Security researchers say USB security is fundamentally broken; hard-to-detect malware in the firmware can take over Macs/PCs, no easy fix
Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken — Computer users pass around USB sticks like silicon business cards.
French telecom Iliad has made a $15 billion offer for T-Mobile US
France's Iliad Makes Bid for T-Mobile US — Bid Counters Earlier Offer From Sprint Corp. — French upstart telecommunications company Iliad SA has made an offer for T-Mobile US Inc., in a bold bid t...
C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence Computers
WASHINGTON — An internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency has found that its officers improperly penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing it...
eBay employee demographics: globally, 42% female; in US, 61% white, 24% Asian, 7% black, 5% Hispanic
Building A Stronger, Better, More Diverse eBay — Commerce is global, and so is eBay Inc. Every day, our eBay and PayPal platforms serve tens of millions of merchants and consumers in virtually every...
Apple's CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place
Since last year, Apple's been hard at work building out their own CDN and now those efforts are paying off. Recently, Apple's CDN has gone live in the U.S. and Europe and the company is now deliverin...
iFixit's Oculus Rift teardown finds Samsung display, 40 LEDs
The repair-guide website uncovers a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 display inside the second-generation virtual-reality headset prototype. — Inside the Oculus Rift DK2 prototype. — iFixit — If you're one...
NY judge, ruling against Microsoft, says US warrant can access email stored in Ireland
NEW YORK — A judge has ruled against Microsoft Corp., saying U.S. law enforcement can force the company to turn over emails it stores in Ireland. — Loretta Preska, a federal judge in New York …
Poorly Managed HealthCare.gov Construction Cost $840 Million, Watchdog Finds
Government Accountability Office Says Risks Remain Without Improved Oversight at Health Agency — The federal agency in charge of building the HealthCare.gov insurance website suffered from poor mana...
Launching an indie game on Xbox One cost one developer $5K, $4K in required Microsoft insurance and rating fees
Making A Shoestring Budget Game For The Xbox One — Just last month Happion Labs launched Sixty Second Shooter Prime for the Xbox One through their ID@Xbox program.
Timeful, The Khosla And Kleiner Backed Time Management App, Launches On iOS
For months now, there's been a stealthy buzz around a startup called Timeful. Attracting a nearly $7 million pre-launch Series A round from the likes of Khosla Ventures, Data Collective, and Kleiner ...
Wunderlist becomes a platform, aiming to be “the home of all the world's lists”
Wunderlist 3 is a faster, slicker, more collaboration-friendly iteration of the popular productivity app. But it's also the first step in a strategic shift for Berlin's 6Wunderkinder. — Wunderlist ...
Alibaba Invests $120M in Mobile Gaming Co. Kabam at Valuation More Than $1 Billion
Shazam Brings Always-On Music and TV Recognition to Mac With Free Menu Bar App
Music recognition service Shazam, which was one of the early App Store hits and has continued to see good success on mobile platforms, is now bringing its services to the desktop in the form of the fi...
Google Details Problems With Handling Right to Be Forgotten Requests
LONDON - Google says complying with Europe's so-called right to be forgotten ruling is getting complicated. — In a lengthy response to questions from the region's data regulators, the search giant …
NFL players to wear shoulder pad RFIDs for on-field stats tracking
The NBA isn't the only professional sports league in the States getting serious about accurate stats accounting. With some help from Zebra Technologies' location system, 17 NFL stadiums will use rece...
LinkedIn Beats The Street In Q2 On Sales Of $534M, EPS Of $0.51
With social networks Facebook and Twitter handily beating analyst estimates for Q2 earnings, LinkedIn today reported its Q2 results and showed that rising tides are lifting its boat, too. Revenue for...
Apple Stores to finally begin iPhone 5s display replacements on August 4th
Apple will finally begin offering iPhone 5s screen replacements in its official U.S. and Canada retail stores in the coming days, according to several sources. Apple Store Genius Bars are said to hav...
Twitter Acquires Password Security Startup Mitro, Open Sources Its Product
Twitter is acquiring a small password security startup called Mitro for its New York office. Mitro built a way that multiple people can share or control passwords to a single account.
Microsoft releases Office for iPad update with PDF exporting, presenter view, third party fonts, more
Earlier this week Microsoft introduced an updated version of its OneNote app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and today new versions of its Office for iPad suite have been released.
Samsung VP: two new smartphones coming within six months, one with a “large screen”, the other with “new materials”
Samsung to Launch New Smartphones as Profit Falls — One Model Will Have a Large Screen While the Other Will Be Built Using New Materials
Internet.Org's App With Free Access To Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Local Info Launches In Zambia
85% of the 5 billion people without Internet simply can't afford data plans. So Facebook's accessibility initiative Internet.org today launches its Android and web app for the developing world …
With Qi wireless charging, you'll soon be able to charge your device from a short distance
It's becoming more and more common to find mobile devices with wireless charging capability, either as a built-in feature or integrated into third-party cases. Progress has been somewhat hampered …
Palantir snaps up Propeller — its second deal this week
its second deal this week — Until this week, Palantir Technologies, a Palo Alto-based data analytics company, wasnt much of an acquirer. Despite having raised $896 million in venture capital, at a $...
Facebook's Slingshot introduces ‘reactions-to-reactions’, for photo, video, or text replies to reactions
Facebook Slingshot's First Update Makes It Conversational With Reactions To Reactions — Facebook's standalone photosharing app Slingshot is sidestepping its core …
Wikipedia goes fully native on iOS and now lets you edit articles too
As one of the biggest brands on the Web, Wikipedia needs little introduction. — The world's biggest online encyclopedia is available across a multitude of platforms, including desktop and mobile.
Xiaomi now world's fifth largest smartphone maker; Android captures record 85% market share in Q2
China's Xiaomi Becomes World's 5th Largest Smartphone Maker — Global smartphone sales are still growing, but the market's star performer in the last three months wasn't Apple or even Samsung.
Runtastic's $120 Orbit Fitness Tracker Prizes Function And Features Over Fashion
Runtastic is doing the reverse of what many startups are doing these days: it's going from being a software platform provider to becoming a hardware maker with the Runtastic Orbit fitness tracker.
IE 11 on Windows Phone will soon support non-standard web features akin to iOS and Android
Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1: Internet Explorer — Can Microsoft fix IE Mobile? — Microsoft this week is detailing “hundreds” of changes that it is making to Internet Explorer Mobile …
Indiegogo Goes Mobile With International Launch Of iOS App
Ever since Indiegogo raised that massive $40 million Series B this year, the crowdfunding platform has been laser-focused on building out its mobile presence. In fact, CEO Slava Rubin said in an inte...
eBay employee demographics: globally, 42% female; in US, 61% white, 24% Asian, 7% black, 5% Hispanic
Building A Stronger, Better, More Diverse eBay — Commerce is global, and so is eBay Inc. Every day, our eBay and PayPal platforms serve tens of millions of merchants and consumers in virtually every...
T-Mobile Adds 1.5 Million More Customers, Swings to Profit on Spectrum Sale
T-Mobile said Thursday that it added a further 1.5 million customers to its network in the second quarter, making this the fifth straight quarter of million-plus customer gains. — The company posted...
PlayStation Now game streaming service hits open beta today on PS4 in the US and Canada
Sony is launching a public beta for its PlayStation Now video game streaming initiative in the US and Canada today (July 31). — For now, the service will be available exclusively on the PlayStation ...
Lytro Illum review: an expensive, flawed, buggy glimpse of the future of photography
Lytro Illum review: this is the camera of the future — It's almost time to forget everything you ever knew about photography — Ten minutes into using the Lytro Illum, I'm throwing out everything I...
Google Will Add Ratings to Search-Results Ads So They Look More Like Amazon
Google is prodding merchants to provide more information to make its search results more effective-and more like Amazon. The question is whether merchants will play ball. — In a blog post Tuesday …
IBM snaps up Italian cloud security vendor CrossIdeas
Summary: IBM is adding more troops for its assault on the enterprise security market - this time with an Italian vendor giving it tools to handle segregation of duties. — Liam Tung — IBM has acqui...
Twitter transparency report: Account info requests up 46%, still no national security breakdown
Twitter has published its fifth transparency report, revealing that the number of requests it receives from different countries around the world is continuing to climb, up 46 percent since its last re...
Medical marijuana delivery service Eaze launches in SF, hoping to be the “Uber of pot”
Medical marijuana users link to delivery services with Eaze — Deliveries will be free for patients, with driver fees and Eaze paid by dispensaries in exchange for gaining new business.