Google to shut down Orkut on September 30, will create archive of all public communities
Tchau Orkut — Ten years ago, Orkut was Google's first foray into social networking. Built as a “20 percent” project, Orkut communities started conversations, and forged connections, that had never ...
Google Glass to be banned from all UK cinemas
If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywo...
Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini to hit retail in mid-July
Just like a new Galaxy S flagship is a given each year, so is a new iteration of the current Galaxy S' mini variant, a device that Samsung always hopes to sell not based on its feature list, but on th...
Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
Built for privacy, the Blackphone runs a beefed-up Android called PrivatOS. — Based on some recent experience, I'm of the opinion that smartphones are about as private as a gas station bathroom.
Apple announces iTunes U update with iPad Course Creation, Student Discussions & more
Screenshot showing new iTunes U “Student Discussions” feature — Apple today announced an update to its iTunes U educational app that includes a number of new features for iPad including course creat...
More details on Microsoft's desktop-focused Windows ‘Threshold’ release; public preview expected in fall 2014, release in spring 2015
Windows ‘Threshold’: More on Microsoft's plan to win over Windows 7 users — Summary: One of Microsoft's main goals with 'Threshold …
Some LA schools choosing between six different laptops for students after botched iPad rollout
LAUSD shifts gears on technology for students — Los Angeles school district officials have allowed a group of high schools to choose from among six different laptop computers for their students …
Twitter Scoops Up AdTech Firm Tap Commerce for Around $100 Million
Twitter is in the process of acquiring Tap Commerce, a New York-based mobile advertising technology firm, according to sources familiar with the situation. The deal is expected to be announced later ...
“Buy Now” Buttons Start Appearing in Tweets. Is Twitter Shopping Finally Here?
Two things stand out about the sneakers pictured above in a screenshot from Twitter. First, their list price is a cool $170 million (though we imagine that's a glitch). — Second, there's a “Buy now...
New N.S.A. Chief Calls Damage From Snowden Leaks Manageable
FORT MEADE, Md. — The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance techniques revealed by...
Apple Releases iOS 7.1.2 With Mail Fixes, iBeacon Improvements
Apple today released iOS 7.1.2 to the public, more than two months after releasing iOS 7.1.1. iOS 7.1.2 is a minor update that focuses primarily on bug fixes and security improvements, repairing an em...
Silk Road auction: 45 bidders, 63 total bids; SecondMarket was outbid on all blocks
Bitcoin Price Surges as Silk Road Auction Spurs Investor Interest — The US Marshals Service (USMS) has begun to inform participating investors as to the official results of its 27th June auction …
Fire TV's advanced streaming and prediction feature can consume 80GB a day
The Secret Little Problem With Amazon's Fire TV — I got a little nervous that something was wrong when I go a notice from my Internet service provider, Cox Cable, saying that I had hit my monthly do...
Supreme Court Won't Hear Google's Street View Appeal
Search Giant Tried to Challenge Lower Court Ruling Saying It Violated Wiretap Law — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it wouldn't consider Google Inc. 's challenge to a class-action...
Apple rolls out two-step verification for iCloud.com Web apps
Apple appears to be testing out a new implementation of its two-factor Apple ID authentication system with iCloud.com, requiring users who have the additional layer of security enabled to enter a spec...
Facebook Added ‘Research’ To User Agreement 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study
Unless you've spent the last couple of days in a Faraday pouch under a rock, you've heard about Facebook's controversial ‘emotion manipulation’ study. Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer ran an exper...
Ouya now selling 12-month pass to 800 games for $59.99
Ouya launched a limited deal today, the All-Access Pass, which gives customers 12 months' worth of access to almost all games on the platform for $59.99. — According to its listing on the Ouya Shop,...
Bulk or targeted? Foreign or domestic? This handy diagram plots the answer for the NSA programs revealed this past year
The NSA Revelations All in One Chart — This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year according to whether they are bulk or targeted …
Bing Ups Its Twitter Game: Rolls Out Hashtag & Twitter Handle Search Features
Starting this week, Bing users are going to see even more Twitter content in search results. — As a result of an exclusive partnership between the two companies that started in 2009, tweets have bee...
Tinder's former marketing VP Whitney Wolfe sues company for sexual discrimination, claims co-founder title removed
Tinder has a date with sexual discrimination suit — Dating app Tinder has been hit with a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by its former vice president of marketing.
Japanese E-Commerce Giant Rakuten Launches $100M Global Investment Fund
June is barely over, but Rakuten has already had a busy year. In addition to purchasing messaging app Viber for $900 million, the Japanese consumer Internet conglomerate also made investments in seve...
Millions of dynamic DNS users suffer after Microsoft seizes No-IP domains
Legitimate users caught in legal fire designed to take down botnets. — Millions of legitimate servers that rely on dynamic domain name services from No-IP.com suffered outages on Monday after Micros...
Twitter Rolls Out App Install And Engagement Ads, And New Click Pricing, Globally
Social networking platform Twitter says its MoPub ad network now reaches more than 1 billion iOS and Android users every month, and so today it is making its latest move to build out that mobile adver...
Active malware operation let attackers sabotage US energy industry
Researchers have uncovered a malware campaign that gave attackers the ability to sabotage the operations of energy grid owners, electricity generation firms, petroleum pipelines, and industrial equipm...
MapR Raises $110 Million in Round Led by Google Capital
There's been another big round of funding for a player in the steadily growing world of Hadoop, the open-source big data technology. — MapR announced this morning that it had raised $110 million in ...
Johnson & Johnson head of IP Philip Johnson, staunch opponent of reform, expected to be next US Patent and Trademark Office director
Staunch opponent of reform tapped to head US Patent Office — Big pharma killed the patent bill, and now a favorite son will head the USPTO.
CoreOS Raises $8M Series A Round, Launches Managed Linux As A Service
CoreOS, a Linux distribution optimized for very large server deployments, today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with follow-on ...
Automakers incrementally approach self-driving cars, see dangers to Google's eagerness
Google, Detroit diverge on road map for self-driving cars — (Reuters) - In 2012, a small team of Google Inc engineers and business staffers met with several of the world's largest car makers …
Salesforce names Autodesk's Mark Hawkins as new CFO
Salesforce.com Taps Autodesk Veteran As New CFO, Says Market's Still Healthy For Cloud Stocks — Salesforce.com's found its new CFO to replace retiring executive Graham Smith, and the CRM giant's sti...
Hewlett-Packard and shareholders reach settlement in suit over Autonomy deal
PALO ALTO — In a victory for Hewlett-Packard, the tech giant said Monday it has tentatively reached a settlement in a federal shareholder lawsuit over its ill-fated purchase of British software compan...
Intel, Nvidia struggle to make auto industry inroads due to safety and reliability standards
Intel Chases Sales on Silicon Road to Driverless Cars — Intel Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and Nvidia Corp. — pioneers in the production of chips for computers and phones — are finding it harder to make inr...