest. And there are few things more simple than SoundCloud, which in its seven year existence has sneakily become one ...
The history of Android
Android's home screen over the years. — Android has been with us in one form or another for more than six years. During that time, we've seen an absolutely breathtaking rate of change unlike any ot...
Yahoo the latest to disclose diversity: 62% men globally, and 50% white in US, more diverse than Google
Workforce Diversity at Yahoo — Here at Yahoo we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce. We're in the business of building products for hundreds …
Hold the Phone! Now You Can Message Business Owners Directly Through Yelp
With more than 57 million local reviews contributed across 27 countries, there's already a boatload of info people can gather through Yelp on any local business they're thinking about trying.
Parallels' new remote desktop apps let you control your PC like a phone
Remote desktop apps have an easier time working on tablets, where you have a lot of display area to work with, but they're frequently awkward on smartphones. Wouldn't it be nice if you could control ...
What the Theory of “Disruptive Innovation” Gets Wrong
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps—college students and new graduates—to do...
One Kings Lane, after raising $112M in January, is laying off between 75-100 people, or up to 20% of its staff
One Kings Lane Will Cut up to 20 Percent of Its Staff — Just six months after landing a big round of investment that valued One Kings Lane at $900 million …
Moto G 4G LTE now available directly from Motorola for $219
The Moto G continues to be one of the most popular devices world-wide. In fact, it is Motorola's most sold smartphone ever made! It came as no surprise that Motorola would release a worthy successor...
Department of Energy network ESnet is capable of cross-country data transfers at 91 Gbps
The Shadow Internet That's 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber — When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to Am...
SoundCloud, with 300M users, focuses on monetization, considers licensing deals, pre-roll ads
How SoundCloud Changed Music Forever — Some of the best ideas are also the simplest. And there are few things more simple than SoundCloud, which in its seven year existence has sneakily become one ...
Chinese Cloud Service Provider UCloud Raised US$50M in Series B to Expand to North America
Chinese Cloud service provider UCloud announces US$50 million in Series B funding led by Bertelsmann Asia Investments and Legend Capital, joined by existing investor DCM who participated …