HTC introduces Desire Eye, with highest resolution front-facing camera on a smartphone, 13MP front and back
HTC's Desire Eye wants to be the king of selfies — The Desire Eye has the most powerful front-facing camera ever put on a smartphone — It's no secret that taking selfies …
'It's been way too long': Apple sends out invites for Thursday, October 16th iPad & Mac event
It's happening: Apple has just announced a keynote address for Thursday, October 16th to take place at the Town Hall auditorium on its Infinite Loop Campus in Cupertino, California.
A sampler of Slack group names at major tech companies, obtained through the service's dubious usability “feature”
Slack Is Letting Anyone Peek at Their Competitors — Few pieces of corporate software have earned so many fans so quickly as Slack, which is basically a sophisticated chat room for businesses.
Can C.E.O. Satya Nadella Save Microsoft?
The Empire Reboots — Over the last decade, as the biggest force in tech history hurtled toward irrelevance (albeit lucratively), a few blamed Microsoft' s woes on founder Bill Gates, while most poin...
Subscriber-supported magazine app The Magazine will produce its last issue Dec. 17
Last Issue Is December 17, 2014 — Hello, readers, The Magazine will stop publishing its every-other-week issues on December 17, 2014, cancel all outstanding subscriptions, and automatically provide ...
Twitter News Head Vivian Schiller Out in Media Unit Consolidation
Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec who Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. — Adam Sharp will now be in charge of both news and gove...
AT&T Pays $105 Million to Settle Mobile Cramming Charges
AT&T agreed to pay $105 million to settle claims that it allowed third-party companies to bill subscribers for millions of dollars in unauthorized charges, federal and state law enforcement officials ...
Apple says it was surprised by the bankruptcy filing of sapphire supplier GT Advanced; sources say GT didn't meet Apple's technical milestones
Apple Surprised by Sapphire Partner GT Advanced's Bankruptcy Filing — iPhone Maker Says It Will Work With State and Local Officials to Consider Next Steps
Google Adds Custom Pirate Bay Search With Autocomplete
The entertainment industries have gone head to head with Google in recent months, demanding tougher anti-piracy measures from the search engine. — According to the RIAA, MPAA and others, Google is m...
iOS 8 adoption rates stagnating is mainly about lack of space for 5GB OTA update, not trust
Note to Self: It's the Storage Space, Stupid — Last night I speculated that the slow uptake of iOS 8 was about people not trusting Apple with iOS software updates — too many bugs …
Surging Mac sales put Apple among top five global PC vendors for first time, IDC says
The Macintosh may have posted its strongest worldwide market share yet last quarter, according to the latest estimates from IDC, which place Apple among the top five global PC vendors for the first ti...
Droid Turbo details leak in 73-page guide: 5.2" display, 21MP camera, wireless charging, more
Motorola Droid Turbo Breaks Cover In Full Guide - 5.2" Display, 21MP Camera, Wireless Charging, And More — Thanks to MotoFirmware.com, Motorola's Droid Turbo has just broken cover …
Nokia's HERE maps is finally available for Android, kicking off with Samsung Galaxy phones
Nokia has launched a beta version of its HERE maps and navigation app in the Samsung Galaxy Apps store, giving the smartphone maker a viable alternative to the wildly popular Google Maps.
Google experimented with split-screen feature for Android late last year
An Exclusive Look At Google's Early Multi-Window Explorations For Android — One of Samsung's claims to fame is a feature meant to improve productivity on mobile devices. One that users of stock And...
Website creation service Squarespace updates with live preview editing, Getty integration
This Is The New Squarespace — Squarespace has just announced a brand new version of its product called Squarespace 7. — Obviously, the interface of the service (which gives users a full suite …
Apple opens the door for HomeKit accessory makers w/ finalized MFi specs
Apple has now finalized and published specifications for HomeKit through its Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) licensing program. The finalized specifications, which allow accessory makers to start bui...
Cisco Is Shuffling 25,000 Employees Around In A Massive Reorg
Resumes are flying out of Cisco like so many owls in a Harry Potter movie, sources in the Valley are telling us. — A huge reorganization of Cisco's routing and switching engineering business has bee...
Confirmed: Truecaller Scores $60 Million In Series C From KPCB, Atomico, And Sequoia
Truecaller has just announced the raise of a $60 million in Series C led by Atomico, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Sequoia Capital. — As you might have noticed, TechCrunch's Ingrid Lunden tr...
Snowball Debuts A Unified Inbox For All Your Messaging Apps
A new mobile application called Snowball, launching today, is going to give iPhone users Android envy. The app serves as a universal inbox for your many mobile messaging clients, including Facebook M...
Teens ‘tepid’ on Apple Watch as iPhone and iPad steal Android marketshare
According to a recent survey conducted by Piper Jaffray, U.S. teens show steadily increasing demand for iPhone and iPad, but are ho-hum on the prospect of Apple's upcoming Apple Watch.
Google mobile app can now surface your past and upcoming bills from your Gmail account
Google today updated its main Android and iOS with support for surfacing past and upcoming bills. If you have the payment due date and amount in your Gmail account, the Google mobile app will find it...
State of Bitcoin Q3 2014: Ecosystem Maturing Amid Price Pressure
We are pleased to release our latest quarterly State of Bitcoin update. — This article will run through some of its key findings in the new report, which focuses on data and events in the third quar...