'iPad Air 2′ and 'iPad mini 3′ with Touch ID & Burst Mode confirmed, show up early in iTunes
Apple's iTunes Store has just made a little bit of a slip-up (and with perfect uncanny timing): screenshots for the iOS 8.1 iPad user guide have just appeared within iBooks and include Apple's upcomin...
The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her. She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved vi...
HBO will offer a stand-alone streaming service in 2015
HBO Says Web Subscriptions Coming in 2015 — HBO says it's finally ready: Sometime in the next year the pay TV service will be selling a Web-only offering. — HBO CEO Richard Plepler, speaking at an...
Nexus 6: 6" Quad HD display, Snapdragon 805 CPU, 13 megapixel rear camera, turbo charger gives 6 hours of battery in 15 mins
Google's Nexus 6 is a giant phablet designed for Android Lollipop — Google is today introducing the Nexus 6, the latest in its line of smartphones designed …
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 review: the best big-screen phone you can buy right now
What began in 2011 as a brand-new phone category has flourished into one of the most popular in the world. Smartphones with big screens (phablets, to some) are now ubiquitous, but it all started with...
Apple Plans to Stop Selling Fitbit Devices in Stores
Apple may soon stop selling the popular Fitbit devices, as it clears the way for its own wearable technology product set to launch sometime next year, according to sources. — It's unclear exactly wh...
Qualcomm buys Bluetooth and GPS chip maker CSR for $2.5B
Qualcomm announced that it has agreed to acquire chip maker CSR for $2.5 billion in cash as part of its continuing strategy to dominate the electronics in mobile devices. — San Diego, Calif.-based Q...
Docker container support coming to Microsoft's next Windows Server release
Summary: Microsoft is building new container technologies into the next Windows Server release, enabling Dockerized applications to run on Windows Server on-premises or on Azure. — Docker container ...
Google Play downloads now exceed Apple's App Store by 60 percent, but iOS apps still make more money
According to the latest figures from App Annie's quarterly market reports, app downloads from the Google Play store outstripped downloads from the iOS App Store by around 60 percent in comparison to t...
Leaked: Fitbit Charge, like Force but without nickel, and Charge HD with heart rate monitoring
Exclusive: Fitbit Charge and Charge HR Images and Full Features List — After earlier reports that Fitbit may be working on two new activity trackers, a tipster has sent us what appears …
NY state says bitcoin software developers don't need license
(Reuters) - New York will not require digital currency software developers to obtain a “BitLicense” to operate in the state, said Benjamin Lawksy, superintendent of financial services for the state of...
EBay Beats The Street On Sales EPS Of $0.68, Misses On Sales Of $4.35B
E-commerce giant EBay, soon to be split into two businesses, today reported its third-quarter earnings. The company reported revenues of $4.4 billion (or, $4.353 billion, to be exact), growing 12% on...
Android Wear Notifications Coming to Glass This Week
As Google first promised all the way back at Google I/O, Android Wear notifications will arrive on Google Glass this week. — Google is officially calling this “Notification Sync on Glass.” It's com...
Netflix Misses Sub-Growth Targets, Adding 980,000 U.S. Streaming Customers
Netflix added 3.02 million overall streaming customers for the third quarter of 2014 — below its previous projections of 3.69 million for the period, as both U.S. and international growth failed to me...
Polish startup Brainly raises $9m to make a major push into the US with its social learning platform
Brainly, the Polish edtech startup that we recently paid a visit, has closed a $9 million round from lead General Catalyst Partners, Point Nine Capital and Runa Capital.
Thismoment Raises $17.6M To Help Big Brands Tap Into User-Generated Content
Thismoment, a company that helps businesses collect user-generated content for their own marketing efforts, is announcing that it has raised $17.6 million in Series D funding. — The company says it ...
Gett Now Pays Drivers Over Twice As Much As Uber
Offering $10 rides anywhere in Manhattan brought in the users. Now they need the drivers. — When Gett Taxi, the dark horse competition in New York for Uber and Lyft, started offering a flat rate of...
Disney Accelerator program invests in 10 tech startups
Ten companies, 15 weeks and $120,000. Three components of Disney Accelerator, a mentorship and investment program designed for tech startups with a focus on media and entertainment. — The program b...
Alipay to U.S. Retailers: Let Us Be Your One-Stop Shop for Selling Into China
Alipay, China's popular online payments service, wants a piece of the U.S. e-commerce market and is using its close ties with Alibaba to pitch itself as the ideal conduit between American retailers an...
Sonos Boost, a high-power signal amplifier, now available for $99
Sonos Boost promises to eliminate network dead spots on a Sonos network — If you own a Sonos multi-room audio system but have trouble with dead spots, Sonos has good news for you: The all-new Sonos ...
Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, The Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App
If you're even kind of active on reddit, you probably know of Alien Blue. As far as perusing reddit on iOS goes, it's pretty much the undisputed champ. — It seems reddit would agree.
will.i.am introduces Puls cuff with voice control, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, more
Will.i.am introduces the Puls smartwatch — When you think wearables you don't usually think international superstar or Salesforce. Push aside that old way of thinking aside …
Christian Bale in talks to play Steve Jobs in Sony's new movie “Jobs”
Christian Bale to Play Steve Jobs in New Movie — Oscar-winner Christian Bale, who has played Batman and Moses, is about to take on another iconic figure: Steve Jobs. — Sources confirm the actor …
Nexus 6 Coming to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular in November
Now that the Nexus 6 is official and all details are known, you probably want to know when and where you can get one, right? For the first time in the history of a Nexus device, the phone should be e...
HBO's taking on Netflix like never before. But now they'll share the same headaches, too.
HBO is finally caving to consumer pressure and will be offering its streaming service, HBO Go, as a standalone subscription next year. This is a huge deal for cord-cutters, people …
HP: webOS cloud services, App Catalog to shut down on January 15
Earlier this month, we learned that LG may be working on a new webOS SmartWatch, which would be the first new mobile webOS product in quite some time. Unfortunately, now we have a bit of bad webOS ne...