Jony Ive talks about his new role as Apple's chief design officer as he relinquishes day-to-day management duties to Richard Howarth and Alan Dye
When Stephen Fry met Jony Ive: the self-confessed tech geek talks to Apple's newly promoted chief design officer
Tim Cook memo: Jony Ive to remain responsible for overall design, Alan Dye moves to VP of UI design, Richard Howarth to VP of industrial design, starting July 1
Jony Ive promoted to ‘Chief Design Officer,’ handing off managerial duties July 1st [Tim Cook Memo] — Alan Dye, Jony Ive, and Richard Howarth
Microsoft's bringing Cortana to iPhone and Android, announces Phone Companion app for Windows 10, which helps automatically sync your smartphone with your PC
Your Windows 10 PC will love all the devices you own — Whether it's a 3-year-old printer or projecting to your brand new TV with Miracast …
Charter to acquire Time Warner Cable for $55B in cash and stock, including debt, valuing TWC at $78.7B, also buys Bright House for $10.4B
It's Official: Charter to Acquire Time Warner Cable in Deal Valued at $78.7 Billion — Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Media owns …
Source: two new Nexus phones coming this year - 5.2" LG Angler and 5.7" Huawei Bullhead, no new Nexus tablet
[Rumor] No Nexus Tablet In 2015, But Two Phones—A 5.2-Inch LG (Code Name Angler) And A 5.7-Inch Huawei (Code Name Bullhead) — The Nexus 6 was a break from the past …
iOS 9 supports ‘iPhone 6S’ Force Touch, may enhance iMessage, Keyboard & Apple Pay
Some of iOS 9's more important planned enhancements include split-screen apps on iPads, a new Home app for controlling HomeKit accessories, a new system-wide UI font, a mass transit directions service...
Twitter brings live-streaming app Periscope to Android
Periscope, the promising live-streaming app owned by Twitter, arrives on Android today. Like its cousin on iOS, which debuted two months ago to the day, Periscope for Android lets you watch and recor...
Sources: Twitter has held talks to acquire Flipboard in an all-stock deal valued at over $1B, but talks are now stalled
Twitter Has Held Talks to Acquire Flipboard — Twitter has been engaged in an ongoing series of talks to acquire Flipboard, according to multiple sources with knowledge …
Sony rebrands Xperia Z4 as Xperia Z3+ for global launch in June with few iterative upgrades
Sony's flagship Xperia Z4 goes global with the humbler title of Z3+ — The new flagship phone for Sony is the Xperia Z4. In Japan. For the rest of the world, that very same phone will be known …
EMC expands cloud push with $1.2 billion buy of Virtustream
Joe Tucci is at it again. The longtime EMC chief executive and chairman has made another purchase, buying Virtustream, an enterprise-oriented cloud computing company, for $1.2 billion in cash.
Security researchers say mobile and wearable devices can be tracked by monitoring Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signal transmissions
Sniffing and tracking wearable tech and smartphones — Researchers at Context Information Security have demonstrated how easy it is to monitor …
Snapchat claims 60% of smartphone owners age 13-34 in the US are active users, says they watch 2B videos a day on the service
Evan Spiegel Reveals Plan to Turn Snapchat Into a Real Business … Evan Spiegel begins a conversation in the offices of his startup, Snapchat …
Fove's VR headset, expected to arrive Spring 2016, aims to use eye-tracking to focus rendering on your center of vision, reducing processing demands
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Audi will use Baidu's CarLife smartphone integration technology, develop country specific LTE module with Huawei for its cars in China
Is there a path to 60 for USA Freedom? U-Jin Lee / TheStreet.com : One Reason Baidu (BIDU) Stock is Climbing Today Sam McEachern / Motrolix : Audi To Offer Baidu CarLife In Vehicles For Chinese Smartp...
Computing Power Up a Trillion Fold in 60 Years. Search Remains Unchanged.
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Ford launches pay-per-minute GoDrive carsharing service in London
Ben Woods / The Next Web :
An anecdotal account of the technology landscape in Cuba before thawing relations with the US
Matt Stempeck / The Daily Dot :
Alarm.com, a security and home automation cloud service provider with 2.3M customers, files for $75M IPO
Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune :
French supermarket installs Philips LEDs that communicate with in-store navigation app via front-facing camera
Daniel Cooper / Engadget :
How Firefox OS for mobile devices got started, developed carrier and vendor partnerships, and then was blindsided by cheap Android phones
George Anders / MIT Technology Review :
Philip Zimmermann moves his mobile encryption startup Silent Circle from US to Switzerland to avoid surveillance
Juliette Garside / Guardian :
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