Apple developing iOS 8.1, 8.2, & 8.3 in shift for 2015 launches
Starting with iOS 5 in 2011, Apple has released a major new iOS version each fall and a notable follow-up update early in the following year. For example, iOS 6 launched in September 2012 and was upd...
Retina iMacs with OS X Yosemite in late testing within Apple, could launch soon
A new line of iMacs with ultra high-resolution Retina Displays is in late testing stages within Apple, according to our sources who have used the future desktop computer. While the machine will sport...
CloudFlare launches Universal SSL for free, doubling the number of encrypted websites to 4M
Introducing Universal SSL — The team at CloudFlare is excited to announce the release of Universal SSL™. Beginning today, we will support SSL connections to every CloudFlare customer …
Gray market for iPhones in China dries up, driving iPhone 6 price down from $1960 to $1060
Glum Sign for Apple in China: Smuggled iPhones Go Begging — HONG KONG — When Apple's latest iPhones went on sale this month in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, among the hip urbanites …
Bug in iOS 8's “Reset All Settings” appears to be erasing all iWork documents in iCloud Drive
Bug in iOS 8's ‘Reset All Settings’ Option Also Erases iCloud Drive Documents — It appears that there may be a serious bug with the “Reset All Settings” option in iOS 8 …
Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case
In the music industry's second big legal victory in a week, a federal judge in New York ruled on Monday that Grooveshark, an online music service long vilified by the major record companies, infringed...
Apple releases patch for Shellshock vulnerability for OS X Mavericks, Lion, and Mountain Lion
Apple releases OS X bash update 1.0 addressing Shellshock vulnerability — Apple has just released a new download for users on OS X Mavericks to address the recently-discovered “Shellshock” bug.
CEO of StealthGenie arrested on charges of designing spyware app for stalkers
Spyware executive arrested, allegedly marketed mobile app for “stalkers” — The chief executive officer of a mobile spyware maker was arrested over the weekend, charged with allegedly illegally marke...
HP adds to its Windows Stream line, with laptops from $200, tablets from $100, available November
Hewlett-Packard reveals HP Stream series of skinny laptops and tablets — Hewlett-Packard is stretching the limits of design with the announcement today of the colorful and thin HP Stream series of W...
In Threshold, Microsoft will introduce new methods for building, testing, and updating Windows
Why Microsoft's engineering changes will be the real Windows 9 (Threshold) story — Summary: Microsoft is building, testing and updating Windows in a very different way, starting with Windows Thresho...
Beats files lawsuit against Steve Lamar for claiming co-founder status
Apple Suing Headphones Entrepreneur for Claiming to Be a Beats Co-Founder — Steve Lamar taken to court over what he's been tweeting — The story of how Beats Electronics was founded just got more i...
FireEye observes significant amount of malicious traffic leveraging Shellshock bug in Bash, suspects this is a dry run before a potentially larger-scale attack
Shellshock in the Wild — Michael Lin, James Bennett and David Bianco — The exploitation of the BASH bug, now widely referred to as “Shellshock”, is in full swing.
Despite several published reports, the European Commission is not fining or even accusing Apple of anything
The European Commission Is Not About To Fine Apple; Nor Even To Accuse The Company Of Anything — Several newspapers seem to have got themselves into a bit of a tizzy …
Project Ara to use modified Android L, allowing all but CPU, display modules to be hot-swapped
PROJECT ARA NEWS — Paul Eremenko recently announced interesting news on Project Ara. The most significant concerns its market launch in early 2015. The first fully functional prototype …
Apple Rejects Launcher, The App That Lets You Launch Other Apps From iOS 8 Notification Center
Apple doesn't care for apps that let you launch other apps directly from the Notification Center, and has pulled one of the first apps to take advantage of this new functionality now available in iOS ...
Microsoft to open flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan sometime in 2015
Microsoft to Open Fifth Avenue Store — Flagship Store to Take Over Fendi Space — Microsoft Corp.'s first Manhattan flagship store is coming to Fifth Avenue. — The software company confirmed …
San Francisco-based personal finance service Credit Karma raises $75M at a valuation over $1B
Credit Karma Tops $1 Billion Valuation For Personal-Finance Tools — Hoping to do for personal finance what Expedia and other sites did for travel, Credit Karma Inc. has raised $75 million …
Facebook Will Use Facebook Data to Sell Ads on Sites That Aren't Facebook
Investors and analysts spent years clamoring for Facebook to start up an ad network, and earlier this year it obliged them. — And now Facebook is rolling out another one. — Caveat — this isn't an ...
Jawbone's trackerless Up app syncs with Apple Health, other fitness services
As it promised mere weeks ago, Jawbone has launched a new version of Up for iOS that syncs data from numerous health services and doesn't require its own tracker. Confusingly, the Jawbone app which d...
Google Capital Makes First China Investment, Backs InnoLight
The firm, along with Chinese venture firm Lightspeed China Partners, co-led a Series C round totaling $38 million …
Cisco adds 30 companies to Intercloud initiative, commits $1B to loan to buyers of its gear
Thirty Companies Buy Into Cisco's ACI-Dependent Cloud of Clouds — Cisco has secured a lot of new partners in its $1 billion initiative to build a Cisco cloud of clouds, a global network …
eMusic will no longer offer songs from big labels, focusing only on indies starting Oct. 1
EMusic Returns to Indie Roots Amid Shift in Online Market — EMusic, a pioneering digital music store that has struggled to find its place in the rapidly shifting online market, has changed direction...
Apple poaches Visa's NFC payments expert to expand Apple Pay in Europe
Apple Pay, the new mobile payments system that unshackles iPhone users their wallets - will only be available in the U.S. when it launches next month, but Apple's is already hiring a team to expand it...
Adobe's Creative Cloud apps coming to Chromebooks, starting with an in-browser, beta version of Photoshop for US-based educational customers
Adobe brings Creative Cloud to Chromebooks starting w/ ‘Project Photoshop Streaming’ beta — Google announced a new partnership with Adobe today …
HP Starts Shipping 64-bit ARM Servers
Nearly three years after HP first introduced project Moonshot and showed a prototype Redstone platform, a server based on an ARM Server-on-Chip by now-bankrupt Calxeda, the company announced on Monday...
SoftBank, DreamWorks Animation Talks Cool
Two Sides Still Could Renew Talks or Agree on a Content Partnership — SoftBank Corp.'s discussions to acquire DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. have cooled, according to people familiar with the matter,...
Zalando Worth $6.8 Billion After Pricing IPO At More Than $27 A Share
Zalando, Europe's largest online-only fashion retailer priced shares on Monday at $27.28 (21.50 Euros) for its upcoming initial public offering, valuing itself at $6.8 billion (5.3 billion Euros) acco...
Chartbeat gets certified to measure attention, tries to move advertising away from clicks and pageviews
Web analytics firm Chartbeat says it is the first to be certified by the Media Ratings Council for a new way of measuring the actual attention of readers, as part of a move to get publishers …