At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another
There are two disciplines in which Silicon Valley entrepreneurs excel above almost everyone else. The first is making exorbitant amounts of money. The second is pretending they don't care about that...
UPS Store Computer Breach Put Customer Data at Risk
United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) said a breach of computer systems at UPS Store retail outlets may have exposed customers' personal and payment data at some locations this year. — Malware was found ...
Verizon Says It Has No Plans for Another App Store
Verizon threw cold water Wednesday on a report that it was in talks to set up another app store. — The Information reported that Verizon was talking with would-be partners about a marketplace design...
Hands-on with the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook: the same Samsung hardware with deep Nook integration
Hands-on with the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook — The Nook tablets were seriously under appreciated. And while Samsung certainly makes some nice devices, there's something a little sad about seeing …
Samsung to pay U.S. $2.3 million to settle False Claims Act charges
The American division of Korean electronics giant Samsung has agreed to pay the government $2.3 million to settle charges that it misled the United States about where some of its products were manufac...
Twitter details its anti-spam system BotMaker, claims it's reduced spam by 40%
Twitter details its anti-spam system, BotMaker — Twitter has developed a system called BotMaker to deal with its spam problem. Essentially, BotMaker scans messages before they're posted, after they...
VMware buys CloudVolumes for real-time desktop app delivery
Summary: Buying the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company enables VMware to build real-time application delivery across all three of its technology focus areas. — Virtualization powerhouse VMware announ...
Chain raises $9.5 million to build Bitcoin development platform
Chain today is launching as a startup that hopes to become the definitive development platform for Bitcoin, whether the ultimate application relates to financial services or to some other sort of dece...
IDC: Tablets with cellular voice capabilities are getting traction in Asia Pacific
Talking On Tablets On The Rise In Asia — The phone-sized tablet — aka the phablet — was born in Asia, so it's fitting that the region is now apparently driving a trend for talking on even larger sla...
Twitter to Remove Images of the Deceased Upon Families' Request
Twitter said on Tuesday it will remove images of deceased individuals at the request of family members, a move that comes a week after Robin Williams's daughter said she is quitting the platform after...
iOS 8 turns up evidence of another possible iPhone 6 resolution: a larger 828 x 1472
Early this year, we heard from a source that Apple had been testing multiple resolutions for the iPhone 6's larger display, including a resolution of 960 x 1704. As we outlined, the benefit of that r...
Samsung's first Nook tablet arrives at Barnes & Noble today for $179
Samsung is becoming Barnes & Noble's first partner to create a Nook-branded tablet today with the unveiling and release of the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. The name is a mouthful, but it basically means that t...
Hackers used Heartbleed vulnerability to exploit 4.5M patient records at CHS
CHS Hacked via Heartbleed Vulnerability — As many of you may have already been aware, a breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) affecting an estimated 4.5 million patients was recently revealed.
Google's driverless cars designed to exceed speed limit by up to 10mph for better safety
Look, no hands! Test driving a Google car — (Reuters) - The car stopped at stop signs. It glided around curves. It didn't lurch or jolt. The most remarkable thing about the drive was that it was...
Google Made 890 Improvements To Search Over The Past Year
In a Google+ post from Google head of search Amit Singhal, Google shares they have made “more than 890 improvements to Google Search last year alone.” — In 2009, Google told us they made between 350...