Apple now selling SIM-free unlocked iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the US, from $649
As we reported yesterday, Apple is now selling contract-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in retail stores and online. Following historic pattern, the 16 GB base model iPhone 6 costs $649 with higher t...
Sources: Verizon approached AOL about possible acquisition or joint venture to strengthen mobile-video offerings
Verizon Said to Approach AOL About Possible Takeover or Venture — Verizon Communications Inc. has approached AOL Inc. (AOL) about a potential acquisition or joint venture …
Sony announces new high fidelity Walkman NW-ZX2 with 128GB onboard storage running Android 4.2, coming spring for $1.2K
This is the new Sony Walkman — All signs pointed to a new Sony Walkman (literally) at CES 2015, and the signs didn't lie. The new Walkman ZX2 is real …
FBI says search warrants not needed to use “stingrays” in public places
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the position that court warrants are not required when deploying cell-site simulators in public places. Nicknamed “stingrays,” the devices are decoy cell...
Amazon executes sweeping reorganization of hardware group Lab126 following Fire Phone flop
Following Fire Phone Flop, Big Changes At Amazon's Lab126 — In recent months, a string of departures and managerial changes has hit Amazon's Lab126, the company's Silicon Valley-based R&D group …
Glassdoor Closes $70M Funding Round Led By Google Capital And Tiger Global
Glassdoor, the site that lets employees rate their companies' work environment and anonymously disclose their salary information, today announced that it has raised a $70 million funding round led by ...
CES 2015: Lenovo unveils Yoga tablets, laptops, and new pen technology
Summary:Lenovo intends to continue riding its Yoga line of tablets and laptops, and launched a Yoga Tablet 2 with a strange feature, along with the Yoga 3 and ThinkPad Yoga laptops. — The Yoga line ...
Bitstamp confirms exchange hacked, has lost less than 19K bitcoins worth about $5M
Bitstamp exchange hacked, $5M worth of bitcoin stolen — The European bitcoin exchange suspends its service after it was hacked, ZDNet can confirm. Less than 19,000 bitcoins were stolen from an oper...
Metrics based on a single number, like MAU, are a poor proxy for value for Internet companies
A mile wide, an inch deep — I was recently quoted as saying, “I don't give a s**t” if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read the article you'll note there's a big “if” before my not giv...
Razer OSVR: an Android-based open source VR platform with a $199 dev kit headset
Razer introduces OSVR, the ‘Android of virtual reality’ — OSVR takes a shot at unifying the world of virtual reality — For a year or more after the Oculus Rift got people talking about virtual rea...
Samsung updates SmartThings Hub, unveils subscription home monitoring service, coming April 2015
Samsung unveils next-gen smart home hub and monitoring service — Looks like you didn't have to wait long to see what Samsung would do in the smart home world after acquiring SmartThings …
CarPlay and Android Auto will be in Volkswagen cars this year
At CES this week, Volkswagen finally announced its plans for Apple's CarPlay and Google's Android Auto: both will be available later this year. The technologies will work on VW's MIB II dash electron...
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, most legally-downloaded BitTorrent artist in 2014, may have made up to $20M with BitTorrent Bundles
Thom Yorke made as much as $20M from his BitTorrent experiment — Credit: Nikola Spasenoski / Shutterstock.com — Credit: Nikola Spasenoski / Shutterstock.com
As Fire Phone product manager, Jeff Bezos insisted Lab126 build a premium phone and include useless Dynamic Perspective feature in attempt to compete with Apple
The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon's Future — “What the hell happened?”
Moonpig API vulnerability exposed data of 3M customers for 17 months
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Historical perspective on the notion that Apple has reached a peak of bugginess or that its marketing is prevailing
The Functional High Ground — Marco Arment laments his perception that Apple's software quality is in such a rapid decline that the company has “completely lost the functional high ground.”
HTC Q4 beats analyst estimates, posts first sales growth in three years
HTC Posts First Sales Growth in 3 Years on New Models — HTC Corp. (2498) posted its first quarterly revenue growth in more than three years as new mid-range handsets helped offset competition from h...
Hands-on: Alcatel's Watch is a cross-platform smartwatch for the budget conscious
LAS VEGAS—It seems like smartwatches are all you hear about anymore, but it's really a young product category, and not terribly popular in the larger scheme of things. One of the reasons you don't se...
Key wireless charging groups A4WP, PMA agree to merge
The alliance should help bring a little bit of clarity to the fragmented world of wireless charging technologies. — Powermat technology, pushed by the PMA, is already available at select Starbucks. ...
Razer Unveils Its $100 Android-Powered Gaming Console, Razer Forge TV
Earlier this year, high-end gaming tech company Razer announced at Google I/O that it would be soon be making its first foray into Android-based gaming consoles. Today at CES, that device made its pu...
HP delivers workstations on the go with thin-and-light Zbook laptops
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Mark Zuckerberg's New Book Club Sold Out Its First Title On Amazon
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Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificates to block in-flight YouTube streaming, says no user info collected
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Qualcomm and LIFX partner up for smart lighting reference design
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Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces
Facebook buys IoT speech recognition firm Wit.ai Seth Fiegerman / Mashable : Facebook buys Wit.ai, a speech recognition startup Anu Passary / Tech Times : Facebook Acquires Voice Recognition Firm Wit....
Intel Turns Off Russian Forums, Blogs & Comments In Response To Russian Blogging Law
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TapSense announces platform for contextual ads on Apple Watch as developers scramble to deliver ads through Watch SDK
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Samsung announces portable SSD T1 drives with up to 450/MB transfer rate; 250GB for $180, 500GB for $300, and 1TB for $600, coming later this month
blazing fast, smaller than a business card Chris Mellor / The Register : Samsung revs flashy 1TB road warrior (then crawls away) Agam Shah / PC World : External hard drives? Pfah! Samsung just launche...
FCC launches new complaints site after old site crumbled under load of net neutrality comments
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Yahoo Mail mobile app now tracks packages on iOS
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat :
Samsung is adding Slingbox-like features to its new smart TVs
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Asus announces Transformer Book Chi family of Surface-like Windows 8.1 tablets that start at $300
Hayden Dingman / PC World :
Lenovo enters the smart fitness band game with e-ink, water-resistant Vibe Band VB10
Scott Stein / CNET :
ZTE Grand Max X Plus prepaid smartphone with 6-inch display, 4G LTE, 5 megapixel front facing camera coming to Cricket this week for $200 off-contract
Michael Kan / Computerworld :
Panasonic will release Firefox OS TVs later this spring
Kwame Opam / The Verge :
AT&T is the first US carrier to support WebRTC
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