Edward Snowden is extensively interviewed in Moscow by NSA whistleblower James Bamford
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story — I am staying at the Hotel Metropol, a whimsical sand-colored monument to pre-revolutionary art nouveau. Built during the time of Czar Nicholas II …
T-Mobile to throttle customers who use unlimited LTE data for torrents/p2p
In an internal memo to staff, it's been revealed that T-Mobile is going to clamp down on users taking advantage of their unlimited 4G/LTE plans for peer-to-peer file sharing and other misuse of their ...
Apple bans use of benzene and n-hexane during the final assembly of iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macs, and various accessories
Apple bans use of 2 chemicals in iPhone assembly — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is banning the use of two potentially hazardous chemicals during the final assembly …
Michael J Fox Foundation and Intel using big data and wearable sensors to track Parkinson's
Michael J Fox Foundation tests sensors to track Parkinson's — Michael J Fox's charity backed the study, but he is not personally involved in the tests — The Michael J Fox Foundation …
Microsoft updates Bing's conversational understanding to let you ask follow-up questions, just like Cortana
Microsoft today updated Bing with a very interesting new feature that builds on its investments in entity and conversational understanding. In short, you can now ask follow-up questions that referenc...
Comcast and Time Warner pay total of $132K to sponsor dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Clyburn
Comcast, Time Warner Cable help honor Mignon Clyburn amid merger review — Comcast and Time Warner Cable are sponsoring a dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn at a time when the agency …
After China smartphone success, Lenovo plans leap forward overseas
(Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group said first-quarter profit jumped 23 percent, beating estimates, as a surge in smartphone sales showed how quickly the world's biggest personal computer maker is transf...
Cisco cutting 8% of workforce, or 6,000 jobs, in restructuring plan
Cisco is reporting EPS of $0.55 ex-items on revenue of $12.36 billion, with CNBC's Josh Lipton. — Cisco Systems delivered quarterly earnings and revenue that surpassed analysts' expectations on Wedn...
Facebook launches cross-device reporting for ads, lets marketers track users across mobile apps and the Web
Facebook today launched a new feature for advertisers: cross-device reporting for ads. In short, marketers can now see where users saw an ad and where they converted, across mobile apps and the Web.
Intel pays $650 million to buy networking business from Avago to boost new markets
As the chipmaker works to expand beyond its core PC market, Intel said the networking business and its employees will help expand its product portfolio. (Oregonian file photo)
Intuit Acquires ItDuzzit, An IFTTT-Style Service For Businesses To Connect Cloud Apps
More acquisitions for Intuit as it continues to build out its cloud services platform for small and medium businesses. It has bought itDuzzit — a Chicago-based startup that provides tools for busines...
Amazon makes an undisclosed investment in cloud services company Acquia
Amazon has made a rare investment in Acquia, a Burlington, Mass.-based digital marketing company that operates on Amazon's cloud services. The undisclosed investment piggybacks on a $50 million round...
Amazon introduces its $10 mobile card reader, Local Register, and undercuts Square and PayPal transaction fees
Amazon undercuts Square and PayPal with its own mobile card reader — Square's grand plan to democratize credit card payments has inspired a clutch of imitators, the latest of which is Amazon.
Samsung launches Galaxy Alpha, 4.7 inch, metal frame, octa-core, $689 off-contract, arrives September
Samsung Galaxy Alpha is now official: metal-made and the thinnest Galaxy yet — After months of endless leaks, rumors and speculations, the Samsung Galaxy Alpha has finally gone official.
WeChat climbs to 438 million monthly active users, closing in on WhatsApp's 500 million
Tencent published its earnings today for the second quarter of 2014, revealing a new milestone for its WeChat messaging app: it has risen to 438 million monthly active users, up from 396 million the p...
Internet Touches Half Million Routes: Outages Possible Next Week
There was minor consternation in Internet engineering circles today, as the number of IPv4 networks worldwide briefly touched another magic “power of 2″ size limit. As it turns out, 512K (524,288 to ...
Taxi hailing app co GetTaxi raises $150m
The company will expand services to European cities beyond its existing operations in London, Moscow and St. Petersburg. — Taxi hailing app company GetTaxi has raised $150 million in a huge financin...
Polaroid Cube is a tiny camera that records 1080p video and is ultra rugged
Polaroid has launched a new camera that can fit into your pocket and shoot full 1080p HD video. It can even withstand a tumble and some water. Originally unveiled at CES 2014, the new Polaroid Cube ...
Lookout Lands $150M To Bring Mobile Security Product To Enterprise
Lookout, a mobile security product that to this point has been mostly geared towards consumers, announced today they had snagged $150M in Series F funding to begin focusing on enterprise customers.
Messaging company Line's new photo app is dedicated to taking the perfect selfie
Japanese messaging giant Line is pushing hard to associate itself with the selfie. It introduced a selfie-stickers app (!), has polled Europeans on their “selfie addiction,” and now is taking things ...
Facebook Engineers Kill iOS Bug, Reduce Crash Rate by 50%
Facebook engineers have solved a long-term mobile bugging issue in iOS, reducing its crash rate by more than 50 percent. According to the company's engineering blog, one of mobile's top crashes was i...
Hukkster's closure could have been prevented with a deal between Winklevoss and debtholders
Exclusive: A Standoff Between The Winklevoss Twins And Debtholders Killed Hukkster — Hukkster, the discount-tracking app backed by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, was dying but managed to find a savio...
Shift Is Developing A Debit Card That Lets You Spend Digital Currency, Loyalty Points And Regular Money
In the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in the world, 100 people are testing out a debit card that lets them pay with bitcoin and ripple, and, in the future, regular money and loyalty points.
Instagram appoints Facebook's James Quarles as Global Head of Business and Brand Development
Instagram Hires New Ad Chief — Instagram is ready to make some money. — Facebook Regional Director James Quarles has been tapped as Instagram's new Global Head of Business and Brand Development, a...
P2P Bitcoin Lending Platform Bitbond Receives €200,000 Seed Funding
Peer-to-peer bitcoin lending company Bitbond has secured €200,000 in seed money during a round led by early-stage investment firm Point Nine Capital. — The funding is meant to help Bitbond broaden i...
Errata prompts Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs
The TSX instructions built into Intel's Haswell CPU cores haven't become widely used by everyday software just yet, but they promise to make certain types of multithreaded applications run much faster...