The Interview sees over 1.5M estimated torrent downloads in first two days of availability, comparable to popular blockbusters
The Interview Is A Pirate Hit With 200k Downloads (Updated) — Facing a “terrorist” threat theaters all around the U.S. backed away from showing The Interview last week.
North Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, calls Obama a ‘monkey’
(Reuters) - North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a “monkey” as it blamed Washington Saturday for Internet outages that it has experienced amid a confrontation with the United States over the...
NSA reports show agency may have violated laws by unauthorized surveillance of Americans for over a decade
U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans — The National Security Agency today released reports on intelligence collection that may have violated the law …
Tor network flooded with new relays by Lizard Squad, group allegedly behind Xbox Live and PSN attacks
Hackers allegedly behind Xbox and PlayStation network shutdown set sights on Tor — The group that allegedly took down Microsoft and Sony's gaming networks now says it's set its sights on a new targe...
Amazon says 10M people tried Prime, 60% of customers shopped from a mobile device this holiday season
Amazon says 10 million new customers tried Prime over the holidays — Here's what everyone bought during the holiday shopping rush — Pushing the cost of Amazon Prime up to $99 annually …
Kodak-branded Android smartphone to launch in January at CES; tablet, camera, 4G handset will come later in year
Kodak is launching a line of Android smartphones in 2015 — Kodak has announced that it's licensing its name to a range of mobile devices that make it easier to print and share images.
Immigration reform is crucial to keeping the US a tech superpower, as 95% of great programmers reside outside the US
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In — American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US.
Facebook's Year in Review suggestions may in some cases be inadvertently tactless and hurtful
Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty — I didn't go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it. In this case, the designers and program...
IRS demands Ballmer, other Microsoft leaders testify in corporate tax audit
The Internal Revenue Service has sued former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and a slate of other former and current executives, seeking to compel them to testify in a long-running investigation into how ...
Mozilla and Japan's KDDI launch Fx0, the first Firefox OS phone with 4G LTE, NFC; made by LG, costs about $420
Mozilla Firefox OS-powered transparent smartphone GSMArena.com : LG Fx0 is a transparent phone running Firefox OS Rex Santus / Mashable : Latest Firefox phone has transparent shell Neil McAllister / T...
The Open Bay helps launch 372 ‘copies’ of The Pirate Bay in a week, becomes GitHub's most popular project
isoHunt, the group now best known for launching The Old Pirate Bay, has shared an update a week after debuting The Open Bay. The Pirate Bay, the most popular file sharing website on the planet … Than...
IBM: mobile made up 34.8% of total Christmas Day online sales, an increase of 20.4% YoY; iOS accounted for 27%, nearly 4x Android
IBM: Christmas online sales up 8.3%, iOS numbers nearly quadruple Android's — Christmas is a religious and cultural celebration for billions of people …
Samsung releases Look At Me, an Android app that trains autistic children to make eye contact
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Facebook, Twitter, and Google resist Russian regulator's orders to remove information on rally supporting opposition leader Navalny
U.S. Tech Firms Face Showdown With Russian Censors — Facebook, Twitter, Google Wrestle With Kremlin Orders to Erase Content
Judge denies Facebook's request to dismiss class action lawsuit over private message scanning to target ads
Are They Going Through Your Messages? Sarah Winters / Wall Street Hedge : Facebook lands in legal trouble for scanning contents of users' messages Iain Thomson / The Register : Judge kills Facebook's ...
NFL to post game highlights and other video clips on Facebook with Verizon Wireless ads, share ad revenues with Facebook
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal :
FTC charges data broker LeapLab with selling consumers' financial details to fraudsters
Natasha Singer / New York Times :
Delhi High Court lifts ban on sale of OnePlus handsets
Gulveen Aulakh / The Economic Times :
Google Bars Developers From Including User Testimonials In Play Store App Descriptions
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police :
Withings Activité review: too expensive for mass market at $450, but will appeal to watch enthusiasts
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
Indian carrier Airtel to charge prepaid customers more for VoIP than for other data services, a move seen as violating net neutrality
The Economic Times : Tweets: @redditindia and @akrgsrni Tweets: Reddit India / @redditindia : #ChindiChor @airtelindia breaking net neutrality: Will charge extra for VoIP services on 2G and 3G. Let's...
Huawei's low cost Honor smartphone unit sales up to 20M from 1M in one year after replicating Xiaomi's online strategy
Gerry Shih / Reuters :
Preparing for IPO, Alibaba removed 90M counterfeit goods from its marketplaces during the first 9 months of 2014
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg :
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.